What Lovers Do was a sweet, yet stress inducing, “just friends,” to best friends, to only friends, to… well you’ll have to read it to find that out. I kind of adored Sophie and Shep. They have a funny meet cute and every day after that Shep is just busting his butt to try to get Sophie to “not” date him, and Sophie is doing everything she can to legitimately not date him. That said the pull between them is just there. There’s just an effortlessness they feel when they are together, and the ease in which they start to “not” fall for one another makes it clear as the reader that they are meant to be. The banter is so humorous and sweet at times. The similarities between them are many, and you can just see their potential future without it even being spelled out on the pages.

Alas Sophie has a ton of loose ends and questionable past life choices that don’t allow her to offer more than just a friendship at that point in time. Cue up the stressful subplot that I swear added extra (pre-mature) gray hair to my head because at times it felt a little TOO real. Also, the fact that Shep is in a sort of weird place post divorce, so it’s just a little chaotic in between their effortless days together.

All that to say that if you’re looking for a romcom, that has a cup of sweet, a dash of heat, and a sprinkle of real deal life, then you’ll enjoy What Lovers Do.