Fearless to Love: Instalove Romance (Fairlane Series Book 4)

This book is a great addition to the series. It was fast pace without leaving out a lot of details. I love Dante and lily together. They had great chemistry together.

Fearless to Love is the seventh installment of the Written in the Stars series, each written by a different author. This was the first book I read in the series. It is my second book by this author. I never wanted to put it down. This is Dante and Lily’s story.

Dante Ricci is twenty seven years old and is the owner of a club called Flux. His now ex-partner left him in the lurch so Dante has been working long hours trying to straighten everything out and hire someone new to help take some of the burden off him. It’s after a long night at work when he just couldn’t bring himself to go home to his empty house so instead he went for a drive, ending up in Fairlane outside a bar.

Lily Valenti is twenty four years old and lives by herself just outside of town. Lily is successful in her own right, but still, due to a past bad relationship, struggles a bit with self confidence. She noticed Dante the minute he came in to the bar, but when he asked her for her phone number, she was hesitant.

Sparks flew between them from the first moment they met and it made for a really cute story.

I’m thinking I’m going to have to check out the other novellas in this series of standalones as well.

I received an advance copy of this book. I am voluntarily giving my honest review, and I plan to buy this book when it becomes available.

Dante & Lily… these two were so meant to be together. I loved them with their over the top chemistry. A well written story that will leave you wanting your own Dante.

Fearless to Love is just an amazing read! I’m not a fan of insta-love stories normally but Harlow Layne just made me a huge fan of this one. Dante and Lily were just perfect.

Lily and Dante are opposites on paper but meant to be together. They have this soul deep connection that just jumps off the pages. Harlow Layne just made me fall in love with these two both as individuals and as a couple. Dante is a businessman who was just screwed over by his business partner. Lily works in a bar and has a bit of low self-esteem, thanks to her ex.

I just love Harlow Layne’s writing style. She just made me fall in love with this book and these characters, which is saying something because insta-love is not my jam at all. But Layne wrote a flawless book. This may be a quick read but it didn’t lack anything.

Fearless in Love is a 5 star must read!

Goodness I LOVE this series as a whole! This book did not let me down at all! It is the 7th book in an amazing series. I really love Dante and Lily’s Story and I know everyone else will as well! There story is a roller coaster and I could not put the book down! A must read!

I’m not a huge proponent of insta anything in real life situations, but there is something very swoony and dreamy about it when it happens in romance novels as long as it’s written correctly, of course! Harlow did that with Dante and Lily. It’s a quickish story so the insta of it is even more realistic but by no means was it lacking. Could I have read more of their relationship? Well, yeah! Lol They were cute, fun and sexy! You’d be a fool not to want to read more of that! LOL

This is only my second or maybe third book by this author and I like what I’ve read thus far. She has skills, and I’m looking forward to a lot more from her. I’ve also read all the releases in this multi-author collaboration and they have all been highly entertaining and very well written thus far. The written in the stars concept is a great one for romance readers and I’m looking forward to reading what the other signs have in store for us! Happy reading everyone!

Great read, thoroughly enjoyed the book. The characters had amazing chemistry from beginning to end. Instant feels! I don’t want to give the book away grab the book to see how amazing it is! Received an arc for an honest review.

This book is a fun, fast, and sexy read. Harlow Layne brings her characters in quickly and starts building her world from the first few chapters.

I was intrigued by the series this book is part of. Twelve signs of the Zodiac, twelve different authors, twelve different books. It’s a great premise. Ms. Layne did make a passing reference to her character’s star signs and their compatibility, but it was very minor to the story, almost a throw away line.

Fearless to Love is an instant attraction and Insta lust story that very very quickly moves into insta love. Dante is our male lead. He’s a night club owner trying to dig out from under a mess his business partner left him with. It’s leaving the club barely running with high staff turn over and Dante spending more time working than anything else. He’s bright his sister in to help him, but it’s just barely getting by. Additionally, Franca, his sister is not used to working a full work week. She’s also candidly open and blunt. I liked her character.

Dante meets his soulmate when he decides to visit a bar the next town over. He’s done working for the day, but his empty apartment lacks welcome to him. He finds himself at Rocco’s bar as the bar tenders are dancing on the bar top. The only brunette in the trio catches and holds him. It’s insta lust at that.

The brunette is Lily. She’s our spunky, independent, and becoming confident female lead. An author by trade, Lily will take shifts at Rocco’s to help force her out of the house and into the world. Her best friends work there as well.

Dante introduces himself by ordering a beer and possibly her number. Lily agrees to a speed date right there prior to giving Dante any information. They both feel the attraction and sparks right away, their conversation intrigued them both so Lily relents and gives Dante her number. That’s the last night they spend alone.

The plot is fast paced and has some intriguing items and people included. Characters from other books pop into this one as part of Lily’s close group of friends. I enjoyed seeing the group byplay and their gradual growth and acceptance of Dante in Lily’s life and in theirs. Additionally, Franca will grow on the reader as well. Although she remains blunt to the point of rudeness, and stays disgusted with the amount of work she is doing, she is at heart very protective of Dante. You see her begin to soften as the book reaches conclusion and Franca has accepted Lily into their lives.

The biggest issue I had with the book was the pace. The story has engaging and complex characters. We hear about Dante’s no good business partner, but we never learn what he actually did or how Dante works out the kinks. Lily is written as a well respected and heavily published author. We know that she writes under a pen name and holds her privacy as the largest priority. Additionally she’s coming out of a two year emotionally abusive relationship. She’s slowly growing back into her self and her confidence. Dante helps with that. Lily’s abusive ex makes an appearance or two at crucial moments of the story as well as causes the catalyst that cements Dante’s decision to marry Lily and protect her forever, but these scenes seemed disjointed and the last a bit forced.

I really would have loved to see this novel drawn out a bit more. It would have sat better with me if Lily’s ex played a bigger role in the plot so he wasn’t just here and gone so much. I also would have liked to know more of Lily’s background as the story moves around her inheriting a house on the outlying part of town and not having any family left. We briefly find out a glossed version of Dante’s family, but nothing on Lily’s. The love story itself was well written, but a bit sex heavy. With two complex and well detailed characters I didn’t need all of the can’t keep their hands off each other as much as I craved knowing more about how their lives impacted them and the relationship. That said – the sex was really steamy. Well written. Just one of those books where I would have liked a few less orgasms and more outside world.

Now that I’ve told you all that didn’t work for me, let me also share how I may have placed myself into a corner and share what did work well. This is the first novel of Ms. Layne’s that I’ve read. I expected character overlap from prior books and there was. These characters were introduced well, interacted in a natural flowing way and allowed the reader to feel as if they already knew them. It makes this a true stand alone in a series. Additionally, if may be that Lily’s back story is either covered fully in other of Ms. Layne’s novels or within the Written in the Stars World.

I would leave you with this. Ms. Layne writes a well developed world. Her characters have depth and aren’t flat on the page. Her dialogue is quick, witty, and smart. I would like to read more by her.

I felt that the author had the ability to convey some depth to the personalities of the characters bringing life and likability to every person.
The writing draws you in and keeps you interested until the end.

I was very impressed with how simply and effortlessly this author told this addicting, multi-layered story with well-developed world building and great characters.

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A cute insta-love story with some drama, angst, romance, good friends, a stalker ex, and character that you connect to.
Dante is a twenty-seven-year-old business owner that’s been duped by his ex-business partner. Lilly is out of a bad relationship, helping out a friend at the bar when Dante comes in and it’s an instant connection between them.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.