I need a fake date. She needs my late-night expertise. Now, if we can just keep our hands off each other… completely.
After all, just look how she’s kept her lips sealed about the hot, multi-O night we spent together. Yes, just look at those sexy lips.
In any case, we only fell off the wagon once, and it was months ago. I’m sure we can make it through these weddings without banging each other in the limo.
Or can we?
INSTANT GRATIFICATION is a sexy, standalone romantic comedy in the Always Satisfied series of standalones! The series includes SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, INSTANT GRATIFICATION and OVERNIGHT SERVICE and they can be read in any order.
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This book left me gratified! 5 stars
I love Lauren Blakely rom-coms, and this book gave me such gratification! I laughed, I smiled, I swooned, so it had everything I love in a rom-com! Jason and Truly were magic together, even when they were stubborn and I wanted to slap them upside the head! I love that Truly was a strong woman with her own business and had strong relationships with her brother and friends. Jason really was the modern gentleman but a sexy beast in the bedroom. Like I said, they were magic together. I definitely recommend this book if you like a fun, quick, sexy read that will leave you gratified!
I received a copy of this ebook from Candi Kane PR for my honest review.
Yet another hit from Lauren Blakely! You will swoon and fall for Jason, and his accent, and you will love Truly! 5 bright stars for this one!
Meet Jason, best man for hire! He’s just doing this to help put his sister thru med school, along with doing guest spots on his buddy’s pod cast, as well as writing a blog to help gentlemen be more gentlemen! Enter his best friend Malone, and yes Malone’s sister Truly. Jason & Truly had one slip up one night after a snowboarding trip, and they vow it will never happen again. When Jason needs a plus one for one of his best man gigs, and his regular date can’t do it anymore, he asks Truly for her assistance, in return, he will help her do research for a new bar idea she’s trying to pitch to investors.
Follow along as their story unfolds, in true hot Lauren’s writing. You will swoon, fall in love and beg for your very own Jason! Grab this one asap!
**I voluntarily read an early copy of this title in exchange for an honest review**
Instant Gratification is a both a friends-to-lovers romance and a best friend’s little sister romance and it’s a good one! It’s filled with the playful, flirty banter for which Lauren Blakely is known, but she definitely made our couple work for it!
Jason Reynolds is a Brit who is known as “The Modern Gentleman of New York”due to the advice he gives through his podcast appearances and he has also started a successful “Best Man for Hire” business as well. He’s one of the best friends and brothers that anyone could ask for and he’s been carrying a torch for his best friend, Malone’s little sister, Truly for some time.
Truly Goodman is the owner of The Gin Joint and she’s focused on getting the funding to expand to another themed bar. She’s been extremely successful, but the one thing she truly wants is her twin brother’s best friend, but she knows that isn’t the best decision.
After an encounter at a wedding several months before, these two try valiantly to keep things in the friend zone, but with chemistry as palpable as theirs is it even possible or is it a total pipe dream?
I enjoyed this witty tale and it was great that we also got to catch up with some other old friends as we made our way through this one. Looking forward to what Lauren Blakely has in store for us next!
Another great Lauren Blakely book!
Oh how i love books the interconnect so you see previous characters and how their all getting on with their lives.
Jason and Truly was absolutely great! They was the master of keeping it just friends until they wasn’t. They both had their minds set on how they wanted things to go but everyone knows love waits for no man. You can’t plan love.
Jason’s job is a little strange but if it works it works. Jason and Truly have that friendship that they have all that chemistry crackling around them but they try to ignore it.
Truly was great, knew what she wanted and she was stopping at nothing till she had it.
This was a really good book, keeps you interested.
Get ready to fall in love with Jason!
This is the 2nd book in the Always Satisfied series and boy does it satisfy! This is the story of Malone’s twin sister Truly and his best bud Jason.
The chemistry between these two is hot. They had one night together a few months ago and they swore the next morning that they were going to just stay in the friend zone. Throughout this whole book you could just tell that these two were meant for each other. The way that they flirted and bantered with each other just makes you smile. And boy when Jason turns on the charm and the sex appeal, I have no idea how Truly held out as long as she did.
If you love to read friends to lovers stories, then this is one that you don’t want to miss out on. You’ll also get to catch up on some of the other couples from other stories and you’ll love how they each had a comment about Truly and Jason’s relationship. This is a wonderfully written story and it will make you laugh at times and also make your heart beat a little faster as well.
Jason Reynolds and Truly Goodman are our love interests in this book which has a friends-to-lovers and forbidden romance theme. We were introduced to them in Satisfaction Guaranteed as Malone, the hero of that story, is the twin brother of the heroine, Truly, in Instant Gratification. I was so happy to read Malone, a veterinarian, and his fiancé, Sloan, appeared in this, as did Nick and Harper from Mr. O (Nick, Truly and Malone are cousins).
As you can tell, I am a big fan of Lauren Blakely and have read every one of her books. I love her take on rom-coms and re-visiting old friends I met in her earlier tales. Her writing style is unique, witty, and engaging, and she always writes characters I admire and would want to be friends with in real life. You understand how they are feeling and why, and are always on a journey with them as each chapter progresses.
In Instant Gratification, which is a stand-alone, Truly owns her own bar/restaurant in New York which Malone often performs in as a lounge singer. I love how business savvy, determined, and independent she is, all while still making time to spend with her brother’s best friend, Jason, a sext Brit, who happens to be her good friend as well. They have such a wonderful, fun relationship, and an obvious emotional and physical connection with insane chemistry!
I love their support of one another, their banter, and how easily they mesh and get along. They acted on their feelings only once, but decided to keep things platonic as to not risk a fall out if they were to date and it not work out. The slow burn of them being intimate again kept me up all night turning the pages! Jason is such a flirt all tied up in one smokin’ hot package!
Jason had an interesting career hosting his own “gentlemen’s blog,” which led him to stints on a radio show as a contributor. I liked how classy he was in the streets and a dirty talker in the sheets! He looked out for his younger sister, Abby, in medical school in London, his hometown, and took on even more work as a “Best Man” for hire to help support her financially. Josh is a hero I admire in every way.
He was smart, sensitive, caring, loyal, entertaining, and a good friend and brother.
During his stints as a fake best man, he started to take Truly as his plus one, and that’s when things really started to heat up! Lauren can write sexy times like no other. You will blush even if you are reading alone!
This book will keep you on your toes at all times because during his side gigs, you will be introduced to other couples such as Chip and Ashley, Gavin and Savannah, Enzo and Valerie, and Amelia and someone she just met. Through her business as a bar owner, we also got to meet Marcus, a bartender turned podcaster, and Coco, a restaurant reviewer.
Josh, a sports agent and friend of Jason’s, and Haven, his nemeses, are also featured in Instant Gratification and have an upcoming book of their own in November 2019, Overnight Service, which I can’t wait to read!
If you love love, then Instant Gratification is a must read! It has all the feels and will have you routing for Jason and Truly to have their own HEA!
Absolutely loved instant gratification! Truly and Jason tried to keep away from temptation but the attraction made that difficult! i also love how Lauren Blakely will incorporate her other books into her new books so we get to see what other characters are up to.
I had trouble putting this book down! i think some parts were drawn out but i would read again!
Instant Gratification by Lauren Blakely
Instant Gratification follows on nicely from Satisfaction Guaranteed and is the story of Malone’s sister, Truly and his best friend, Jason. Jason and Truly had an epic one-nighter which, for the sake of friendship (plus other commitments) they’ve agreed to never repeat again. However, being in each other’s sphere constantly, the flirting and suggestiveness seldom – if ever! – abates until one night, one wedding, they simply snap. They go on to agree to a friends with bennies setup even though they both want more but just won’t admit to it.
This was a great, enjoyable read filled with plenty of banter and sexual tension to keep us flipping those pages. We got to know Jason quite well as the story was predominantly told in his POV with some creative insight into Truly thrown in. I loved the various relationships we got to explore here: between siblings, friends, and more. The fact that we got to catch up with some old friends/characters made this read even more enjoyable.
*I voluntarily read an early copy of this book.
**Reviewed by Melinda for Joandisalovebooks Blog.
Instant Gratification was a fun and sexy friends to lovers/best friend’s sister romcom! Readers were first introduced to our heroine and hero (Truly and Jason) in Satisfaction Guaranteed, but this one can definitely be enjoyed as a standalone.
Lauren Blakely really makes our hero and heroine work for it in this one and I loved their playful banter and back and forth. The build up really set the stage for the fireworks that explode once these two give in to the connection that they so obviously share. I have to say that Jason’s dirty talk was H-O-T! There isn’t a lot of drama in this one, but I did feel that the will they/won’t they angst was frustrating at times. It felt a little too drawn out for me, but it was worth it in the end.
Truly was a fantastic heroine! I loved her drive and ambition and her relationship with her brother, Malone, was so sweet. Speaking of Malone, it was wonderful to see him (and other previous Lauren Blakely characters) make appearances throughout the book. I love how connected her books and characters are. The epilogues (yes, plural!) were perfect and some seeds were planted for future books. I’m definitely excited for Josh and Haven’s enemies to lovers story next!
3.5-4 stars
*I voluntarily read an advance review copy of this book*
Can we just say that Lauren Blakely is Queen of the Rom-Com.
The question is what do you do when your best friends sister is someone you want to be more than friends with but you don’t want to disrespect the bro-code. That is the dilemma that Jason Reynolds seems to have. A man known around as The Modern Gentleman Of New York, Best Man for Hire and a Fantastic Friend & Brother but what he wants to add to that is making Truly Goodman more than a friend.
Truly Goodman is a successful business woman and Fantastic twin to her brother Malone, a Incredible Friend but what she wants is to put her brother’s best friend in more than the friend zone.
You will watch the two of them go round and round on how to make it work and you will see their friends encourage them being together but what they have to figure out is how to do that and make everyone happy. With every page I turned I couldn’t help smile a little brighter watching this fantastic couple see what everyone else was seeing but what you want them to find is that HEA.
This book has all the feels. Many times when reading a book, you get caught up in the storyline. You can imagine the characters. You feel as if you become part of the book. Like you know these people personally. That’s how this book is. As if you know Jason and Truly. You can feel the sexual chemistry between them. The push and pull of their relationship. You can understand the situation and reasoning. Turning each page to see what will happen…will they finally come to their senses? You know there will be a HEA at the end. But what will happen in between? And if you’ve read some of Lauren’s other books, you’ll love the cameo of some of your other favorites. So settle down with this book, take your time, enjoy the read. Sometimes Instan Gratification is just what you need.
RomCom perfection from the incredible Lauren Blakely! This is a sweet, flirty, charming, sexy and funny friends to lovers story that also has the best friend’s little sister dilemma thrown in for good measure. Jason, the sexy Brit is so swoonworthy, charming and funny. He is also Malone’s best friend. Truly is a sweet, funny, smart businesswoman who owns her own bar, and also happens to be Malone’s sister. Truly and Jason are very good friends and run in the same circles but they have kept themselves firmly in the friend zone, except for that one time. One time it seems rocked their worlds so much that neither has been able to forget. This story is so much fun and amazing, the dialogue incredibly witty, and the sexy times are steamy. Jason and Truly are made for each other!! What more could you ask for? I absolutely loved everything about this book!!!
4.5+ stars
This standalone follows up Satisfaction Guaranteed. This book brings us Malone’s twin sister, Truly and his best friend, Jason. But it also has cameos from other familiar couples and I loved how this new world overlaps with some of the Big Rock world.
Hot Brit alert! Jason Reynolds is a man of many jobs just trying to make a living and help his sister. He does podcasts and articles on being a modern man. But he also has a unique side business of being a groomsman for hire. He is a charismatic, flirty Brit that just oozes sex appeal. But he is adamant that he is not looking for a relationship.
Truly Goodman is Malone’s sister and Jason’s other best friend. But she is also a woman he has been attracted to for a while, and they have acted on it in the past…not that anyone else knows. She owns her own bar and is just a much a work-a-holic as he is. She is funny, smart, ambitious, and no-nonsense.
These two are supposed to be off-limits, but they are so good together. They have common interests, camaraderie, flirty and fun banter, and a boatload of sexual tension. But they keep walking the line of the friend zone, but start slipping off more on more. It is angsty with all the back and forth and fighting their own feelings. But they both have several reasons why they think they should not be any more than friends. But in the heat of the moment sometimes those reasons get a bit blurry. But they also second guess themselves often.
There is so much push and pull…I want it. I need it. I can’t have it. I had it. I can’t have it again. I need to stop wanting it. Now I want it again. But I’m not supposed to want it. But I do still want it…and round and round they go…
This is a sweet, funny, sexy, swoony, and angsty best friend’s sister and friends-to-lovers romance. It is told almost entirely in this transplanted Brit’s point of view with some creative ways to get into Truly’s head. I am sure the audiobook is just going to be that much sexier with his British accent narrating the majority of the story…Holy Moly Swoon!
They both will have to figure out how to let go of their fears and find a balance in their lives, as well as come clean to those around them if they really want a chance at something more. But there is a lot at stake. I really loved these two even when I wanted to shake sense into them or hold an intervention. Some of the people Jason meets along the way also give him new insight into the meaning of true love. And their friends have a lot to say on the matter too. I loved hanging out with old and new friends and seeing the connections. Truly and Jason had such hot chemistry and a great base in friendship. This book made me laugh and smile, but touched my heart too.
Arc provided in exchange for an honest review