NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lauren Layne’s bestselling Oxford Series continues with the poignant, heartwarming story of New York’s most eligible bachelor, Lincoln Mathis, a man who’s living a lie—until his dream woman takes away the pain. Lincoln Mathis doesn’t hide his reputation as Manhattan’s ultimate playboy. In fact, he cultivates it. But behind every flirtatious smile, each provocative … smile, each provocative quip, there’s a secret that Lincoln’s hiding from even his closest friends—a tragedy from his past that holds his heart quietly captive. Lincoln knows what he wants: someone like Daisy Sinclair, the sassy, off-limits bridesmaid he can’t take his eyes off at his best friend’s wedding. He also knows that she’s everything he can never have.
After a devastating divorce, Daisy doesn’t need anyone to warn her off the charming best man at her sister’s wedding. One look at the breathtakingly hot Lincoln Mathis and she knows that he’s exactly the type of man she should avoid. But when Daisy stumbles upon Lincoln’s secret, she realizes there’s more to the charming playboy than meets the eye. And suddenly Daisy and Lincoln find their lives helplessly entwined in a journey that will either heal their damaged souls . . . or destroy them forever.
Praise for Someone Like You
“Lincoln and Daisy’s tale is expertly crafted, full of wit and heart. Layne is equally adept at writing heartbreaking portrayals of grief and scenes of steamy passion that will get hearts racing. Exemplary contemporary romance.”—Library Journal
Lauren Layne’s New York Times bestselling Oxford Novel series can be read in any order:
IRRESISTIBLY YOURS
I WISH YOU WERE MINE
SOMEONE LIKE YOU
I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE
I THINK I LOVE YOU
Don’t miss any of Lauren Layne’s hot reads:
The Love Unexpectedly series: BLURRED LINES | GOOD GIRL | LOVE STORY | WALK OF SHAME | AN EX FOR CHRISTMAS
The Sex, Love & Stiletto series: AFTER THE KISS | LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH | JUST ONE NIGHT | THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE
The Redemption series: ISN’T SHE LOVELY | BROKEN | CRUSHED
The I Do, I Don’t series: READY TO RUN | RUNAWAY GROOM
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The Oxford series is an spin-off of the series Sex, Love & Stilletto. I mean, seriously, Ms Layne had me at Sex then she went and threw in stilettos. Bam. Done.
The SL&S series is centered around 4 successful-girly-girls-with-smart-mouths and their hot men. I love all 4. The hot-manly-men we meet peppered in SL&S, are over in the Oxford series, plus a few new ones. I love them more. 🙂
This book is #3 in the Oxford series and it’s Lincoln’s story. Waited patiently, not patiently, for this story. Don’t have to say more. You’ll know him well (not his secrets) from the prior books in the series. Overall, good read.
Plenty of character crossover so I’d suggest you read all 7. Start with my girls and work your way to the hotties. Funny stuff, lovable characters and I may or may not have gotten teary eyed at one point in each book but Ms Layne lightens the mood with a little humor.
If you like a good romantic comedy, then these should be right up your alley.
Lauren Layne consistently delivers amazing reads and this book is no exception. Highly recommend.
I Love all of the books I have read by this author! Her characters are real people, and are flawed but lovable. I like how there is a happily ever after in most cases, even though it can be in a future books. They all seem to get a chance for redemption even when they are their own biggest enemy. This story was the third in the oxford series, and absolutely worth the wait! I loved the story of Lincoln and Daisy. I loved the witty back and forth between them, how they understood each other. How they recognized the other had issues they were working through but were there for the other without being intrusive. Great book.
I was anticipating Lincoln’s story since the day I started the The Sex, Love & Stiletto Series 4-Book Bundle. I Loved the tension between Daisy and Lincoln, this was a heartwarming love story.
I enjoyed it and could not put it down!
Lincoln Mathis is the Relationship and Sex writer for Oxford magazine. He was the ultimate playboy who had women falling all over him. Daisy Sinclair is the twin of Emma who is marrying Lincoln’s boss Alex. Both were told to stay away from each other, which is hard to do as they are both best man/maid of honor at the wedding.
Sparks fly when they meet, but they are both broken so they decide to be friends instead. Daisy can see through Lincoln’s playboy mask and tells him she knows he’s faking. After a night of drinking (and not hooking up), Lincoln decides to let her in on his secret. (I won’t give it away!)
This book tore at my heartstrings. I cried, laughed, cried again. I felt the pain the characters felt. I fell in love with them as they fell in love with each other. Well done, Lauren! Well done. You wrote Lincoln’s story beautifully. I didn’t want it to end.
So, so good! Two injured souls who come together to heal. You would never know Lincoln does not have it all. He is the ultimate playboy, at least that is what he portrays to the world. Really he is celibate after his fiance is in a car crash and critically injured and he has spent the last couple years and he visits the last Sunday of the month. This has been his life until his boss’s wedding and meeting Daisy, the maid of honor and twin sister of the bride. Daisy is newly divorced. Both are warned off each other but end up ditching the reception. These two are made for each other but it is a slow burn but a wonderful story.
Very Romantic, very little comedy
My second book of the Oxford series, and the Stilettos series. I skipped book #2 because it wasn’t about any of the group of friends of the series and I wanted to know what was behind Lincoln Mathis. In the previous books he was depicted as the most handsome and sexy of the guys who had an endless string of women succeeding in his bed, none of them mad at him. I was very curious about how Lauren Layne could explain that.
The story behind Lincoln Mathis is very plausible but heartbreaking. Both of the main characters have a sad background, and it drags with them along during a big part of the book. Don’t get me wrong, it’s sad, but there’s no angst. They’re trying to cope with their pain.
As usual, it’s well written and always the perfect balance to describe the emotions and feelings. The difference is striking from all the romance novels I’ve read these last two months. The vocabulary is always appropriate.
The pace of this book is quite different from the Stilettos series and Irresistibly yours (Oxford #2) and appreciated it. It helped not having the feeling of reading the same kind of story.
Lauren Layne did it again: she convinced me to read another of her books.
Normally I stay away from stories of widowers (this is not that story but it’s something sort of similar). It’s a personal thing for me. You see, I believe everyone should be the love of someone’s life. If you fall in love with someone who already had that, and you haven’t already had that, you never get to be that. Did that sentence make any sense? I’m not sure, but hopefully you get my point. Which is, I want to read love stories about each others ‘love of my life’. Not stories about ‘well, I lost the love of my life but you come in a close second’.
I have to say though, Layne did a great job of almost changing my attitude about that. Don’t get me wrong, I believe in people moving on, healing, learning to love again. I really, really do. But I am not sure I have ever believed you can love two people in equal measures. I think you can love them differently, but if you say “I lost the love of my life”, I’m always going to feel like the next person you love is second best. I hope to someday completely change my mind on that. Again, Layne has helped. But I am not there yet.
Wow, this is really just me ranting about myself and not saying shit about the book. Super sidetracked today, I guess.
Anyway…
Someone Like You was full of charming characters and I wish that I’d started at the beginning of the series because I think I would really love the back stories of all the side players. There was so much wit and fun banter but not overly done or cheesy.
The story itself was quite heartfelt and emotional but again, not overly so. It’s not a book that makes you ugly cry start to finish but it’s definitely one that has just enough heartache to make you truly feel the anguish with both Lincoln and Daisy as they learn to heal from their pasts and move on to their futures.
This story was not what I thought it would be, about a playboy and divorcee. It was so much more and I was pleasantly surprised. My first Oxford novel but not my last.
I have really loved and enjoyed these two series Sex, Love and Stilettos and Oxford. I definitely recommend this sexy and emotional read. I am looking forward to the next book in this series. I also recommend this author.
Unlike some of the others in the series. This one starts slow, but ends in happily ever after. Two tortured souls who understands each other but their past get in the way. Not as steamy as others but fairly good sappy romance.
Enjoyed it
This is the third installment of the Oxford series, a spinoff from LL’s Sex, Love, & Stiletto series. It’s the long-awaited of Lincoln’s story and what a story it is. Lincoln is the Oxford class clown, the easy-go-lucky guy who is never down and always has a witty comeback. He’s commonly known as the man-whore of the group. Somehow though he manages to remain friends with every single woman he’s ever gone out with. No one can figure out how he does it. How he can walk into a room and instantly have women falling all over him.
Daisy is the first person to see Lincoln for who he really is, and isn’t. She sees deeper. She knows Lincoln has scars that run deep. He’s not what he seems to be. Or is he? Daisy recognizes some kindred spirit, or at least she thinks she does. They form an instant friendship but they both know it can never be more than that. They are both broken but they can lean on each other.
This is pure rom-com mixed with some pretty tough stuff. It’s pure Lauren Layne and everything you’d expect it to be. This is a story of finding the one and never letting them go. It’s a story of ultimate loyalty and promises kept. It still has all the familiar characters with a few new ones added in. It’s still got that wonderful LL style but shows a tougher side of life and the struggle to learn to live again.
Favorite Quotes:
Nobody’s quite figured out how he manages, but despite his having a black book bigger than the Bible, there doesn’t seem to be even a trace of bitterness among his ex-flings.
I happen to like our story… Especially now that it’s taken a turn for the naked.
‘No,’ Jackson said, as he dropped his own sandwich back on his plate in disgust. ‘Just no. There are rules for these sort of things, Riley. No talking about your lady time while people are eating.’
My Review:
The storyline for Someone Like You was ingenious and well-constructed. Written from a third person POV, this friends to lovers story squeezed my heart. Both of the main characters were appealing, alluring, endearing, and damaged. The walking wounded aspect was something they instantly recognized in each other and resulted in an immediate sense of kinship or camaraderie for a fellow traveler. Throughout most of the narrative, I felt a constant yet low thrumming undercurrent of grief and regret, which co-existed with the characters mutual attraction and ease with each other. While this observation sounds contradictory, it worked – Lauren Layne has mad skills. Although I am no fan of angst, I found it difficult to put my kindle down and finished the book in a day. Then again, I always enjoy a chance to become reacquainted with the Oxford/Stiletto staffers.
Lincoln Mathis is a man with some serious game, one simple look and he has the ladies quivering, every move he makes is under their watchful eye, each one dying for the chance to score the prestigious place on his arm. But for Lincoln that is all that it is, a little game of sorts, he has no intention of ever letting any of them that close, or anywhere near his heart, that is kept under lock and key. But the moment he meets the alluring Daisy Sinclair he is instantly enamored with her, she is by all accounts as good at the game as he is…and it’s downright astounding!
Daisy Sinclair has been forewarned about Lincoln Mathis, and his ever-growing reputation for being the ultimate playboy, so she decided early on that she wouldn’t be like the rest and fall for his game… but the minute he strides into her life she begins to realize she might be in over head! Nothing could have prepared her the gorgeous Mr. Mathis, he is smooth, charming, and his sex appeal is blinding, so much so, she feels her good sense slipping away, and her resistance to his charms start to falter. But then he surprises her, and makes her an offer she can’t refuse… a no strings attached friendship, and that’s something she really needs right now. But can she really only be friends with a man as tempting as Lincoln?
The second I laid eyes on the cover for this one I was in, SOOOO IN, the intensity in his gaze had me wanting to dive right in and learn every little detail about this sexy specimen! The instant Lincoln appeared on the page I was instantly smitten with him, and continued to fall hard for him with each page I read… you just meet characters quite like him too often. He was every bit the smooth talking alpha he was rumored to be, but underneath his playboy facade was a man with a gentle caring spirit, and a heart of gold. From the beginning it was evident that these two were a match made in literary heaven, watching the two wounded souls heal from their past losses, and discover their happily ever after was truly a beautiful thing to witness. This was by far one of the best takes on the friends to lovers trope that I have ever read, and these two uniquely crafted characters sure to linger with me for a long while, definitely one of my favorites from this author!! I highly recommend this one, it’s sure to stir your emotions, warm your heart, and renew your faith in happily ever afters!!
Someone Like You is the 3rd book in the Oxford Series and it can be read as a stand alone issue, you will not get lost if you do not read them in order. I have to admit i cried most all way through this book, it’s a heart wrenching tale of death, abuse and a second chance at finding love. The dog Kiwi is adorable and is a bonus IMO.
This book is the story of Lincoln Mathis and Daisy Sinclair, one who lost a loved one and the other who endured abuse. They both come with baggage and start out as friends and have been warned to stay away from each other by Daisy’s twin sister. There is an instant connection between these characters but can the issues that hold them back be overcome to find love that will last a lifetime.
Love the secondary characters and the updates of the happenings in theirs lives. I also look forward to the next book in this series. I most definitely recommend this book, you will fall in love….
One of best I have read in awhile.
Love it!
I enjoyed it immensely. Looking forward to reading about the other characters I met in this book.