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    Friends Without Benefits: An Unrequited Love Romance

    By Penny Reid

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    Friends Without Benefits is book #2 in the Knitting in the City Series.

    There are three things you need to know about Elizabeth Finney: 1) She suffers from severe sarcastic syndrome, especially when she's unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her like Nico Manganiello, and 3) She knows how to knit.

    Elizabeth Finney is almost always right about everything: the musical merits of boy bands are undervalued by society, "benefits" with human Ken dolls are better without friendship, and the sun has set on her once-in-a-lifetime chance for true love. But when Elizabeth's plans for benefits without friendship are disarmed by the irritatingly charismatic and chauvinistic Nico Manganiello—her former nemesis—she finds herself struggling to maintain the electric fence around her heart while avoiding electrocution or, worse, falling in love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenny Reid
    Release dateMay 31, 2014
    ISBN9780989281027
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    Friends Without Benefits: An Unrequited Love Romance
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    Penny Reid

    Sign up for the newsletter of awesome: www.pennyreid.ninja/newsletterPenny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of the Winston Brothers and Knitting in the City series. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she writes kissing books. Penny is an obsessive knitter and manages the #OwnVoices-focused mentorship incubator / publishing imprint, Smartypants Romance. She lives in Seattle Washington with her husband, three kids, and dog named Hazel.FOLLOW PENNY:Facebook: www.facebook.com/pennyreidwriterTwitter: www.twitter.com/reidromanceInstagram: www.instagram.com/reidromanceJust Released:December 13th, 2022: Drama King, Three Kings Series, Book 2Upcoming Releases:2023: All Folked Up, Good Folk: Modern Folktales, Book 3Currently Working On:2023: Pride and Dad Jokes, Ideal Man, Book 1

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    • 4/5
      fun book and a great read. chapter 22 was a nice change, reminded men of the old choose your own adventure books
    • 1/5
      it was really good till the end. the guys is being really emotionally immature and manipulative, then everyone tells her it's her fault for not taking the relationship super fast in the first place.
    • 5/5
      I found this installment to the Knitting in the City series as enjoyable as the first (Neanderthal Seeks Human). I adored Nico and his family as much as I enjoy reading about the female friendships in these stories. These can totally be read as standalones if a particular character's backstory interests you more (Elizabeth is a doctor and Nico is a comedian).
    • 5/5
      Not gonna lie here, after I read the first two books I didn't especially like Elizabeth. She was too caustic for me. I also didn't like the idea of Nico, a crude comedian who wrestles women in bikinis in jello. So, I picked up this book with dread, wondering if it was going to measure up to the first two books in the series.Elizabeth is actually a big nougaty mess under her shell, and Nico is just adorable though I'm still not sure about the jello wrestling. The two have known each other since the cradle; Nico teased and bullied Elizabeth all through grade school in the fashion of little boys who don't know how else to attract the girl they like. Meanwhile, Elizabeth was oblivious, dating Nico's best friend and trying to ignore him. Ten years later, there's a lot of misunderstandings as well as crazy stalkers, a big Italian family, and the knitting group to help bring everything together for a HEA (if you read the 1.5 book in the series, you already know this, but this book tells you how they get there).By the end of the book, I adored both Elizabeth and Nico. There are some poignant moments as well as laugh-out-loud situations (which I badly need right now). It's lovely writing. I can't believe I haven't read Ms. Reid before, but definitely continuing with the series.
    • 2/5
      Having loved the Book #1 and #1.5....I was really looking forward to Elizabeth story but unfortunately I found the main female lead too whiny and childish...Nico's character was good but still prefer Quinn and Janie's love story....a #2 rating for me
    • 3/5
      Read the first three books of this series (#1, #1.5, and #2) straight in a row. The first were a fun romp but this one did not have as much charm. The antagonistic relationship between Elizabeth and Nico resulted in a lot of arguments which weren't as fun to read. It did finally dawn on me with this book, though, that Janie and Elizabeth were (loosely) based on the characters from Pride and Prejudice.
    • 5/5
      Loved this story!
    • 4/5
      great series, this is not my favorite in the series, but is still humorous and an easy flowing read
    • 4/5
      These books are addictive, like chocolate. They are deliciously sweet and after finishing them they leave you with a smile on your face and feeling good.
      I can't wait to read next book in the series.
    • 4/5
      finally a book 2 in a series that exceeds expectations. I really liked Janie and Quinn's book. Elizabeth and Nico was even better. 4.5 read this series now stars!
    • 4/5
      Great read/Reid! I liked Nico and Elizabeth's story.
    • 5/5
      Review to come!

      But I will say, that I thoroughly enjoyed this book! The mc could be annoying at times, but the writing (which had me bursting out loud at times) and the plot was superb. At the end of the day, the entertainment value of this book, gets a five star from me.
    • 5/5
      Friends without Benefits by Penny Reid
      Narrated by Devra Woodward
      Knitting in the city series book 2

      5 Stars - The longing and tension between Nico and Elizabeth.. so good. The narrator took a bit for me to get used to as she has a very lazy raspy voice for Nico, but it works and I ended up quite enjoying it.

      LOVED when Nico speaks Italian to her. Also, as I am one of those people who loves when bits of other languages are used in the books, but also immediately have to go look up the translation...I loved the fact that I had bought the kindle version along with the audible version because Ms.Reid included the translations of what he said in the written form. - Perfection!

      Also she had an “open door" version and a "closed door" version of the same scene, which allowed the reader to choose which version they wanted to read. I listened to both cause it was great each time!

      Wonder if Dan the security guard - gets a story. I really liked him. He didn't have a huge part.. but he stuck with me.

      ~Paragraphs and Petticoats~
    • 3/5
      Quickly-Hot Italian comedic hunk, struggles with desire for his life time love (Dr.Wanna Becoldass) who loved someone else and has closed her heart.

      Elizabeth- I liked the fact that the female lead was not a ditty blond but an accomplished self-made Dr. She is suffering from a pain so deep her life revolves around the scar. She stays away distant, uses people till they get close then she walks away. She gave herself to Nico, years ago and regrets it and is devastated when she is trapped into working near him treating his ill niece. This begins her amazing rant and crazy ass process of avoiding having a conversation about what happened. Her character lost me for a bit here. She was outspoken honest and blurted out very personal information to co workers and friends but couldn't talk to her "friend". This was a guy she had known her whole life. I found it irritating how she acted and out of character. Okay I must be fair it was explained by her juvenile heartbreak and horrible childhood experience. Meh, it was over played IMHO. I liked her nerdy love of Start Wars and her references to lines form the movies. I loved her knitting club, what a bunch of quirky nutty drunken fun women. I finished the book thinking I may want to learn to knit.
      Nico- Italian mega hunk, ex underwear model and current TV star. He was childhood friends with Elizebeth, we he tortured her like any little boy does when he likes a girl. He stood by and watched her fall for another boy, held her when that boy died and loved her for the first time. He has naked gorgeous women throwing themselves at him, and it makes hard to try to reconnect with this girl. She walked out on him like she did all her "men" without another word after one night when they were 17. Now he's taking care of his sick niece, and demands she be their Dr. His mother is all for this, and plays one funny matchmaker. He cooks nearly naked, speaks Italian, successful, is tall dark and handsome, yeh everyone wants him. His mind is set on one girl, but he finds his one may not happen.
      Power read last night. This one started out strong, then slowed towards the middle and then raced me through the last quarter of the story. This is not a little short story it is a full length novel. I really liked Nico, he was sucker punched by Elizebeth and still kept his cool. His family were the perfect mix of everything and lots of fun. Elizebeth, was a difficult character to like. She needed therapy years ago to recover from her issues. I really liked her ability to stand up bush her butt off and move on. I just found her constant self questioning and cold as stone attitude to be irritating. It was semi predictable, when is a romance not ? I liked it, not loved it. I would read this authors work again.