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After the Kiss
(Sex, Love & Stiletto #1)
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Lauren Layne kicks off her Sex, Love & Stiletto series with a delightful short novel! In After the Kiss, the star columnist of Stiletto magazine will do anything for a story. Anything . . . except fall in love.
Julie Greene loves flings. Loves steamy first dates, sizzling first kisses, and every now and then, that first sexy romp between the sheets. Comfy pants, sleepy S ...more
Julie Greene loves flings. Loves steamy first dates, sizzling first kisses, and every now and then, that first sexy romp between the sheets. Comfy pants, sleepy S ...more
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Oct 31, 2015
Katerina
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4.5 stars
Expectations
A funny fluffy read with a hot male lead and lots of banters and smexy times that would leave me smiling in a cute/creepy way.
Reality
A funny fluffy read with asurprisingly hot Wall Street broker with pant-melting dimples and lots of banters and smexy times and a little drama that left m
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“Julie almost laughed at the ridiculousness of the moment.Here was a short-term kind of girl begging for a long-term relationship from a long-term kind of guy who wanted a fling.”
Expectations
A funny fluffy read with a hot male lead and lots of banters and smexy times that would leave me smiling in a cute/creepy way.
Reality
A funny fluffy read with a
It’s not often I read a rom-com movie.
The thing is… this story is so damn adorable. It’s exactly like that movie How To Lose A Man In 10 Days. I enjoyed this book a lot.
It’s such a light read but feeling packed, nonetheless.
I liked Julie so much and Mitchell was a very surprising man. They have some off the charts chemistry going on and my only complain is that I wish the book would’ve been longer.
The thing is… this story is so damn adorable. It’s exactly like that movie How To Lose A Man In 10 Days. I enjoyed this book a lot.
It’s such a light read but feeling packed, nonetheless.
I liked Julie so much and Mitchell was a very surprising man. They have some off the charts chemistry going on and my only complain is that I wish the book would’ve been longer.
Sep 26, 2013
• Lisa •
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4 KISS ME STARS.
Readers welcome to 'After the Kiss' a contemporary romance that swept me off my romantic feet. I think I may have just have fallen a little in love with this author, her books are made in kindle heaven. This adorable story is like a gorgeous combination of ' Sex and the city' meets 'How to loose a guy in ten days' with the like-ability and humour of 'Bridgett Jones' and here are my book thoughts ...
What's it all about?
Julie Greene is a successful journalist in New York city writi ...more
Readers welcome to 'After the Kiss' a contemporary romance that swept me off my romantic feet. I think I may have just have fallen a little in love with this author, her books are made in kindle heaven. This adorable story is like a gorgeous combination of ' Sex and the city' meets 'How to loose a guy in ten days' with the like-ability and humour of 'Bridgett Jones' and here are my book thoughts ...
What's it all about?
Julie Greene is a successful journalist in New York city writi ...more
I feel you, Rihanna. Where has Lauren Layne been all my life? Or more importantly, where have I been?
After the Kiss was all kinds of cute. I've been on a fantasy and YA craze for such a long time that this contemporary was such a nice change of pace.
Dating guru, Julie, works at Stiletto magazine for their articles on Sex, Love and Dating. Julie is all about the first kisses, butterflies in the stomach, and how to reel a man in. After all that, she cuts 'em loose. She all about having fun, stay ...more
Dec 28, 2015
Stacey is Sassy
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The fling became love.
I started and finished After the Kiss in one day.
This is a cute story about a journalist named Julie who writes about love in the beginning stages. Her articles talk about first dates, kissing and how thing should be done. She's an expert in the field because it's all she knows. Julie doesn't do relationships as she doesn't want to be boring and predictable like other couples she knows. Life is one big party and an endless supply of good looking dates. She loves her life a ...more
I started and finished After the Kiss in one day.
This is a cute story about a journalist named Julie who writes about love in the beginning stages. Her articles talk about first dates, kissing and how thing should be done. She's an expert in the field because it's all she knows. Julie doesn't do relationships as she doesn't want to be boring and predictable like other couples she knows. Life is one big party and an endless supply of good looking dates. She loves her life a ...more
Feb 23, 2015
Jessica ❁ ➳ Silverbow ➳ ❁
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Recommended to Jessica ❁ ➳ Silverbow ➳ ❁ by:
Robin (Bridge Four)
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Would've been perfect but for two things:
1. On (barely) date #2, Julie overshares about her dead family and the whole thing felt super contrived.
2. Well, I can't tell you #2 b/c SPOILER, but it was also extremely manufactured.
But pretty good for contemporary romance. Still, I'm rocking my EXTREME palate cleanse, so on to my next bit of fluff. *throws glitter in the air* ...more
1. On (barely) date #2, Julie overshares about her dead family and the whole thing felt super contrived.
2. Well, I can't tell you #2 b/c SPOILER, but it was also extremely manufactured.
But pretty good for contemporary romance. Still, I'm rocking my EXTREME palate cleanse, so on to my next bit of fluff. *throws glitter in the air* ...more
5.5 "The bet & the story" Stars!
After reading Irresistibly Yours, I couldn't stop myself and I decided on reading Lauren's Sex, Love & Stiletto series. And I cannot be happier about it! I am thoroughly enjoying it!!
After the Kiss is the first novel in this series and it is about Julie Greene (a very succesful journalist, expert on dating, and now a worried one because she has to write about something more) and Mitchell Forbes (a Wall Street worker who does a 'different' bet with a collegue a ...more
After reading Irresistibly Yours, I couldn't stop myself and I decided on reading Lauren's Sex, Love & Stiletto series. And I cannot be happier about it! I am thoroughly enjoying it!!
After the Kiss is the first novel in this series and it is about Julie Greene (a very succesful journalist, expert on dating, and now a worried one because she has to write about something more) and Mitchell Forbes (a Wall Street worker who does a 'different' bet with a collegue a ...more
Sep 26, 2013
Catarina
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4 Sweet Stars! : )
Julie is a professional journalist. A modern city girl who has no desire to fall in love. Until the day her boss give her a new challenge: What happens after the first dates?
Julie now have to find out how to meet a guy… and keep him.
So she and her best-friends start scanning and the result is: Mitchell.
Mitchell is a “Wall Street Guy”, that was always serious about his relationships. Some of them even went way longer than it should.
So, now he decided to give up on the ser ...more
Julie is a professional journalist. A modern city girl who has no desire to fall in love. Until the day her boss give her a new challenge: What happens after the first dates?
Julie now have to find out how to meet a guy… and keep him.
So she and her best-friends start scanning and the result is: Mitchell.
Mitchell is a “Wall Street Guy”, that was always serious about his relationships. Some of them even went way longer than it should.
So, now he decided to give up on the ser ...more
Sep 26, 2013
Patty ~ Wrapped Up In Reading Book Blog
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5 OVER THE MOON IN LOVE WITH THIS STORY STARS!!!!!
LOVED, LOVED, LOVED IT!!!
(BR with Melissa and Denisse)
I'm still just floating on cloud 9 after reading this one.
This is the second book I've ready by Lauren Layne, and I already know this lady is going to be one of my top fave authors.
Her stories seem to read like the really good rom/com movies of my youth with Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, and Drew Barrymore.
This story definitely had a "Sex and The City" vibe to it.
We have Julie Greene, ...more
LOVED, LOVED, LOVED IT!!!
(BR with Melissa and Denisse)
I'm still just floating on cloud 9 after reading this one.
This is the second book I've ready by Lauren Layne, and I already know this lady is going to be one of my top fave authors.
Her stories seem to read like the really good rom/com movies of my youth with Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, and Drew Barrymore.
This story definitely had a "Sex and The City" vibe to it.
We have Julie Greene, ...more
Oct 03, 2013
♥Rachel♥
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it was amazing
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Recommended to ♥Rachel♥ by:
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Lauren Layne is my new favorite author! After the Kiss was the perfect blend of sass, humor, and spice all wrapped around a romance that will make your heart swoon! After the Kiss is only 180 pages long but I literally have nine pages worth of highlighted quotes/passages, evidence of how much I loved this story.
Julie is a writer for Stiletto magazine and specializes in writing about falling in love: the first date, first kiss, and all the highs you get from a new romance. She’s had plenty of pra ...more
Julie is a writer for Stiletto magazine and specializes in writing about falling in love: the first date, first kiss, and all the highs you get from a new romance. She’s had plenty of pra ...more
OMG this book was just fun wrapped in bacon (because bacon makes everything better) To be honest...there was no bacon in this...BUT IT FELT LIKE IT!!!
You know those days that you just need a little dose of flirtation, love and cheese and that is the day that you watch romantic comedies that you have seen a million times that still just make you smile. Well THIS was that book for me. It had the feel of How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days but the story is different enough that while it reminds me of t ...more
You know those days that you just need a little dose of flirtation, love and cheese and that is the day that you watch romantic comedies that you have seen a million times that still just make you smile. Well THIS was that book for me. It had the feel of How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days but the story is different enough that while it reminds me of t ...more
2.5 stars
This is my second book by this author....
....and, I'm gonna go out on a limb here - and say I don't think this author works for me. This one is sliiiightly better than my first read of hers Only with You, but not much.
The characters were dull, the heroine unlikable, and though this had a romantic comedy feel to it....it simply wasn't funny. The dialogue which I guess is supposed to be snarky and snappy felt forced and fell flat. This type of writing (and humour) must work for some rea ...more
/ REREAD 7/19/2016 /
Yup, still as good as the first time! Lauren Layne is seriously such perfection, ugh. It still kills me that this series is over because everything about it is what I want in other romances.
Riley is my favorite of the girls, but Julie and Mitchell have the most addictive story. I highly recommend to everyone <3
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LAUREN LAYNE, YOU ARE A QUEEN.
"Real love-the kind that matters-is giving your heart to someone, even after he tries to hand it back."
Despite being c ...more
Yup, still as good as the first time! Lauren Layne is seriously such perfection, ugh. It still kills me that this series is over because everything about it is what I want in other romances.
Riley is my favorite of the girls, but Julie and Mitchell have the most addictive story. I highly recommend to everyone <3
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LAUREN LAYNE, YOU ARE A QUEEN.
"Real love-the kind that matters-is giving your heart to someone, even after he tries to hand it back."
Despite being c ...more
After the Kiss reads like a fun chick flick. If you liked the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 days then you'll like this book.
Stiletto Magazine is about sex and high heels and Julie's the expert on first kisses, getting him to call, butterflies in your tummy, basically the finesse of dating. Her boss has challenged her to write an article where she takes the relationship further than just first kisses...she's must become serious with a guy.
Mitchell works on Wall Street. He's a suit and tie type of ...more
Stiletto Magazine is about sex and high heels and Julie's the expert on first kisses, getting him to call, butterflies in your tummy, basically the finesse of dating. Her boss has challenged her to write an article where she takes the relationship further than just first kisses...she's must become serious with a guy.
Mitchell works on Wall Street. He's a suit and tie type of ...more
“Love simply was. Love was Julie.”
This was a cute, sexy and funny story.
I liked the book and loved its characters.
This was a cute, sexy and funny story.
I liked the book and loved its characters.
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They started for all the wrong reasons. Will they realize that it never has to end because of all the right ones?
After the Kiss is a perfect chick lit book. It’s a charming and sexy story in which Lauren writes romance with just the right balance between sassy, playful, sexy and drama.
Julie Greene is one of Stiletto Magazine’s top columnists. When she’s forced by her well-meaning boss to write a story about how to take a relationship beyond ...more
They started for all the wrong reasons. Will they realize that it never has to end because of all the right ones?
After the Kiss is a perfect chick lit book. It’s a charming and sexy story in which Lauren writes romance with just the right balance between sassy, playful, sexy and drama.
Julie Greene is one of Stiletto Magazine’s top columnists. When she’s forced by her well-meaning boss to write a story about how to take a relationship beyond ...more
4.5 stars
That was so sweet. Lauren Layne's books are just so amazing and cute and funny and sweet. I loved this one a lot more than I did book three, and I just had so much fun reading it. I did put it off for a while, because I was getting to that point where NA gets pretty angsty, and I was scared of the angst. I'm not a huge fan of it, and I thought it was going to be really bad, but it wasn't overwhelming, it wasn't too bad.
I really liked Mitchell and Julie too! They were a great couple and ...more
That was so sweet. Lauren Layne's books are just so amazing and cute and funny and sweet. I loved this one a lot more than I did book three, and I just had so much fun reading it. I did put it off for a while, because I was getting to that point where NA gets pretty angsty, and I was scared of the angst. I'm not a huge fan of it, and I thought it was going to be really bad, but it wasn't overwhelming, it wasn't too bad.
I really liked Mitchell and Julie too! They were a great couple and ...more
Sep 26, 2013
Wendy'sThoughts
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Recommends it for:
Lauren Layne Fans, Romance
4 Hard Core, Surprisingly, Swoon Worthy, Fun Stars
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The set up is something we have read over and over again with different variations: girl makes a bet about a guy... guy makes a bet about a girl- they both work their angle.... shit happens- both fall for each other but due to the bet... both get exposed some how and then it all comes together in the end.
Yet somehow, even though we know the format, this little tale works; and it really has some great moments.
Here is The Blurb:
Julie Green ...more
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The set up is something we have read over and over again with different variations: girl makes a bet about a guy... guy makes a bet about a girl- they both work their angle.... shit happens- both fall for each other but due to the bet... both get exposed some how and then it all comes together in the end.
Yet somehow, even though we know the format, this little tale works; and it really has some great moments.
Here is The Blurb:
Julie Green ...more
On second thought, Stiletto readers wouldn't be getting that little bit of wisdom. This was one memory she was saving for herself.
She was starting to worry she wanted to save it all for herself.
Aaaaaaah she's done it again. By now I assume anyone who has read any of my Lauren Layne reviews is rolling their eyes and saying...Okay, we get it, you LIKE the woman and OF COURSE you gave her book 5 stars. Well, to address issue numero uno-Yes. Yes, I ADORE Lauren Layne and apparently everything she wr ...more
She was starting to worry she wanted to save it all for herself.
Aaaaaaah she's done it again. By now I assume anyone who has read any of my Lauren Layne reviews is rolling their eyes and saying...Okay, we get it, you LIKE the woman and OF COURSE you gave her book 5 stars. Well, to address issue numero uno-Yes. Yes, I ADORE Lauren Layne and apparently everything she wr ...more
She did NOT owe him ANYTHING!
This brainless bimbo actually apologised to him and then begged for a chance to this SOB.
Granted she was playing games with him for the sake of her career. What was HE doing? He was trying to win a bet by seducing her.
At least she had a purpose. His was for pure amusement.
Yet he had the gall to be offended?
The double standards in this book is the size of my ass!
And when she calls him out on his shit, what does he do? Calls her a prostitute in front of HIS AND her fri ...more
This brainless bimbo actually apologised to him and then begged for a chance to this SOB.
Granted she was playing games with him for the sake of her career. What was HE doing? He was trying to win a bet by seducing her.
At least she had a purpose. His was for pure amusement.
Yet he had the gall to be offended?
The double standards in this book is the size of my ass!
And when she calls him out on his shit, what does he do? Calls her a prostitute in front of HIS AND her fri ...more
This is the first time I’ve ever hated an LL book, but my god the hero was the absolute fucking worst. So condescending and hypocritical. He put in zero effort towards the relationship and didn’t make up for the awful things he said to the heroine at the end. She deserved so much better.
Aug 07, 2019
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i disrupted my long streak of f/f books to finish this but i’m not complaining because julie and mitchell are honorary gays ✊🏼🥺👋🏼
Oct 05, 2013
MELISSA *Mel Reader*
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(BR With Patty & Denisse)
(4-4.5 Stars)
Julie Greene is a senior columnist for Stiletto magazine in New York City. Julie and her two best friends/co-workers are considered the princesses of Stiletto's, and are in charge of writing about the dating, love, and sex departments of the magazine. Julie is a beautiful, successful woman who enjoys carefree dating, and has a different hot guy every week. She has worked her way up to the top of New York's social ladder, an ...more
(BR With Patty & Denisse)
(4-4.5 Stars)
Julie Greene is a senior columnist for Stiletto magazine in New York City. Julie and her two best friends/co-workers are considered the princesses of Stiletto's, and are in charge of writing about the dating, love, and sex departments of the magazine. Julie is a beautiful, successful woman who enjoys carefree dating, and has a different hot guy every week. She has worked her way up to the top of New York's social ladder, an ...more
A classic modern day romantic comedy that is fun, sexy and hilarious with a heart warming ending. I guess Amy had it right, this is quite similar to the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
Julie Greene is a columnist who writes about dating. Her besties Grace and Riley wrote about Love and Sex. Julie is a serial dater and allergic towards settling for a relationship. A movie night at home with a guy equals total nightmare. But when her boss demands her to write a new topic about bringing your re ...more
Julie Greene is a columnist who writes about dating. Her besties Grace and Riley wrote about Love and Sex. Julie is a serial dater and allergic towards settling for a relationship. A movie night at home with a guy equals total nightmare. But when her boss demands her to write a new topic about bringing your re ...more
4 Rom Com Stars
Julie Greene is a single woman who steers clear of commitment when it comes to dating at all costs. Who wants to get to the “comfortable” stage of a relationship when movie nights spent on the couch wearing ratty sweats counts as a date night? Certainly not Julie. When Julie’s editor asks her to write an article on the progression of a committed relationship, the stuff that comes after the first kisses and the butterflies, she’s got her work cut out for her. She has some pretty hi ...more
Julie Greene is a single woman who steers clear of commitment when it comes to dating at all costs. Who wants to get to the “comfortable” stage of a relationship when movie nights spent on the couch wearing ratty sweats counts as a date night? Certainly not Julie. When Julie’s editor asks her to write an article on the progression of a committed relationship, the stuff that comes after the first kisses and the butterflies, she’s got her work cut out for her. She has some pretty hi ...more
Jun 30, 2016
Bindi Boo
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4.5 glorious stars
I had to redeem myself from guilt- this did it! LOVED Mitchell, he may be my favourite man in this series!
I had to redeem myself from guilt- this did it! LOVED Mitchell, he may be my favourite man in this series!
Julie had made her career out of writing about how to fall in love. She knows everything about those first precious and exciting moments when your eyes hold for a beat too long, the tingle when you first touch or the electrifying first kiss. While most women wait for these moments to happen, Julie Green creates them. Luring men in is not a problem. Keeping them, well, that’s a different story.
When her boss suggest Julie should write an article on how to take the relationship to the next level, J ...more
Keep reading if you enjoyed How to lose a guy in 10 days, Failure to Launch, The Ugly Truth or simply Matthew McConaughey. I'm guilty of some of it.
This book was a sweet reminder of chicklit marathons & rom coms devoured in high school.
What you get in this book :
“For the record, I think this whole thing is depraved. But if you’re going to do it, you might as well do it right.”
A depraved relationship experiment, a column and a soaring career.
Dual pov - you know our players inside out.
Julie, she ...more
This book was a sweet reminder of chicklit marathons & rom coms devoured in high school.
What you get in this book :
“For the record, I think this whole thing is depraved. But if you’re going to do it, you might as well do it right.”
A depraved relationship experiment, a column and a soaring career.
Dual pov - you know our players inside out.
Julie, she ...more
"I didn't realize how conflicted you were over this until it was too late."
"Me neither. What are you going to do now?"
"Now? Now I pull out the big guns."
"Threesome?"
"No. Movie night."
If you love How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days, then you'll love AFTER THE KISS. Except instead of the dashing hero in marketing, we have a buttoned up Wall Street broker who is a serial monogamous, and instead of a "How-To" columnist the experiment in pushing a relationship to the next level is being done by the casual- ...more
"Me neither. What are you going to do now?"
"Now? Now I pull out the big guns."
"Threesome?"
"No. Movie night."
If you love How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days, then you'll love AFTER THE KISS. Except instead of the dashing hero in marketing, we have a buttoned up Wall Street broker who is a serial monogamous, and instead of a "How-To" columnist the experiment in pushing a relationship to the next level is being done by the casual- ...more
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So I loved this book, yes I know I’ve already written that but there is no harm in writing it again. I actually read
first before I caught on that there was a previous series with some of the characters so I back tracked and am star
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So I loved this book, yes I know I’ve already written that but there is no harm in writing it again. I actually read
first before I caught on that there was a previous series with some of the characters so I back tracked and am star
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