For You & No One Else by Roni Loren: As a therapist and a believer of love and romance Eliza finds 
herself on the wrong end of a viral social media meme where she has been labelled as the worst date ever, now with her entire perfectly filtered life coming crashing down Eliza can’t help but want to escape all of the social backlash. Which is how annoyingly attractive and snarky Beck Carter comes into the picture. Beck strikes up a bet with Eliza that if she stays of social media for six months then he will help her find her feet in the real world, no dating apps, no tech and absolutely no filters.
It really is the perfect plan, giving the media storm a chance to die down, meet some new people and hey if she can create a how to survive the dating world sans an app, why not? The only thing that Eliza couldn’t have taken into account was the raw attraction that she begins to feeling for Beck, there is just something about his unfiltered honesty that calls to Eliza unlike anyone.
I have really been enjoying the Say Everything series and I was super thrilled to get my hands on a copy of For You And No One Else but for me there was just something missing in this book. I will say that there were loads of sparky banter, sizzling chemistry and tons of emotional moments laced throughout the book. Loren has done a great job once again in incorporating real life drama, baggage and issues into the lives of her characters.
I think the thing that held this book back for me largely had to do with both main characters and the lack of development in Becks back story and the lack of realness to Eliza as a therapist. I just felt that for all her well written and planned out posts Eliza was the total opposite of what a therapist would be, she just felt inauthentic. As for our hero Beck well for the most part I liked his character that is until it came time to look at his past, this just felt meh at best. I think Loren could have given his back story a bit more substance or something that went with the tone of the rest of the book.
Now don’t get me wrong there was plenty to like about this book, starting with the chemistry between Eliza and Beck. These two had chemistry in spades and this only got better as the book progressed. I loved their banter and that will they or won’t they effect that played out with most of their encounters. For all their chemistry these two could not be more different and this only added to what made watching them get together all the more delicious. I will say that the age gap trope has never really been a total favourite of mine and in this book it just felt so forced, like the way Eliza kept bring it up was kind of lame. I also really liked that we got to see some of the other couples and that we got an update on their lives, this is always a treat in my opinion.
One of the major themes throughout this series is the importance of mental health, I think this is such an important thing to include in books to help make it a more socially spoken about topic. Loren has done a great job on showing the world of social media and how it has taken up such a big place in everyones lives. I will say that I liked that she touched on the fact that it has largely become about how you portray yourself rather than what is real.
For You And No One Else wasn’t my favourite book in this series but I would still recommend checking it out.
Book Info:
Publication: July 5, 2022 | Sourcebooks Casablanca | Say Everything #3
She has the perfect life…and it’s a perfect lie.
Behind the careful façade, she’s struggling:
To feel like she fits in. To find her true voice.
Now, finally, she’s ready to start living her own story.
Eliza Catalano has the perfect life. So what if it actually looks nothing like the story she tells online? As a therapist, it’s part of her job to look like she has all the answers, right? But when Eliza ends up as a viral “Worst Date Ever” meme, everything in her Instagram-filtered world begins to crumble.
Enter the most obnoxiously attractive man she’s ever met, and a bet she can’t resist: if she swears off social media for six months, Beck Carter’ll teach her the wonders of surviving the “real world.” No technology, no dating apps, no pretty filters, no BS.
It seems like the perfect deal—she can lay low until her sudden infamy passes, meet some interesting new people, and maybe even curate this experience into a how I quit the online dating racket book along the way. But something about Beck’s raw honesty speaks to Eliza in ways she never expected. She knows he’s supposed to be completely hands-off…but as complex feelings grow and walls come tumbling down, rough-around-the-edges Beck may be exactly what Eliza needs to finally, truly face herself—and decide who she really wants to be.
