While You Were Seething

Author: Charlotte Stein Title: While You Were Seething Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Date Published: 04/14/2026

Read Dates: 03/14/2026- 03/15/2026
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

While You Were Seething is a single POV enemies-to-lovers, fake dating romance. Daisy has her own successful PR firm, but when she is hired to help her college nemesis, Caleb, fix his career as a romance author after he torched it by announcing he thinks happy endings are all a lie, she might have bitten off more than she can chew. Surly and reclusive Caleb isn't interested in a multi-city road trip book tour to salvage his career, but he can't seem to say no to Daisy. And when fans mistake her for the mysterious beloved that he dedicates each book to, their forced-proximity trip detours into fake dating as well!

I have really been enjoying this rom-com series by Charlotte Stein. I loved seeing cameos from familiar characters from previous books, and especially loved Daisy and Caleb. Daisy and her determination to be helpful, with a love of romance books and zombie films, is easy to relate to. Surly Caleb, with his austere life and seeming bafflement at Daisy's joyful existence, was fun to read. It was funny, sweet, and spicy, and all around an enjoyable read. 

Daisy Emmett has been enemies with famous romance author Caleb Miller since they were in college together, and time hasn’t lessened their mutual loathing. So when she agrees to manoeuvre him through a PR disaster of his own making, she knows it’s not going to be easy. She just doesn’t realise how not easy until they somehow end up trapped in the same truck, on an endless road trip from one book tour stop to another, bantering and butting heads along the way.

Then, even more people appear to be mistaking her for the woman he dedicates all his books to. The love of his life, his adored beloved—the one who doesn’t actually exist. Now they’re trapped into pretending she does and that Daisy is her, each fake kiss and phoney embrace ratcheting up the tension to the point where enemies suddenly seems a lot closer to lovers than either of them would like.

Or so they’re telling themselves.

But sometimes it’s hard to be sure, when seething turns into something so much more…