User Reviews
Rating: really liked it
my client has asked me to rate this book 1 star and serve the author with a restraining order
best regards
- adam driver’s publicist
Rating: really liked it
I’ll say more later cause I read this in the car (and I’m still here), but this was yikes city even before I got to the acknowledgements. I felt gross as a (definitely casual compared to this) Adam driver fan reading this cause it was just - the character read nothing like him but all the factoids were him. Way too weird.
And then I found out mid read that the author compared her son’s autism diagnosis to a terminal illness and :/
Basically this is a self-insert Adam Driver romance and I feel so uncomfortable. I know tidbits about his upbringing and military history from interviews and seeing it all here, only with names changed and the tiniest of details edited, made me physically recoil. This isn’t a fiction book, this is a daydream about a real man and I don’t think it should have been published. A few similarities here or there? Fine. But when there’s an entire twitter thread exploring the MANY ways this book crosses the line, it just becomes disgusting and creepy to me.
Not to mention the fucking ACKNOWLEDGMENTS- Adam honey get a restraining order please this is too MUCH.
The writing was bad with too much weight placed on simply telling the reader what’s in front of them and no focus placed on the prose sounding like anything other than a google translation of travel directions. The romance was weird and awkward- I couldn’t buy the chemistry at all, even separated from the complete absurdity of the character. Which, to comment on the writing, this guy acts nothing like Adam or a character of his I’ve seen (at this point is that a good thing? Iunno I want nothing to do with the self insert aspect). It’s just that for a book literally ripping off his life, he acts like some random dude with no vibes of the actual man at all. Probably because the author met him for 5 seconds at an award show and that’s it.
I gotta stop talking about this but yeah - the author said ridiculously ableist things and made her son’s autism all about her, she wrote a creepy ass book that makes me glad Adam driver has a security team, and it’s not even a good book.
Twitter thread here that I showed my friends when I couldn’t explain the book well enough myself: https://twitter.com/bensreys/status/1...
Thank you to bensreys for documenting this, I’m way too lazy for screenshots
Rating: really liked it
Awesome slow burn romance with an A-list leading man!
The following ratings are out of 5:Narration: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
Romance: ❤️💜💙🤍💛
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📙📕📗📘📔
World building: 🌎🌏🌍🌎🌎
Character development: 👨🏻👱🏻♀🧔🏻👩🏻👱🏼♂
The heroine: Juliet Nolan - Juliet recently started her own mobile dog grooming business and is helping out a friend by working as a “Seat Filler”at a major Hollywood awards show.
The Hero(es): Noah Douglas - An A-list movie star that is in the running for many of the major awards during the current award season. He has been an actor since he was a child and spent most of his years growing up on a TV show that was eerily similar to Saved by the Bell. Then he joined the military for a few years and returned and transitioned to doing movies. He was recently in a hugely popular trilogy called Duel of the Fae.
The Story: Juliet had a major crush on Noah throughout her teenage years, but when she meets him at the awards show, he is arrogant and condescending so she pretends not to know who Noah is. Noah is immediately intrigued by this girl in a fancy dress and pink converse high tops who is snarky and unimpressed by him.
I really enjoyed this story it was a clean romance with a lot of steam. Juliet had a very bad experience when she was young and has a very real fear of kissing. It is so bad that the few times she tried she has experienced panic attacks. So Noah offers to help Juliet with her problem and it leads to some pretty steamy kissing scenes.
The narrator is terrific. This is told by the heroine’s POV, so there is only a female narrator, but she has a great voice which fits Juliet perfectly, she has just the right amount of innocence and sass. She also did the male voice perfectly with a deep enough voice to make it sound great. This was a great book to listen to via audiobook!
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Rating: really liked it
adam driver’s not gonna fuck you!
Rating: really liked it
the only good thing to come out of this book is the 50 followers i gained from live tweeting it
Rating: really liked it
I got a stomach ache from how fucking creepy this author is.
The Seat Filler is about a dog groomer who while helping out her friend, ends up as a seat filler at an award show and happens to sit next to her celebrity crush. Pretending she doesn't know who he is, she plays uninterested while he becomes more interested. Soon they start a creepy ass romance.
I could give a better blurb but honestly fuck this book. This is the author's published self-insert fanfiction where she falls in love with the actor Adam Driver and it's disturbing to say the least. She takes literally every public known fact about him, even his trauma and uses it. The author doesn't even hide this fact and she's absolutely unhinged. The acknowledgements are even worse and I swear to god Adam Driver needs a restraining order from this woman.
There are actors that I love too but this level is "break into your house and hide in your closet" level not... watch every thing they are in and retweet memes about them level. There are lines we should have as fans and this woman not only crossed it, she back flipped over that and is proud to be this crazed stalker??? This is a grown woman, MARRIED and she does this shit?? There is no rational explanation, this is just fucking weird.
Actors are real people and the thought of ever making an actor I admire uncomfortable breaks my heart. I could never do this to them like imagine if Adam Driver ever saw this? I just know in this nutjob's head she's like omg Adam would find this ROMANTIC and he would instantly leave his wife for me!!! Sorry sis but that isn't happening and I hope he gets that restraining order asap.
Literally in this book the character gets exposed as being a fan of the actor guy and he literally finds it romantic. Do you smell something yes that's me I puked because of how gross I find this all.
As for the book and romance itself, it wasn't good. It felt like a parody and yet it was dead serious. The romance made no sense and was so awkward. They had no chemistry and yet kept ending up together at every moment. Every conversation they had I was just cringing at how fanfictiony it really was?? Like you could at least try to make this not suck but okay. I really spent most of the book just cringing and feeling really uncomfortable that such a book exists.
The writing was SO bad and all of the dialogue was nails on a chalkboard. The MC (idk her name, but it's probably Sariah) was so annoying oh my god I just wanted to fight her. She acts so quirky about eating her snickers and watching tv like ??? What kind of dumb shit is this she's an adult and so many people are like this you don't have to be so quirky, weird, and make your entire personality around how you like chocolate.
To top off how fucked this author is- she also recently made ableist comments about her son's autism like can we just throw the whole person away?
Rating: really liked it
Based on the author shipping herself with a real person/celebrity. Huge cringe.
Rating: really liked it
Warning- lots of great chemistry, romantic banter, scrumptious hero and endearing heroineThis may be Sariah's best book yet, and that's saying a lot because all her books are so good! I can't even form words, I just want to go and read the book again. Loved the storyline, loved the characters, loved all the swoony, and I mean S.W.O.O.N.Y. kisses! Did I mention the swoony kisses? But seriously, the love story is so great. Noah and Juliet have great chemistry, fun banter and a genuine connection.
Y'all need to pre-order your copies right now. Like drop everything, you will not want to miss out on this book. I'll write a full review closer to release date, after I've probably read it a few more times. *happy sigh*
Content:
Romance: Clean...did someone mention swoony kisses yet?
Language: None
Violence: None
2021 Swoony Nominee: https://tinyurl.com/y593ce67
Rating: really liked it
The swoon is strong with this one! And the award goes to... Sariah Wilson... for writing one of the cutest, swooniest books ever! The story of an every-day normal girl with believable issues and an intriguing, sweet, and handsome-in-his-own-right actor captured my interest and hooked me from the very first page. I couldn't get enough.
I love how witty and true to herself Juliet is and the banter and attraction between Juliet and Noah completely swept me away. The whole cast of characters is perfect for this story and meshed together in an amazing way that drew me right in and didn't let me go--I think this book must be laced with something addictive because I'm feeling a book hangover right about now.
This is hands-down one of the swooniest romances I've ever read. The connection between Noah and Juliet, and the super dreamy kisses, kept me up way too late and left me floating for a long time afterward. The Seat Filler is definitely a book that deserves to be re-read and I can't wait to enjoy it all over again.
Content: mild+ romance (swoony kissing, light innuendo)
*I received a complimentary copy through Netgalley. All opinions expressed are my own and were voluntarily given.*
Rating: really liked it
If I had to take one book with me on a deserted island, I’d take this book! Omg I devoured it. I’ve read all of @sariahwilson411’s books, and this one is definitely my favorite. I don’t know how she does it, but I bow to the queen of steam in closed-door romance books! It’s my favorite read of the year, and you need it in your life. The characters were so endearing and the premise was beyond fun! And now I have alllllll the heart eyes for Noah!
Out April 27! Thank you for this ARC, Sariah! ❤️
Rating: really liked it
this was already bad and then at 60% i realized it was fucking adam driver fanfiction and nearly quit. but morbid curiosity drove me on and i spent the last fifty pages just whispering, “oh, jesus christ, gross” to myself in the break room.
Rating: really liked it
4.5 /5 stars
The Seat Filler is my first book by this author. I think that I would categorize the book as somewhere between a contemporary romance and a rom-com. The story is quite emotional.
The narrator is 24 year old Juliet (1st person POV). She has her own dog grooming business.
Juliet and Shelby are roommates who live for celebrity gossip.
Shelby is an interior designer who has an amazing boyfriend named Allan. Allan's mom Harmony owns SeatFiller Nation a company that provides volunteers to fill empty seats at big Hollywood events.
I loved this book. It made me laugh. It made me cry. Juliet was such an enjoyable heroine. She doesn't date. But she ends up at an award show.
Noah is a movie star. I really enjoyed everything about him. And I loved everything in the story to do with dogs.
There were some really fun and surprising developments in this book. But honestly I do not think that I would have enjoyed this book as much as I did if I had read the book blurb prior to reading the book (it gives away too much).
Overall, when rating a book I think about how much the book made me feel. And I'm honestly very surprised how emotional this book was. It made me feel so much. I would definitely recommend this book.
Thanks to netgalley and Montlake romance for allowing me to read this book.
Rating: really liked it
The Seat Filler by Sariah Wilson is an adult romance set in the beautiful and lively city of Los Angeles (LA), we see our main characters Juliet Nolan, a dog groomer who runs her own company. She stays with her best friend Shelby. She has been kissed ever and not much into dating since a couple of years.
Noah Douglas, an well renowned actor, who stays at the Hollywood's porch area in LA. They both meet at an award show, hosted by Shelby's mother I guess, she is a seat filler and sits next to her childhood crush Noah Douglas, who is well known for his superhero trilogy based show. She pretends she does not know him and hence starts a slow burn romance.
I really really liked the author's narrative style and the book is definitely promising. Hooked from pretty much the first pages, I liked it alot. The concept of dog groomed and Noah's dog - Magnus was practically an add-on for the perfect plot. If you are a romance lover like me you would definitely enjoy this book keeping in mind the perfect plot and good writing style of the author.
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Thank You NetGalley and Publisher for the copy!
Rating: really liked it
This was the dose of SWEETNESS that I needed in my life! It's cute, charming, and just a little bit sexy. I loved the slow build from strangers to friends to lovers, and somehow this author has again made a "clean" book simmer with sexual tension. This hero is almost too good to be true, and I loved his kindness, patience, and single-minded focus. Our heroine makes a somewhat unreliable narrator, but it's so easy to see our hero falling head over heels. From the meet cute to the HEA, these two are absolutely ADORABLE together. And any reservations I had about that blurb evaporated as the intimacy between them grew.
The story follows Juliet, a 24-year-old woman who has never really been kissed. After a traumatic "7 minutes in Heaven" during her teenage years and the disastrous events that followed, she associates kissing and relationships with anxiety and fear. So when she meets Noah, a Hollywood heartthrob and the former child actor who starred in her teenage dreams... she's not as starstruck as she probably should be. While filling in as a seat filler at an awards show, Noah and Juliet strike up a conversation that leaves the actor wanting more. And as they continue running into each other - and Juliet keeps rejecting Noah - they form a connection that starts to feel a lot like friendship with the hint of something more.
I'll openly admit that I was a little hesitant about this blurb, though still very much interested in the story. I typically love her writing, so I dove right in - and do not regret it! This was a low angst delight with the kind of slow burn romance I love; it's about friendship first, with subtle hints of more throughout. There's no real "steam," but it's a sexy book with a whole lot of kissing, and the chemistry was definitely there. And even though we never get Noah's perspective, I felt like I knew exactly what he was thinking along the way... even if Juliet didn't. Noah is what makes this book what it is; he's patient and loving throughout, entirely respectful of Juliet's anxiety, and consistently a genuinely good human being. I loved him so much. There were maybe one or two moments when this was a little too sugary sweet, but you know what? I'm not complaining. It was exactly what I was in the mood for, and just a charming, compelling read. I received an early copy and am voluntarily leaving a review of this Hollywood romance.
Rating: really liked it
I was so wonderfully surprised by this book. In this story, Juliet is trying to figure out her life. She is struggling with her dog-grooming business, she has a mantra of no dating, and she has a couple of secrets complicating her ability to move forward in life. In fulfilling a promise to her best friend, she finds herself meeting her lifelong celebrity crush. This meet-cute leads to a blossoming “friendship”, but is it possible she could give up her no-boyfriends rule, share her secrets, and find true love?
I had no expectations and went into this book blind, drawn in by the cover and title alone. This book was absolutely adorable, with characters I quickly loved and banter that was hilarious. The premise is a little weird but completely unique, which is something I’m always craving in the rom-com genre. The entire story is unexpected and funny, and parts had me laughing out loud. I will admit that I haven’t seen the movie with the same title, so I can’t attest to if similar themes are shared between the two. But overall, I am so pleased I found this book and read it in a single sitting. Recommend for anyone looking for a quick, quirky, heartwarming read.
