Love in Focus, Lyla Lee
Love in Focus, Lyla Lee
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Love in Focus

Author: Lyla Lee

Narrator: Natalie Naudus, Catherine Ho

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Forever

Published: 05/27/2025


Synopsis

Delilah Green Doesn't Care meets The Bold Type in this sapphic rom-com where two exes are given a second chance at love.  

When her boyfriend of seven years suddenly breaks up with her, relationship advice columnist Gemma Cho is convinced that real love doesn’t exist. As a bisexual woman who’s had zero luck with both men and women, she’s ready to give up on her own romantic prospects. That is, until she's paired up with world-renowned photographer Celeste Min on a potentially career-saving piece on modern love.    

Celeste is extremely talented and sexy, and would be the perfect collaborator and rebound for Gemma—if it weren’t for the fact that she’s Gemma’s ex, the one that broke her heart in college and moved to a whole other country before Gemma could even make sense of what went wrong between them. Heightened by the unmistakable sparks that still fly between them, Gemma and Celeste struggle to keep their relationship strictly professional. For the sake of her career, Gemma needs this piece to do well. And for the sake of what’s left of her beaten up hopeless romantic heart, she wants to fall head over heels for Celeste again. 

But can she trust Celeste to feel the same this time around?

About Lyla Lee

Lyla Lee is the bestselling author of young adult novels like I’ll Be the One and Flip the Script. She also writes the Mindy Kim series for younger readers and the Gigi Shin books for the middle school crowd. Her books have been translated into multiple languages around the world. Born in South Korea, she’s since then lived in various cities throughout the United States. Inspired by her English teacher, she started writing her own stories in fourth grade and finished her first novel at the age of fourteen. After working various jobs in Hollywood and studying Psychology and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, she now lives in Dallas, Texas. Visit Lyla at LylaLeeBooks.com or on Instagram, X (previously known as Twitter), and TikTok @LiteraryLyla.


Reviews

Goodreads review by ashlyn on May 30, 2025

They had history. They had tension. They had… potential. I wanted to be wrecked, ruined, fully spiraling but instead it felt like watching a romcom on mute. Still cute, still cozy, just not the heart squeezing magic I was hoping for Thank you Netgalley for the arc💗......more

This was so cute!! Love in Focus is a sapphic second chance romance where college exes end up working together in their late 20's and rekindle something. It's got great bisexual rep and has Korean characters, talking about a lack of queer Asian elders because of sexuality often being kept quiet. It'......more

Goodreads review by megan ◡̈ on April 28, 2025

this book was so insanely cute!! it was easily bingeable while on my long drives this weekend and i found it so easy to be captivated by gemma & celeste. i found them to be very relatable and sweet. i had no clue this was a second chance romance and was very pleasantly surprised to find that out as......more

Goodreads review by DianaRose on May 21, 2025

firstly, thank you to the publisher for an arc and an alc! this was my first book by lyla lee, and while some dialogue/descriptions were a tad too cringey and corny for my taste, overall i enjoyed this second-chance sapphic romance! (although the second-chance aspect came about due to a LACK of commu......more

There’s a Korean word, inyeon, for the fated destiny between two people. this was cute, but felt a touch less romcom-y than the cuffing game. i normally don't like second chance romance, but it was done well. The beauty of being bi, I learned, is that you can get rejected by both women and men. gemma h......more


Quotes

“Lee finds a spot alongside Jenny Han and Stacey Lee in representing the diversity of Asian American experiences. A joyful protagonist who speaks to Generation Z."—School Library Journal

“Those who appreciate imperfect but endearing heroines will be happy to pick this up.”—Publishers Weekly