Thank you Netgalley for sending me the eARC in exchange for an honest review.
Love and Other Risky Business is a friend to lovers romcom with lots of spice, particularly female sex positivity. There's great LGBTQ+ rep with a bi main character and LGBTQ+ side characters.
I'll start by saying I'm not a big fan of friends to lovers and unfortunately this book showed me why. I do like it if it's done well or if we see a couple become friends then develop feelings and a relationship but I felt there was no build up here - just a lot of pining and lack of communication. I feel like there was very little development of the story - a career altering injury which could have been really explored and the start of a new career path. There was potential for a lot more depth that didn't really go anywhere, particularly for Timothy. I found that both of their stories were really put to the side of them constantly talking about how much they love the other. It was immediately about Timothy crushing on Mina for years but I didn't really find I got to know them. I do think this is part of my wariness of friends to lovers - I don't find that we really get to know why the characters actually like each other or see them interact in a way that develops strong feelings.
I did enjoy the spice elements, especially the idea of pleasure for both of them that you don't often find in m/f romances. You may want to look up content warnings though if spice isn't for you! I really enjoyed how Timothy's bisexuality was explored and think that was done well but the synopsis said Mina was demi-sexual and I didn't really pick up on that at all.
You can also really see the story that will be for two side characters and I actually wish we'd have got to know a bit more about them, especially Jessie, in this one but I do understand that they'll clearly be getting their own story next.
Overall a 2.5/3 stars read for me but if friends to lovers is something you enjoy this may be the one for you!