⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ “𝓛𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮, 𝓠𝓾𝓲𝓷𝓷. 𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓽𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓲𝓽. 𝓓𝓸𝓷’𝓽 𝓭𝓻𝓲𝓯𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓲𝓽 - 𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓽.” ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆

4.25/5

Tropes:
🎲 Forced Proximity
🎲 Yearning
🎲 D&D Party Members

What I Liked:
🎲 Quinn’s love for D&D and not being shy about defending it as a hobby to people who doubt its merit & importance in her life
🎲 Logan’s whole vibe. He was so charming, and his yearning was so sweet
🎲 How careful Quinn and Logan were regarding the feelings and rules of their other D&D party members
🎲 The found family, and seeing Quinn getting to join another group who loves her for who she is and didn’t stab her in the back

Final Thoughts:
🎲 This was so good. I loved Dungeons & Drama, but this had so much more established D&D and it felt like another love letter to it. Seeing the second love of my life, next to reading, celebrated in this way makes this an automatic win in my book. Thank you NetGalley and Delacorte for the advanced copy and the opportunity to review this early!

📚 Book Tour Review Dating and Dragons
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
By Kristyl Boyce
Pub Date February 4, 2025

Thanks @tbrbeyondtours & @kristylboyce for allowing me to be apart of this tour. Thank you Netgalley for the ARC.

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Quinn Norton is starting over at a new high school and hopes that joining a D&D game will be the trick to making friends. The plan sounds even better when she’s invited into a group that includes Logan Weber, the cute and charming guy she met on her first day of class. But this isn’t your average D&D campaign— this group livestreams their games and enforces strict rules: no phones allowed, and no dating other group members.

Quinn is willing to accept the rules, even if it makes Logan off-limits. And she quickly learns that doing so won’t be a problem, since Logan goes from charismatic to insufferable as soon as she agrees to join. As their bickering—and bantering—intensifies inside and outside the game, Quinn can’t help wondering: Is Logan’s infuriating behavior a smokescreen for hidden feelings? Quinn is risking it all, and the twenty-sided dice are rolling!

💭 My Thoughts:

This is a great Y.A. book for high school students. Especially for any that had to make mid school year changes (me). Quinn Norton story is great example of how students in high school feel while looking to migrate into new friendship groups when you literally know no one. This is an inspiring tale that shows that there is hope after friendship loss. The author did a great job capturing the emotional state of dealing with such transitions. I also enjoyed the family dynamics and their relationship with the grandma. She was hilarious throughout. If you like a story full of witty banter and teenage relationship drama this is a good one.

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A cutesy, little, ya romance for all the gamer nerds! I don’t know anything about Dungeons and Dragons but it was not hard to comprehend. Sometimes YA romance feel so juvenile but Kristy was able to transport the reader back to simpler times and still make it fun and relatable.

I'm not quite sure how Kristy Boyce manages it, but she can make me smile through an entire book. I loved Dungeons and Drama last year, and her sequel, Dating and Dragons, is every bit as delightful! You don't have to read the first book to dive into the second—each stands on its own in this lighthearted D&D series. BUT you’ll definitely want to read both!

Quinn (our MC) transfers to a new high school midway through the year after a disastrous fallout with her former friend group. On her first day, she meets Logan, and there is an undeniable spark between them. Later, she is invited to join a high school Dungeons & Dragons club with a strict rule against dating fellow club members. The catch? Logan is also a member of the club.

What I loved:
✨Fun Romance Tropes: gaming romance (dungeons & dragons - live feed), slow burn/forbidden romance with the “no dating” rule in the D&D group - so cute, so sweet
✨Wonderful Side Characters (great representation): a friend group that proves how real friends act, and I especially loved Grandma (my favorite character). The pickleball chapter—what a hoot!

Abigail Reno delivers an outstanding narration of this story. She captures Quinn’s voice and essence flawlessly! Her portrayal perfectly embodies teenage angst and that swoony yet awkward experience of young love. I love how she also changes her voice for the other characters, making it a thoroughly enjoyable audiobook.

What a perfect YA romance. Kristy Boyce created an equal balance of teen drama, D&D and relationships. What set this book above all other YA romances I have read was the different relationships that are so important to the idenity of our FMC, Quinn. Of course there is the romantic relationship that blossoms between Quinn and Logan, they are so adorable, just the sweetest. I loved the interactions between all of the members of the group. Each of the members played their own role in the game in their relation to Quinn. The dialogue between Quinn and her brother Andrew was a typical brother-sister relationship but it was so heart warming, I defintely could relate and it made me smile. Now, the realationship between Quinn and her Grandma Barabara was so full of heart and we were able to see a sneak peak into her declining health. It is not a main plot point, but I did appreciate the layered issues that the reader was able to see that all affect and made Quinn into who she was. Even though this is a story that has a central commonality between all of the friends, they play D&D together, it is so much more than that. If you aren't familiar with D&D Boyce makes the game easy to follow for the novice and doesn't overwhelm the reader. While this is a second in a series, you don't need to read the first book to understand this story, it seems to be more of a companion novel to the first.

This is the coziest YA romance!

This book is the second installment in Kristy Boyce's Dungeons and Drama series, but you don't need to have read the first one, Dating and Dragons is a standalone. I’ll preface this review by saying that I haven’t read the first book, but after finishing this one, I definitely plan to!

Quinn is new at school and believes that joining a Dungeons and Dragons campaign is the perfect way to make friends. The group has two rules: no phones and no dating other members. What could possibly go wrong? Ha!

It features a very low-stakes forbidden romance, complete with charming teen banter and plenty of pining.

I feel like this book healed a part of my past teenage self. Even as a 30-year-old woman, I found it to be a warm, cozy hug. It’s the perfect read for snuggling under a blanket with a D20 mug!

Thank you to Kristy Boyce, Random House Childrens, Delacorte Romance, and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Please know the drama in this book is very low stakes, so I actually consider this a cozy book. The romance between new girl in school Quinn and Logan has a lot of smoldering but the D&D group's rule of no dating other group members puts a hamper on it. It forces more character development and more of a buildup. The side characters are easy to tell apart and some are very fleshed out (looking at you, Barbara!) I love how the drama of Quinn's former group did play a part in her story, but not in a crazy wild unrealistic manner. It was honestly refreshing how real this book was. I kept expecting something overly dramatic and chaos inducing, but it was grounded and sometimes I need something like that.

Dating and Dragons by Kristy Boyce is the second book of the Dungeons and Drama series, but it is a standalone novel with a separate set of characters from Kristy Boyce's first novel. This book is absolutely just as heartwarming and precious as the first novel. Quinn just moved to a new town and new school with her family in the middle of the school year. When her grandma makes some random kids take their pictures, she quickly finds a group of friends in them. This book is a fun, flirty, and sweet young adult romance novel, With themes of found family in true friendship. The drama and gaming in this book were fantastic and fun. Dating and Dragons are whimsy and represent real struggles with friendships, crushes, and ex-friends. Overall, I had a great time with this book and would highly recommend it!

Thank you to Net Galley and Kristy Boyce for the review copy!

4🌟

This book was SO fun & so cute!! I haven’t read YA romance since i was in highschool, but this one 100% was the perfect reintroduction to them! I loved how the story developed and also focused on friendship, their D&D campaign (loved this as a d&d nerd), and the relationship between her and her grandma!

Logan and Quinn were so so fun to read about. The slowburn and tension between them was so well done! I loved the mix of forbidden romance and teenage love, it was so cute! I also LOVED how the quality time they spent together mixed with Logan being a genuine friend added so much to their development!

Also, love love the female friendship in this book and how Quinn finds new friends that respect & love her! It was so cute.

Even if you are not familiar with D&D or even YA romance, I highly recommend giving this book a try because it was adorable :)

i thought this series would be interconnected and I’m a bit sad it isn’t, but this was still a fun standalone in the series. Quinn starts a new school and joins a dnd grouo with a no dating rule but of course she’s very interested in her forbidden fellow player Logan. I thought this was cute and I love that the author in inclusive and merging dnd with romance, this book had a lot more actual game play in it too which I think dnd fans will appreciate!

This book was a fun read with plenty of cute moments, especially if you're into nerdy characters and quirky dynamics. The romance had its ups and downs, but overall, it was sweet and engaging. Some parts felt a bit predictable, but if you're looking for a light-hearted, feel-good story, it delivers. Definitely worth checking out if you're in the mood for something heartwarming!

I simply adored this book!

Kristy Boyce’s books are like a warm hug, and I swear this one healed a bit of my inner high schooler. While I can’t relate exactly to what Quinn went through, I did go through my own friend group implosion and watching her open up and find a new friend group that welcomed and protected her was so satisfying.

What I appreciated about Quinn and Logan’s relationship was that none of the conflicts felt too contrived. You could feel the pull between the two characters, top-notch chemistry, but you could also understand why they wouldn’t want to break the rules and act on their feelings for the sake of the group.

An unexpected highlight for me was the depth to the relationship between Quinn and her brother. While he seems like a jock who gets whatever he wants at first, you come to see how deeply he cares for Quinn, and I loved reading the scenes where they get more vulnerable and open up to each other.

From the romance to the lovable supporting characters, this was such a lovely YA romance and I highly recommend picking it up!

This was so fun and cute! I love that dungeons and dragons gets it's romance moment in a flirty YA book

Thank you for the opportunity to read an e-arc of Dating and Dragons. I absolutely loved it! Kristy Boyce is officially an auto-buy author for me.

If this book had come out one day later, it would have been one of m, most anticipated reads of 2025. I really really loved the first book in this series and was so excited to reenter the world of hyper nerdy, cute, YA romance. In the way of teenagers, this book was appropriately dramatic. I loved how this book really leaned into the real D&D elements and was so fun and geeky. I especially loved the grandma. As always a lil 'we shouldn't date' is wonderful drama for a book.

I really enjoyed this and am thrilled to see some fun YA come out that I would have loved as a teen.

4.5/5

LOVED IT 🩷🥹
Made me want to learn how to play D&D myself!!
Also.. I really want to be like Barbara when I'm her age 😊

After loving dungeons and drama, I was overjoyed to see this hit my email. I adore this concept and I love the aspect of how D&D heavy this story was. The romance felt very sweet and there were so many moments that I thought were very precious between the two MC’s. This story felt very wholesome and I loved the strong emphasis on friendship throughout the whole group’s campaign.

This was everything I knew it would be and more. As someone who moved around a lot when I was a teen, I really loved the anxiety about moving and starting over while having to work through the emotions of leaving your old home behind.

Our main characters were so adorable with their mutual pining, actually their whole group was both fun and adorable with their interactions.

So if you enjoy:

Ya Romance
Friends to lovers
Dungeons and Dragons
Nerdy times
Mutual pining
“I’m going to pretend you don’t like my brother”
Pickle ball shenanigans
Fiesty elders

I highly recommend giving this a read and definitely check out the first book!

This is possibly one of the cutest YA romcoms I've ever read! I love a good forbidden romance, I love it even more when it's for a silly reason like not breaking up a d&d romance. This book is single POV and will have you rooting for these kids the whole time.

Posted to GR 1/6/25

What a entertaining way to spend a few hours-- sure, we have high school angst but it's mostly sweet yearning for what they can't have. I loved the Dungeons and Dragons integration within the book as well as the parts about her parents not caring as much as her brother with sports (as the artsy daughter, I understand her pain). A great second book in the series and can't wait for the next one.

Who knew I'd love high school romances so much!