It’s easy to be critical of novellas because they are so short and there just isn’t time to develop much plot and tension. That said, I thought Lana Ferguson did a good job at creating a story by using the same day on three separate years. Year one, our characters meet and kiss, but she’s drunk and forgets the whole meeting. Year two, they’re set up on a date by their friends. He thinks he’s interviewing a roommate candidate, she thinks it’s a really odd date. Sparks eventually fly, and she finally remembers that they’d already met. Year three, they get their happy ending.

I didn’t love that the MMC’s social aversions were repeatedly labeled as him being shy/awkward/aloof but that he was a “nice guy”. It just felt repetitive and reductive.

Both the narrators were fantastic and influenced me listen to this audiobook.

This book was so good and super cute! I loved Cade and Nora’s romance. I just wished it was a little longer and I wished it had more dirty scenes. Other than that it was a super cute novella!

1) the narrators EAT this was excellent!!!!

2) you can absolutely never go wrong with lana and i will read every single thing she writes until the end of time. she packed so many cute moments into this novella and i sat and listened to it in one sitting. i’m obsessed with the way she writes banter, chemistry. and ofc the steamiest moments as well 🤭