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Stealing Sunshine by Hannah Cowan
5.0

5⭐️ 3🌶️ 5🎧

Producer: Lyric Audiobooks
Narrators: Andi Arndt + Kristen DiMercurio
Narration type: dual
Writing perspective: first person, dual POV
Standard length: 11:40
Listening speed: 2.2x
Listened via: BookFunnel
ALC provided by: Hannah Cowan

Tropes: small town, fake dating, forced proximity, roommates to lovers, grumpy x sunshine, mutual pining
Relationship dynamic: FF

📖 Bryce and Daisy—Frosty and Sunshine—are absolute perfection! Hannah’s first sapphic romance completely blew me away. I love these characters, their story, and their support for each other. Bryce is a bisexual, grumpy, tell it to ya straight, covered in tats girl that will stand up to anyone but her less than supportive family. Daisy is a sweet, empathetic, sunshine girl lesbian with a super supportive family. Daisy needs a place to stay and after Bryce offers up her spare room, Daisy offers up a fake dating scenario to get Bryce’s mom to stop setting her up with men she has no interest in dating—ever. But these opposites have one hell of an attraction and things don’t stay fake for long. 
I adore Bryce and Daisy’s relationship so much. They were both so caring and protective of one another. While Daisy was definitely the softer of the two, she had such fierce moments standing up for her girl! And Bryce could be icy, but she was also so vulnerable and always put Daisy first. These two are seriously the best! Hannah outdid herself!

🎧 Kristen DiMercurio and Andi Arndt are the perfect Bryce and Daisy! Kristen nailed Bryce’s icy and edgy demeanor and also did a fantastic job with Daisy’s voice, transitioning to a higher, bubblier voice! Andi also did an amazing job capturing Daisy’s fun loving spirit, while also showing her strength and bravery. This duo blew me away and I truly can’t imagine anyone else as the characters I love so much!