4.75⭐️ 2.5🌶️ 4.5🎧 

 

Relationship dynamic: MF 

Tropes/Microtropes/Vibes/Reps: 

📚 College 

🏒 Sports (hockey) 

💖 Friends to lovers 

🔥 Slow burn 

📖 Athlete x tutor 

👩🏻‍💻 Woman in STEM 

 

Book Publisher: Atria 

Audio Publisher: Simon and Schuster 

Narrators: Caitlin Elizabeth + Bradley Ford 

Narration type: dual 

Writing perspective: first person, dual POV 

Standard length (pages): 461p 

Standard length (time): 14:01 

Listening speed: 2.5x 

Listened via: LibroFM 

Read via: Kindle 

ARC/ALC provided by: Atria + NetGalley / Simon and Schuster + LibroFM 

 

📖 Matty and Ro… they are so easy to love. I fell for them both almost instantly. Yet, they didn’t feel lovable for so long. I could feel their loneliness coming right off the page. They were both broken in very different ways and they needed each other’s friendship so badly. And then they needed more. They needed each other to learn what a healthy, trusting, loving relationship looks like and Peyton handled all of that with such care. Matt and Rosalie were each other’s biggest advocates. I LOVED the scene where Ro stood up for Matt in the academic review for his math course. The hate I felt for their respective exes was next level… 😡 

 

🎧 This dual audio performance was enjoyable all the way through! Caitlin Elizabeth is a new to me narrator and I thought she did a great job! She has a medium to high pitch female voice with a clear distinction between her inner dialogue and speaking voices and a nice lower pitch for her male voices. She expressed such a wide range of emotion and kept me so engaged! 

Bradley Ford was also a great pick for Matty. He pulled off that broken boy masking as a golden retriever so well and you could just feel the emotions through every word in the angsty parts. Bravo to both narrators!