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Wild Life by Opal Wei
4.0

Wonky, sexy romp featuring a beleaguered Cancer researcher student, a former boy band shirtless bad boy turned animal rehab island owner, and a yowling, screeching cougar named Baby.

Zoey Fong and Davy Hsieh crash into each other at Zoey's lab, causing her to misplace her precious slide she needs for her research, and ending up with her on Davy's private island searching for the slide amidst his many crates of essentials he needs to survive mostly alone in solitude out there. What follows is a sexy romp as both Zoey and Davy immediately are attracted to one another and find themselves defending the other's quirks to everyone else they encounter. I had a blast reading this, and i hope you all do too!

Thank you to the publisher for the arc

Content notes: set in Canada, Zoey is Chinese-Canadian; Davy is Tawainese Canadian. Zoey's sister had cancer as a kid (she survives, is the reason Zoey decides to try to be a cancer researcher). Davy has social anxiety and was addicted to prescription pills (in recovery)