49. Live and Let Grow by Penny Reid

listened on Audible/AudOriginal

narrated by Joe Arden and Fiona Fischer

Unabridged audio (1:33)
2021
75 pgs. - Novella
Adult CRF Novella
Finished 5/8/2021
Goodreads rating: 3.96 - 193 ratings
My rating: 2.5
Setting: Contemporary America

My comments: If this protagonist doesn't have Aspberger's I'll eat my hat.  Gorgeous girl doesn't dare tell her gorgeous hunk of a best friend that she loves him, while for years he's felt the same way and didn't tell her for fear of how she'd react.   So one evening, after FIFTEEN years, they fall into each other's arms immediately getting it on with him asking her to marry him, then and there.  Oh, ad of course there's the selfish sister that keeps talking easily-impressionable Alice to questions herself.  Okey-dokey.  Cut and stupd and either too much for not enough, I'm not sure.

Goodreads synopsis: 

          ‘Live And Let Grow’ is a 14k word (short) contemporary romance of long-suffering unrequited love and can be read as a standalone.

 Alice is in love with her best friend. Now all she needs to do is tell him.

          Best buds Milo Manganiello and Alice Hooper have been the one constant in each other’s lives for over fifteen years. The charismatic and compassionate physics professor was there when Alice got married, and he was there ten years later when she got divorced. Likewise, the candid and kind computer science professor has always been there for Milo. She babysits his apartment and plethora of houseplants when he’s traveling and they share breakfast together every day he’s in town. Alice wasn’t always in love with Milo, but the feeling has grown, and when Milo returns from his latest globe-trotting adventure, Alice decides it’s time to spill the seeds.     

          Does Alice have the grit to confess? And will feelings take root? Or is hers a love destined never to bloom?