Saturday, August 7, 2021

85. Call Me Maybe by Cara Bastone

listened on Audible
2020
250 pgs. estimate/audio only
Adult RomCom
Finished 8/7/2021
Goodreads rating: 4.16
My rating: 4
Setting: contemporary Brooklyn & NJ

My comments:  Another delightful Cara Bastone romcom.  I read them out of order, but it was okay.  Extremely cute, happy, upbeat.  HEA, this one with no epilogue, thank goodness.  Pretty much the entire book was listening to the conversations that the two protagonist had on the phone, and listening to their personalities meshing.  No steam, no sex, completely clean.  Set in Brooklyn and New Jersey, so much fun!

Goodreads synopsis:    True love is on the line in this charming, laugh-out-loud rom-com—created specifically for the audio format!

Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It’s amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service. Three hours when I should be getting the Date-in-a-Box website ready to launch at the big business expo in a few days. Except my shiny new website is glitching, and my inner rage-monster is ready to scorch some earth… when he finally picks up. Not the robot voice I expected but a real live human named Cal. He’s surprisingly helpful and really knows his stuff, even if he’s a little awkward…. in an adorable way.

And suddenly I’m flirting with him? And I think he’s flirting back.
And suddenly it’s been hours, and we’re still on the phone talking and ordering each other takeout while he trouble shoots my website.
And suddenly we’re exchanging numbers and sending texts and DMs every day, leaving voice mails (who even does that anymore?!).
And suddenly I’m wondering if it’s possible for two people fall in love at first talk.

Because I’m falling… hard.

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