Can't Escape Love
Ratings10
Average rating3.9
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Ratings10
Average rating3.9
Alyssa Cole delivers another fun, sexy romance novella in the Reluctant Royals series! Regina Hobbs is nerdy by nature, businesswoman by nurture. She's finally taking her pop culture-centered media enterprise, Girls with Glasses, to the next level, but the stress is forcing her to face a familiar supervillain: insomnia. The only thing that helps her sleep when things get this bad is the deep, soothing voice of puzzle-obsessed live streamer Gustave Nguyen. The problem? His archive has been deleted. Gus has been tasked with creating an escape room themed around a romance anime…except he knows nothing about romance or anime. Then mega-nerd and anime expert Reggie comes calling, and they make a trade: his voice for her knowledge. But when their online friendship has IRL chemistry, will they be able to escape love?
Series
3 primary books5 released booksReluctant Royals is a 5-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Alyssa Cole.
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Super low-conflict friends-to-lovers romance, works better if you've just read A Duke by Default, because a lot of the main character's family conflict is detailed and resolved in that book (which stars her sister). I like Reggie a lot but I felt like Gus could use more development. This is still a lot of fun, but read as a companion piece to Book #2.
4,5★ sólidos!
2nd) it still good!!
1st) A autora escreve muito bem novellas e esse é o “problema”evidenciado na série. Nesse conto curto, o drama é reduzido, a resolução dos problemas em uma página não é corrido, e isso torna a estória redonda.
*4.5 stars
Puzzles, nerdery ahoy, online friendship that blossoms into more, autistic mc, fabulous heroine who takes no shit, great chemistry, a couple who actually communicates...was this book written for me???
My only complaint is that it was a novella and thus by default moved too quickly for my tastes. I really wanted to delve deeper Gus and Reggie's relationship, as well as the characters themselves. But it was still terrific, and I'm very glad I didn't skip it (like I do most novellas).
Note: I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator was fantastic!
Also, 10/10 would watch that anime.
