Role Playing
Ratings39
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Ratings39
Average rating4
From Cathy Yardley, author of Love, Comment, Subscribe, comes an emotional rom-com about two middle-aged gamers who grow their online connection into an IRL love story.
Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a deal―he’ll be more social if she does the same―she can’t refuse. She joins a new online gaming guild led by a friendly healer named Otter. So that nobody gets the wrong idea, she calls herself Bogwitch.
Otter is Aiden, a fifty-year-old optimist using the guild as an emotional outlet from his family drama caring for his aging mother while his brother plays house with Aiden’s ex-fiancée.
Bogwitch and Otter become fast virtual friends, but there’s a catch. Bogwitch thinks Otter is a college student. Otter assumes Bogwitch is an octogenarian.
When they finally meet face to face―after a rocky, shocking start―the unlikely pair of sunshine and stormy personalities grow tentatively closer. But Maggie’s previous relationships have left her bitter, and Aiden’s got a complicated past of his own.
Everything’s easier online. Can they make it work in real life?
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Overall I liked the story and the concept. The characters were nuanced and not perfect, but also believable and relatable at times.
I had issues with the latter half of the book when we find more about Aiden. I felt like certain things were rushed when they necessarily shouldn't be, especially given the circumstances. I think I would have liked to see Aiden and Maggie get together sooner but have more time in the story to let their relationship grow.
As an older gamer I loved this book. Fun, a break from normal reads and enjoyable.
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