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    Yes & I Love You by Roni Loren

    written by Dísir
    Yes & I Love You by Roni LorenYes & I Love You by Roni Loren
    Series: Say Everything #1
    Published by Sourcebooks Casablanca on 2nd March 2021
    Pages: 352
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    four-stars

    Everyone knows Miz Poppy, the vibrant reviewer whose commentary brightens the New Orleans nightlife. But no one knows Hollyn, the real face behind the media star...or the fear that keeps her isolated. When her boss tells her she needs to add video to her blog or lose her job, she's forced to rely on an unexpected source to help her face her fears.

    When aspiring actor Jasper Deares finds out the shy woman who orders coffee every day is actually Miz Poppy, he realizes he has a golden opportunity to get the media attention his acting career needs. All he has to do is help Hollyn come out of her shell…and through their growing connection, finally find her voice.

    It takes a while getting used to Roni Loren’s style of writing – effusive, word, sometimes overly dramatic – as ‘Yes & I Love You’ starts off with some deliberate (if imagined) flair of the painfully introverted Hollyn and the easy misunderstandings she gets into because of the little-understood Tourette Syndrome that she suffers from.

    Count me amongst the ignorant.

    Loren navigates disability and how some people fall by the wayside in a story that’s done sensitively and with aplomb, where her main characters still walk around with swagger and sass, handling life the best way they can…while finding love along the way. Their challenges are detailed but not weighed down with angst, their behaviour mature and perceptive enough that I knew by the halfway point that I wanted both Hollyn/Jasper to succeed together.

    In short, ‘Yes & I Love You’ grew on me by leaps and bounds, even if it started out a little hard. From their rocky start to a steamy finish, Hollyn/Jasper somehow roll their way through this with the likes of improv theatre, where the principles are merely saying ‘yes’ to hard things, and then powering forward with the plays you’ve got. Life mirroring art and vice versa: it’s a lovely parallel that Loren sets up throughout the narrative as her own meta about improvisation and life spills out from time to time in a way that hits both Jasper and Hollyn where it matters most.

    But Loren sets up a hurdle that neither Jasper nor Hollyn can see a way past, and predictably, it becomes the climax that blew me away as I powered through the last half barely taking a breath. I was certain that it was going to be ugly (and perhaps one that was going to get Hollyn and Jasper regressing into teen dramatics), but the fork-in-the-path-type problem that Jasper and Hollyn found themselves in was written in a way that pushed my right buttons so to speak, leaving an ending that simply left me happy as well.

    four-stars
    Yes & I Love You by Roni Loren was last modified: December 11th, 2020 by Dísir
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    Mission: Her Justice by Anna Hackett

    by Dísir 19th December 2020

    Mission: Her Justice by Anna Hackett Series: Team 52, #8 Published by Anna Hackett on 29th November 2020 Pages: 229 Buy on Amazon Goodreads When a dangerous redhead invades his…

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    Tamed by Alison Aimes

    by Dísir 15th December 2020

    Tamed by Alison Aimes Series: The Condemned #4 Published by Orchid Publishing on 20 August 2020 Pages: 380 Buy on Amazon Goodreads “Talk or suffer the consequences.” Ruthless warrior Grif…

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    Thanks for Last Night by Lauren Blakely

    by Dísir 11th December 2020

    Thanks For Last Night by Lauren Blakely Series: The Guys Who Got Away #3 Published by Lauren Blakely Books on 16th September 2020 Pages: 274 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Let…

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    Fatal Deception by April Hunt

    by Dísir 7th December 2020

    Fatal Deception by April Hunt Series: Steele Ops, #3 Published by Forever, Forever (Grand Central Publishing) on 10th November 2020 Pages: 266 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Roman Steele learned a…

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    A Lady’s Formula for Love by by Elizabeth Everett

    by Dísir 3rd December 2020

    A Lady’s Formula for Love by Elizabeth Everett Series: The Secret Scientists of London, #1 Published by Berkley on 9th February 2021 Pages: 336 Buy on Amazon Goodreads What is…

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    Bitterburn by Ann Aguire

    by Dísir 29th November 2020

    Bitterburn by Ann Aguirre Series: Gothic Fairytales #1 Published by Independently Published on 31st October 2020 Pages: 210 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Amarrah Brewer is desperate and grief-stricken.For ages, the…

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