Role Playing
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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Community Reviews
Slightly older couple than usually seen in rom-coms.
Love that they had interests outside of what’s usually written about (e.g., gaming, anime).
Like the demisexual rep.
What could be improved:
There was a lot of telling instead of showing. This might have benefited from flashbacks.
It did drag here and there.
A good read though. I would say, spice-wise, it’s a buffalo sauce.
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