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A review by librarypatronus
Grounded by Amanda Radley
3.0
Thanks to Netgalley and Bold Strokes for the ARC of this!
I’m glad I have the whole trilogy to binge through because these are such slow burn. The characters had kissed by the end of book one and I think it took last half of this one to get to a second kiss. It’s less a romance and more a contemporary focused on two people who happen to be falling for each other - the focus seemed to be on Olivia’s work drama and Emily’s parenting and custody situation for a large chunk of the book. The one thing that kind of bothered me was that a character mentions Olivia is Puerto Rican, as kind of a throw away comment, never to be brought up again except for when she one time speaks Spanish to be romantic to Emily…it felt kind of like checking off a diversity box that the author had forgotten to mention in the first book? (I read the old edition, not by Bold Strokes, of the first book because that’s what my library had, so maybe it was mentioned in the newer edition, and was added later?) Overall, I thought it was fine but very, very slow. I love Henry, he and his giraffe obsession is the cutest.
I’m glad I have the whole trilogy to binge through because these are such slow burn. The characters had kissed by the end of book one and I think it took last half of this one to get to a second kiss. It’s less a romance and more a contemporary focused on two people who happen to be falling for each other - the focus seemed to be on Olivia’s work drama and Emily’s parenting and custody situation for a large chunk of the book. The one thing that kind of bothered me was that a character mentions Olivia is Puerto Rican, as kind of a throw away comment, never to be brought up again except for when she one time speaks Spanish to be romantic to Emily…it felt kind of like checking off a diversity box that the author had forgotten to mention in the first book? (I read the old edition, not by Bold Strokes, of the first book because that’s what my library had, so maybe it was mentioned in the newer edition, and was added later?) Overall, I thought it was fine but very, very slow. I love Henry, he and his giraffe obsession is the cutest.