A review by loveleighreading
Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

emotional funny inspiring

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Title: Role Playing

Series: Standalone

Author: Cathy Yardley

Genre: Contemporary Romance 

Tropes/Keywords: Older characters. Cinnamon Roll MMC. Divorcee FMC. Gamers. Friends to Lovers.

Rep: Vietnamese-American author and FMC. Demi MMC. 

Pages: 331

Steam: Open door

Spice: 🌶/5

Star Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Audiobook: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Review: This is so much fun. Both of the main characters were loveable in their own way. It was funny and heartfelt. And I will be thinking about these characters for a long time to come.                    

Quotes: 

• She supposed she ought to feel sorrier about cockblocking the woman (or whatever the female equivalent of cockblocking was—clam slamming? cunt shunting?

• “I heard a lot of regrets, when I was working hospice,” he said, his gray eyes looking thoughtful. “There were regrets about what they’d done, and what they hadn’t done. A lot of them said they wish that they’d taken more risks. And even more said that they wished they’d lived the way they had wanted, instead of letting other people tell them what they should do, and living that way.”

• *screams silently in introvert*

• The idea that there might be an explanation for something he’d always felt like a freak about was eye opening. The thought that he wasn’t alone in it was more comforting than he’d ever realized.

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CW: Homophobia/Biphobia and outing of a character. Past emotional abuse. Body Shaming. Past Death of a parent.

Pregnancy?: No

Babies/Children?: FMC's adult son