A review by giuliaghoulia
First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison

5.0

I AM A PUDDLE OF TEARS! I AM SITTING IN MY CAR BLUBBERING LIKE A LITTLE BABY OVER WORDS ON PAPER!!

there's no way to describe how much i love this book other than that it was WRITTEN for me! just for me! bk borison sat down, peered into my brain, gathered all of my hopes and dreams, and descriptions of my dream man and stirred it into this incredible romance novel. and i thank her for the invasion into my soul!

i am a nora ephron girlie so knowing that this was a "sleepless in seattle" inspired story already had me so so excited, but it was the characters that kept me reading and made me fall in love.

lucie is my mirrorball lover girl and i love her so much! i have never read about an fmc who so perfectly describes the loneliness i feel even when surrounded by the best family in the world. bk borison perfectly captured the longing for intimacy and connection that all of us like lucie are feeling and it felt like a sucker punch to my chest every time i was in her pov.

and aiden..... god, i love him!!!!! my perfectly imperfect man who deserves the world!! there's just something about a broken man who doesn't believe in love/doesn't believe he is capable of love that will do it for me every single time! being in his pov and reading the way he sees lucie and talks about her melted me down to ash! he's so down bad obsessed with her and i want one just like him!!

the side characters were also everything to me! maya is the coolest 12 year old in the world, and jackson clark???? oh i need him!

bk borison is my god and i will read whatever she publishes for the rest of my life! she just gets me and writes the most "me" books and i'm just so happy to have read this book.

thank you Berkley romance and Netgalley for this earc, it's out everywhere on 2/11!