A review by books_ergo_sum
Set the Record Straight by Hannah Bonam-Young

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

This book had The Thing—

The Thing that I’m looking for in a lighthearted contemporary romance, except it’s so elusive that this kind of book only accounts for around 1% of my yearly reading—because I just can’t handle the disappointment. 

The Thing, being: a contemporary romance managing to keep it light, yet also hitting me right in the feels.

Because this was adorable. Sapphic childhood friends to lovers, fake dating, bi-awakening. A demisexual MC. One MC with ADHD, one MC with autism—but not in a twee tokenistic way, in a real and complicated way. This book said “Heck No” to miscommunication or withholding information tropes and it was just refreshingly honest and mature.

And yet, I read the whole last third of the book with this —> 🥹 ‘aww’ wobbly face. Because, without any cheap tricks, this book made me care about these two. So much.

It was magical. Especially because this is just a little 4.5 hour audiobook, like how? The audiobook was great, though. I love when a sapphic romance has two narrators, and they were killing it.