First-Time Caller

"I love this book it so cute. And hopeless romantic meets a radio host who doesn’t believe in love but they end up falling in love. I can’t wait for the next book in the series"

"First-Time Caller is a cute premise that isn’t quite able to stick the landing. I genuinely had fun for the first 20% of the book, and then after that, I found myself floundering. There’s a bit too going on in the plot, which a good portion is set up for future books that we didn’t need quite so much of. We could have used a montage of bad dates, or used William OR Colin, but we didn’t need both. Her daughter, Maya, speaks like a millennial, and certainly unlike any 12 year old I’ve ever encountered. And the banter never quite felt natural. As far as chemistry goes, Lucie and Aiden waver, they never consistently felt like they were ramping up to anything. There were occasions where I could see it, but then it disappeared as soon as it made an appearance. The number one thing I feel the need to say about Borison’s writing is that it’s overbloated. I’m not sure who her editor is, but they’re doing her a disservice. She could be really amazing if they were even a little more aggressive. This reads like a first draft edited for grammar, and not for story flow. There was no reason for this to be almost 450 pages. The daughter and her ex don’t really give much, outside of the inciting incident. We could have given them up and used that story space in other ways that would have been more effective. Or we could have given up some of the more plodding story bits where Borison triple explains to make the side characters more effective."

"All the rom-com feels in all the right ways."