theladysparks 's review for:

Roll For Romance by Lenora Woods

4.0

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For years, Sadie Brooks has declined her best friend’s standing invitation to join his Dungeons & Dragons campaign. But when she unexpectedly loses her marketing job and flees New York City to spend the summer with him in small-town Texas, she also runs out of excuses to say no.

In the game, she becomes Jaylie, a powerful and self-assured human cleric blessed by the Goddess of Luck with spells to heal her companions. But in real life, Sadie believes her luck has run out, and she hopes the distraction will give her time to clear her head and plan next steps.

She never expected Noah Walker—the handsome, outgoing bartender roped into joining them—to factor into that plan. Like Sadie, he’s new in town. But with a taste for adventure, Noah never stays in one place for long. He’s something of a traveling bard—just like his character Loren, the charismatic, lute-strumming elf. While Jaylie finds herself succumbing to the bard’s charms over the course of their party’s travels, Sadie also begins to fall under Noah’s spell.

As their relationship progresses in both worlds, Sadie can’t help but wonder if they might last beyond the game. But when a surprising new opportunity opens in New York, she must face the truth about why she lost her job in the first place—and whether she and Noah have found something in Texas worth staying for. Torn between her career dreams in the city and the exciting uncertainty of a new adventure, she will have no choice but to roll the dice.

"Luck is for all of you, my friends, if you are brave enough to seize it."

Thank you so much to the publisher, Dell Romance, for sending me an ARC of Roll for Romance by Lenora Woods. This book is a book that I swear was written specifically with me in mind and I really think it's just a love letter to nerds and those of us who are or have been on a journey to find where we might call home. Roll for Romance was such a unique and fun read and Lenora Woods seamlessly tells two stories that are linked together (a DND campaign and the life of the people who play those characters). As someone who loves DND, I found it to be such a fun read with a campaign that I was equally invested in as I was the main story being told between the main characters.

Sadie has run off to Texas post burning out at her job in New York. That pressure that she puts on herself and how it grows with each day closer to the self-imposed deadline was something that I found myself relating to. I appreciated her growth as a character throughout the pages and just found her character really fun and relatable to read about.

Noah is a dream boat. A cinnamon roll, a golden retriever, just generally the best kind of guy. It's always nice to see love interests in books that fall under this category and I especially loved his dynamic throughout the book with not only Sadie, but with all the supporting characters as well!

This was a very real feeling romance and I'm really excited to read more books from Lenora Woods in the future!

- small town romance
- they meet through d&d
- there is in-game interludes
- found family
- there's only one tent
- height difference
- he's sunshine
- she's dealing with burnout
- they fall in love in game and out