A review by rainbowsandbookshelves
Hard Drive by Shae Connor

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.25

Thank you Pride Book Tours and Netgalley for gifting me the ebook.
This is an LGBTQ+ book with a bisexual main character and sapphic female love interest. It also touches on mental health as the main character has anxiety so how if affects her and how she deals with it is explored.
Hard Drive is book two in The University of Atlanta series but can be read as a standalone - the first book Rough and Tumble is a standalone with gay love interests and the main characters are present in Hard Drive.
Hard Drive is a really fun and easy romance, with lots of LGBTQ+ representation. It comes across as a bit like a sports romance, with the main love interest playing softball, but a lot of the problems the characters deal with go deeper than that. Discussions of anxiety, grief and previous toxic relationships are all mentioned between the main characters but also the side characters, too.
Hard Drive is told by the POV of Annie, and I really enjoyed seeing her relationship with her brother as well as meeting him as a character. The relationship between Annie and Eve is also fun to see develop and I liked to see how much they grew as characters.

Expand filter menu Content Warnings