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A review by angieinbooks
The Adventurers by Bryce Oakley
4.0
I’m somewhere between 3 and 4 stars on this.
Joey thinks her life needs a drastic reboot after her fiancée breaks up with her at their surprise engagement party, so she sells her furniture and packs her dog to move an hour away from home. [Okay, I’m mocking this a bit. An hour? That’s an everyday drive where I live. This is not the big deal that Joey makes it out to be.] So now she’s in the city without a sofa and without any friends and her job is remote. All this explains why she’s at the laundromat on a weekend night, where she sees a really hot woman talking to her bag. City life, eh?
When Joey’s dog gets sick, she quickly finds a vet. Turns out the new vet is the crazy woman talking to her bag, Kendall. There’s banter, there are jokes, there’s laundry to exchange. And somehow Joey has a new friend. A really wonderful and hot friend, who according to Kendall’s friend is perpetually single by choice. So turns out Kendall has some baggage too.
This is a really cute novel. Joey and Kendall come together in what feels like a really organic way and decide they’re going to have big and small adventures together—things they’ve been putting off or scare them but that they want to do anyway. I liked their journey. I enjoyed going on their adventures with them. I liked watching two people who challenge and support each other fall in love.
A solid 3.5 that I’m rounding up just because.
Joey thinks her life needs a drastic reboot after her fiancée breaks up with her at their surprise engagement party, so she sells her furniture and packs her dog to move an hour away from home. [Okay, I’m mocking this a bit. An hour? That’s an everyday drive where I live. This is not the big deal that Joey makes it out to be.] So now she’s in the city without a sofa and without any friends and her job is remote. All this explains why she’s at the laundromat on a weekend night, where she sees a really hot woman talking to her bag. City life, eh?
When Joey’s dog gets sick, she quickly finds a vet. Turns out the new vet is the crazy woman talking to her bag, Kendall. There’s banter, there are jokes, there’s laundry to exchange. And somehow Joey has a new friend. A really wonderful and hot friend, who according to Kendall’s friend is perpetually single by choice. So turns out Kendall has some baggage too.
This is a really cute novel. Joey and Kendall come together in what feels like a really organic way and decide they’re going to have big and small adventures together—things they’ve been putting off or scare them but that they want to do anyway. I liked their journey. I enjoyed going on their adventures with them. I liked watching two people who challenge and support each other fall in love.
A solid 3.5 that I’m rounding up just because.