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A review by rosiehyde
An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Wow, wow wow!! This is my absolute favourite romcom of the year! An Academic Affair is such cute, funny, heartstring-tugger of a book. It’s a story about love, not just romantic love but sibling love too.
Sadie Shaw and Jonah Fisher are academic/work place rivals and have been since they first met at university. They’ve battled each other for honour medals, PHDs and jobs with the scores being pretty evenly settled as neither have landed a full time lecturer role. When their dream role finally opens up the day after a heart to heart in their shared house kitchen they decide to try and put their differences aside and trick the university into a partner hire.
I absolutely adored Sadie and Jonah, I loved how feisty Sadie is and Jonah is such a sweet, charming, cinnamon roll character (wife not actively crying, Jonah doesn’t feel like he’s dying). I loved how even though they fought, they never made out that each other were anything less than smart and more than capable at their jobs.
The tropes used in the book were well done (one bed in the hotel room!! he falls first!!! inject it into my veins), marriage of convenience usually doesn’t do it for me but this was so well written and made sense to the story that I really enjoyed it. I thought the writing was so smart, it sucked me in immediately and I finished it in one day! In particular I loved the literary themes throughout and Jonah’s footnotes.
The side characters were also very well developed, keeping my fingers crossed for spin offs with all of them (and future peaks into Sadie and Jonah’s life!).
Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the ARC, this book was an absolute delight to read!
Sadie Shaw and Jonah Fisher are academic/work place rivals and have been since they first met at university. They’ve battled each other for honour medals, PHDs and jobs with the scores being pretty evenly settled as neither have landed a full time lecturer role. When their dream role finally opens up the day after a heart to heart in their shared house kitchen they decide to try and put their differences aside and trick the university into a partner hire.
I absolutely adored Sadie and Jonah, I loved how feisty Sadie is and Jonah is such a sweet, charming, cinnamon roll character (wife not actively crying, Jonah doesn’t feel like he’s dying). I loved how even though they fought, they never made out that each other were anything less than smart and more than capable at their jobs.
The tropes used in the book were well done (one bed in the hotel room!! he falls first!!! inject it into my veins), marriage of convenience usually doesn’t do it for me but this was so well written and made sense to the story that I really enjoyed it. I thought the writing was so smart, it sucked me in immediately and I finished it in one day! In particular I loved the literary themes throughout and Jonah’s footnotes.
The side characters were also very well developed, keeping my fingers crossed for spin offs with all of them (and future peaks into Sadie and Jonah’s life!).
Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the ARC, this book was an absolute delight to read!