Call Me Maybe (Love Lines #1) by Cara Bastone
Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It’s amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service. Three hours when I should be getting the Date-in-a-Box website ready to launch at the big business expo in a few days. Except my shiny new website is glitching, and my inner rage-monster is ready to scorch some earth… when he finally picks up. Not the robot voice I expected but a real live human named Cal. He’s surprisingly helpful and really knows his stuff, even if he’s a little awkward…. in an adorable way.
And suddenly I’m flirting with him? And I think he’s flirting back.
And suddenly it’s been hours, and we’re still on the phone talking and ordering each other takeout while he trouble shoots my website.
And suddenly we’re exchanging numbers and sending texts and DMs every day, leaving voice mails (who even does that anymore?!).
And suddenly I’m wondering if it’s possible for two people fall in love at first talk.
Because I’m falling… hard.
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Vera Hoffman has just days to make sure her website for her new Date-in-a-Box business launches. When the darn thing glitches, she calls her IT company and connects with Cal Kantola. An intense week of phone calls, DMs, voice messages, and texts ensue, and in between troubleshooting, these two start to develop feelings. But will their systems be compatible when they actually meet face-to-face?
Review: Vera Hoffman is working hard to launch her business Date-in-a-Box and is worried when her new website starts glitching. She calls the IT company and is connected Cal Kantola. But Cal isn't just your run of the mill call center employee. He seems to genuinely care about her website and business and over the course of hours of conversation as he works to help Vera, the two strike up a rapport. As the two develop feelings for one another over the phone, they both question the other's interest and availability and hesitate to express their growing interest. Can they transfer their connection from the phone to real life?
This was such a fun listen! Some audio books are just read but some are true performances. The actors who read this piece fall in the latter category. The easy back and forth of their phone conversations, complete with sound effects, with so entertaining. While clearly not high literature, this was a delightful rom com and was just so fun to listen to. I really loved Vera and Cal's story and was highly entertained by this sweet little story.
Stars: 4
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