By Annie Crown
Star rating: ★★★★★
Blurb
The bookworm and the basketball player are about to meet their match. Kendall Holiday spends her Friday nights exactly where she wants to with her head buried in a spicy romance novel while she works the graveyard shift at her university's library. She knows she could join her friends for a weekend of drunken debauchery and college parties, but she likes her alone time, so she tells herself she isn't hiding when she gets lost in the pages of fictional love stories. But that all changes when Vincent Knight, captain of the basketball team, turns up with an injured wrist, a sour mood, and a pressing need for poetry recommendations for a class he hates. Vincent is tall, smart-mouthed, and challenges Kendall like no one has before. Suddenly, she's falling headfirst into her very own romance novel—but it takes a lot more truth than tropes to get to a happy ever after in real life. NIGHT SHIFT is a 75k-word sweet and spicy single-POV college romance perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Hannah Grace, and Elena Armas.
Genre: New Adult Romance
Read if you Like:
🏀 College romance 🏀 Anxiety representation 🏀 Virgin heroine 🏀Basketball star hero 🏀Heroine who loves romance
My Thoughts:
Night Shift is an adorable rom-com about an anxious introvert falling for the star of the basketball team. It made me smile so much and is the perfect new adult book!
I loved that Kendall and Vincent were both shy and a little unsure. I have a soft spot for heroes who don't know what they are doing. I also really liked seeing how Kendall's overthinking led to problems. As an overthinker myself I can relate. I thought this book did pretty well at describing what having an undiagnosed and unrecognized anxiety disorder might be like though symptoms could be more severe than Kendall's are.
This book also played with romance tropes which I am always a fan of. There were a few moments where I was worried it was going to say we should live in the real world not read romance but it ended up with a good message about doing both.
Overall I think this one is a great romance for anyone who likes reading about college kids falling in love. I think Annie Crown did a beautiful job capturing the excitement, awkwardness, anxiety and cuteness of falling in love at that age.
Thanks to Netgalley and Wattpad books for providing me with this one in order to review. All opinions are my own.
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