By Sarah Ready
Ghosted Book 2
Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️
Audiobook rating: 🎧🎧🎧
Blurb
For Serena Otaki, free-spirited Californian, life is simple. She loves smashing atoms at The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. She loves Star Trek, spicy tofu, and her cat, Captain Purrk. She loves her messy (slob-fest) apartment, her chaotic brand of organizing, and staying permanently, happily unattached.
Life is perfect. She has one true love—physics.
Loving a man isn’t in her future.
For Henry Joules, uptight Brit, life is simple. He loves making analog black holes, drinking piping hot tea, and organizing his pencil tray. He loves his family, red meat, and obsessively cleaning his spotless apartment.
Life is perfect. He has many loves—physics, family, friends. He can’t wait to find the woman of his dreams.
Love and marriage are in his future.
One perfect night Serena and Henry meet. Sparks fly, particles collide, the universe comes to a halt, and…
It was a mistake.
They’re too different.
It won’t work.
Love isn’t in their future.
Until an electric storm causes an unexpected event at the particle collider and suddenly—they’ve switched.
Serena is in Henry’s body.
Henry is in Serena’s body.
And both life and love are suddenly very, very complicated.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Read if you Like:
⚡Instalove
⚡Romcom
⚡Body switch
⚡One night stand
⚡Fake dating
My Thoughts:
I have been super excited for Serena's story ever since I read Ghosted! I really enjoyed Serena and Henry's story though the tone is a bit different from Ghosted with less angst and more romcom.
One thing that was really interesting about this story is that we got to meet both Serena and Henry's families and see how their experiences with relationships growing up shaped their fears and expectations about relationships as adults. The body-switched element really let them connect with each other's families in a way they probably wouldn't have otherwise.
I also liked that Henry and Serena got to experience each other's tastes and even memories in some cases. There were times when I wasn't sure I agreed with what was connected to the body and what was connected to the consciousness but I didn't feel like that was the point of the story so I didn't mind too much. It did lead to some comedic situations such as them trying to speak in each other's accents.
I did wish some of the storylines had gotten a little more closure. I would have liked to understand more about what caused the switch and a bit more about Serena's mother and what caused her experience of love to be so different from Serena's.
Overall, I thought this was a really fun romcom and the magical element made it an interesting read. I do like the idea that love causes a little bit of magic.
🌶️🌶️ - There are two steamy scenes and some kisses in this book. It is fast burn then slow burn.
🎧🎧🎧 - I listened to the audiobook version and I didn't love it. It is dual narrator but its mostly Serena's POV so Kelsey Navarro Foster reads most of the book. This must have been really challenging because she had to do Henry as Henry, Serena as Serena and each as the other and they change accents throughout the book. I think if you are picky about accents and are going to be distracted by that read the book version.
Thanks to Netgalley and Sarah Ready for the ALC. All opinions are my own.
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