Not His Girlfriend (Yet): 4 1/2 Dates and a Fracture by M.T. LiuMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Nora Chen and Ethan Morin have been on four and a half dates when a freak accident lands Ethan in the hospital with a broken pelvis. Is she his girlfriend? They've only kissed twice and one of those was an accident.
Nora feels like she has to be perfect all the time. She spends hours before every date getting ready, plastering on make-up so she always looks pristine. Carefully schooling her features, her voice, even her breathing. Always scared that her authentic self is too much, too big, too loud.
Ethan is a firefighter who feels like he has to downplay everything and is afraid to ask anyone for anything (including help) because when he leans on someone they always leave.
Can forced proximity face these two lost souls to drop the façade and be real?
This is a difficult book to review, I see from NetGalley that it is a novella (although it didn't feel that way reading it) and it sort of makes sense because there's a whole lot of nothing much happening and not a lot of backstory as to why Nora and Ethan feel they have to behave the way they do. Also, I'm not sure on what grounds they fall in love. It was pleasant enough but I wasn't enthralled enough to download the free epilogue.
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