Little Blue Truck's Beep-Along Book

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Levi’s familial troubles are painful to read about, but Georgie’s unending support for him (and his perfect dog, Hank! That said, I've read this ages before y'all can, I'm so sorry, but this is going to be my favorite romance of 2023. Georgie is impulsive, flighty, flexible, funny, a great organizer of others’ time and things, and she’s confused about her future. And as happens in most contemporaries, just as the protagonist makes some resolution on the main goal or journey, it ends.

the book did not need to open with georgie thinking to herself in the car, we should've been thrown into plot much quicker. Oh… and did I mention that she’s house sitting for her parents and finds she unexpectedly has a roommate… the gorgeous and troubled hermit Levi Fanning. Especially, I think, in the way it interrogates the "flighty, quirky, disaster heroine" archetype with Georgie. Not everyone has to have lofty ambitions to be happy and Georgie’s realization that she was happy being just the way she is and all she needed was the space to be herself is a beautiful message that this story offers. He was the town troublemaker when he was young and the older brother of Georgie’s high school crush.

Plus all the things I loved most about it were skimmed over more than I'd like, mostly Levi and his siblings and Georgie actually figuring out what she wants.

Touching upon themes of loneliness, isolation, family, friendship, love and kindness, this is a story that will strike a chord in your heart. For instance: you know that scene in The Hating Game, when Lucy defends Joshua from his awful father? I appreciated everyone who rounded out this story so nicely, from Georgie’s parents, to her bestie, Bel, to Levi’s estranged siblings, and *most especially* Levi’s dog, Hank! All of these books are about conflict and resolution, but the characters fall out for different reasons – Rainbow Fish thinks too much of himself, George won’t share, Hummingbird doesn’t respect boundaries and Something Else wants a Friend who is just like himself. I highlighted the heck out of my digital copy, I would love to have an annotated edition of this cleverly crafted romance.There was a part about 85% of the way through that I remember liking and thinking, “aww maybe this will have a strong ending! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. And it seems that she does live there… but it was written like a low budget movie character might speak in a Southern accent. I mean, they’re fine, but they always felt oddly heteronormative to me as well as occasionally disconnected from who the characters.