Call Me Maybe by Cara Bastone Series: Love Lines #1
Also in this series: Sweet Talk
Narrator: Luci Christian, Neil Hellegers
on October 20, 2020
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
Length: 5 hours and 55 minutes
Format: Audiobook
Source: Audible
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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 Kal. 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 troubleshoots 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 to fall in love at first talk.Because I’m falling… hard.
I have really, really fallen in love with audiobooks over the last few years, and have been having so much fun growing my list of ones I love (and narrators I love). Call Me Maybe is probably the most fun I’ve had listening to an audiobook ever. Luci Christian and Neil Hellegers did such an amazing job narrating this book! It’s optimized and written to be an audiobook, and there’s sound effects (cars, meowing cats, etc.) and great acting. It felt like I was listening to a romcom! It was so much fun, that I know I will be listening to it again soon.
I loved the customer service aspect of this. I used to work in a call center answering phones, just like Cal (although, my time was hellish and it goes really well for these two). He answers Vera’s panicked tech support call and spends literal hours (and then days) working with her to figure out why her website is totally broken. She runs a business called Date-In-A-Box and will be presenting the service to vendors at an expo soon, but she can’t do that if the site is broken. Cal is the most dedicated customer service rep I’ve ever heard of. The two of them stay on the phone for an entire day because she’s too scared to lose him (and end up talking to someone not as great when she calls back), so he’s on the line working and she’s driving around, getting stranded in a not-so-great part of town, reading, lounging at home, etc. Every once in a while, someone will say something and the conversation flows for a while. They get to know one another, share stories, and really bond over this stubborn website. The story is a mix of their phone conversations, texts, and then their individual inner thoughts and lives as things progress. I loved everything about the story, the characters, their flirtations back and forth, and even the misunderstandings (I usually hate those). I listened to this with great anticipation and a smile on my face. The romance is so swoony, and I was sad to reach the end.
Pick this one up if you’re looking for a fun romcom with great acting and a sweet love story! I can’t wait to read (or listen to) more from Cara Bastone!
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