Drop, Cover, and Hold On by Jasmine Guillory Series: The Improbable Meet-Cute #4
Also in this series: Rosie and the Dreamboat, With Any Luck, The Exception to the Rule
Narrator: Aure Nash
Published by Amazon Original Stories on January 23, 2024
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy
Pages: 40
Length: 1 hour and 5 mins
Format: Audiobook
Source: Audible
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It takes nothing less than a fateful natural disaster to throw two opposites together in a ground-shakingly charming short story by the New York Times bestselling author of Drunk on Love.
This Valentine’s Day, Daisy Murray has her heart set on binge-watching rom-coms. Instead, an earthquake traps her inside a bakery with its impossibly rude and insufferably handsome owner and head baker. They already have a history: she’s always smiled, he’s always scowled. Where better to finally get to know each other than amid the disaster? Then again, they have no choice. Besides, it could have its sweet, undeniable, and unpredictable perks.
Drop, Cover, and Hold On is another book in the Improbable Meet-Cute series, but my least favorite of the ones I finished (I read 4 of them and DNFed 2). As the title of the series suggests, this book is all about two love interests meeting. And then it’s over. So there’s no actual romance in these “rom-coms”. Knowing this before jumping in will most likely help you enjoy the books more because you will go in knowing that the book will end before things get good. lol. This story is about the owner of a bakery and the woman who can’t stand him but keeps coming in because she loves his pastries. Enemies to lovers is one of my least favorite tropes because they’re usually full of contention and sometimes toxic behaviors. If they’re done right, I love them. This… was not done right. The story is just too short to resolve an enemies to lovers kind of relationship. They don’t get to know one another at all, but I feel like I can’t really get into anything specific without spoilers. Let’s just say there was no development and the conversation was extremely shallow. I don’t know how you can go from disliking someone so much to wanting to jump in bed with them in such a short amount of time, especially when there’s just been a major earthquake and maybe you should be checking on your family and your house, perhaps. I loved the pastries and was hungry hearing about them, but other than that I was not a fan. I suggest you skip this one.