If you don’t live in New Jersey, you probably weren’t aware of a crisis that started in February and was resolved just a few weeks ago. A bunch of sinkholes were discovered underneath a major highway, one that thousands of people used every day to commute from the suburbs to the more urban areas, including New York City. My commute of 40 minutes turned into 90 minutes, and I know it was even worse for others. I was driving home from work one of those days, stuck in the terrible mess of alternate routes, and I wasn’t in the mood to listen to music. Shocking, if you know me. So I started browsing through the audiobook section of Spotify and I came across this absolute gem of a novella that led to me buying the entire series in book form.
After listening to this novella in its entirety, I knew I wanted to read it even though I had just finished listening to it, and from there I wanted to immediately move on to the rest of the series. I was beyond ecstatic when I saw that there were three large novels waiting for me plus two more novellas, and I believe future works to come. But this, this right here, seventy three pages of almost pure smut.
Rachel is sitting in a bar, trying to drink away her sorrows after receiving some disappointing news. She wants to be alone, but some drunk trust fund boy is chatting her up, oblivious to how irritated he is making her. Just before she can blow up in his face, in walks Jake. He gets her, he can sense that she wants to drink in solitude, so he gets rid of the guy by pretending that they know each other and were planning to meet up this whole time. Good guy Jake plans to ignore Rachel for the remainder of her time there, or at least until the yacht club bro and all his friends leave, but to his surprise, she starts talking to him.
Things happen pretty fast after this. Once they leave the bar the rest of the novella is pretty much a non stop, multi round one night stand that is plenty descriptive. I was impressed. Not just with how the moments were described but by the way the author expressed that the two were kind of real life soul mates. They certainly have a few things in common, and they seem to think the same way at times, but the most enrapturing thing is the way their bodies are so in sync. And this is just a prequel to the love cyclone that is Jake and Rachel. It gets even more intense in the full length novel, which I will tell you all about next week.
Nonfiction and Nonsense 