Emergency contact

For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind.
Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him. 

When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.

Good morning good afternoon good evening I hope everyone is having an amazing summer so far we are more than halfway through the year and that it’s nuts to think about anyways I am back from a huge huge reading sump. I’m not gonna lie I have picked up a couple of books and in one occasion I was about to finish it and I was just pushing myself too hard at that moment so I decided to stop there and not finish it. However I am so glad I gave myself time to reconnect and now I’m stronger than ever and back hopefully for a long time if I don’t get burned out quickly so yeah let’s just get into today’s review.

But first before we talk about today’s book are you wanted to give a huge shout out to all of my Australian readers out there that are in lockdown at the moment my heart is with you all and I hope you’re doing OK, I hope you’re staying healthy and I hope you’re staying sane and mentally doing OK. my advice would be keep close the people that you love, keep contact with them lockdown has done so much damage to so many relationships and I think being in touch with people that makes you happy it’s so important especially during this times. also try to get in some movement, whatever that may be,  maybe is doing a yoga flow, or maybe it’s Pilates or going for a walk if you can, go for a run to clear your mind, just do some thing that is not just looking at the news and looking at social media that could be so hard as well so yeah hope you are staying safe and that you were doing OK which is the most important thing.

All right so now let’s get into the actual book review. I read this book because I have previously read yolk which I will leave the  review right here if you haven’t read it, it is definitely one of the best books that I’ve read in 2021 so far zero doubt so since I loved so much the authors writing style I decided to try another of her books to see if it was just as good as yolk was for me. I decided to pick up emergency contact not in any particular reason I just wanted it to read it, I was in a mood for a romance contemporary and since I wanted to read another of Mary HK Choi books I decided to pick up this one. 

For me the romance at the beginning of the book was very slow I was halfway through the book and felt as if not a lot has happened (romantic wise) they did developed tho a very nice relationship, I really did like the progression that they had as friends and getting to know each other but not necessarily as romance interests which for me was a bit slow and it didn’t really ended up happening. 

I did really enjoy the fact that they were texting, the message format was super interesting and It made it very easy to read and quick and you felt as if you were flying through the story however sometimes the conversations were interesting but not so much that a chapter was all about it. it was a little bit too much in depth and it had nothing to do with the actual story and was kind of getting out of the way but still I did enjoy them and I did found them very very interesting.

I also feel like I missed more time of them together obviously the whole book was the texting format and them getting to know each other with text messages and calls and all that stuff but still I did missed a little bit more of contact.  

One thing I can say, and that is that this is not your average romance book at all they were so mature and they were so real, they felt like real people, with real struggles and with really normal lifestyle which is something that I loved about Mary HK choi books she always does that and I love it.

Also the fact that they bond on their past and their struggles and that they created this amazing relationship based on that and based on where they came from was amazing and was so incredible,i will say it definitely has some TW so have that I mind ifyou decide to pick it up. 

For me while I was reading this book I thought OK this is a three star read it is a good romance nothing too special but when the end was coming I started crying and it suddenly became a 4.5 star read right at the very end of the book I don’t know why I don’t know if I was emotional when I was reading this I don’t know if it was very late at night and I was feeling really emotional but I loved the ending of this book, it was everything, I loved the way that the mother and the daughter relationship wrapped up and how they overcame their differences and created this very special relationship and I also loved how the romance story finished as well. it was so heartwarming and I just loved , I wanted to hug them I wanted to get into the book and hug both of them it was amazing it was incredible and my mind changed 100  at the very end of this book like two last chapters were everything.

So like I said before, this is for sure a 

4.5/5⭐️

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