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    Role Playing
    Role Playing
    Role Playing
    Audiobook10 hours

    Role Playing

    Written by Cathy Yardley

    Narrated by Chris Brinkley and Elyse Dinh

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    About this audiobook

    From Cathy Yardley, author of Love, Comment, Subscribe, comes an emotional rom-com about two middle-aged gamers who grow their online connection into an IRL love story.

    Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a deal—he’ll be more social if she does the same—she can’t refuse. She joins a new online gaming guild led by a friendly healer named Otter. So that nobody gets the wrong idea, she calls herself Bogwitch.

    Otter is Aiden, a fifty-year-old optimist using the guild as an emotional outlet from his family drama caring for his aging mother while his brother plays house with Aiden’s ex-fiancée.

    Bogwitch and Otter become fast virtual friends, but there’s a catch. Bogwitch thinks Otter is a college student. Otter assumes Bogwitch is an octogenarian.

    When they finally meet face to face—after a rocky, shocking start—the unlikely pair of sunshine and stormy personalities grow tentatively closer. But Maggie’s previous relationships have left her bitter, and Aiden’s got a complicated past of his own.

    Everything’s easier online. Can they make it work in real life?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 1, 2023
    ISBN9798400115776
    Role Playing
    Author

    Cathy Yardley

    Cathy Yardley needs to get out more. When not writing, she is probably cruising the Internet, sleeping or watching D-list movies and adding to her unnatural mental store of character-actor trivia. She can hum along with all the theme songs on Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" and is learning Japanese from anime. She considers Daria a positive role model. Her family is considering performing an intervention for her addiction to pop culture. For those similarly addicted, drop her a line at [email protected]

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    • 5/5
      Listen, I am stingy with my five stars. STIIIIINGY.
      And this one is getting five stars from me.

      As a demisexual introvert, I had no idea going in that I would find so much relatable here. As a middle aged divorced woman, it was nice to see myself represented that way too. I'm not a gamer (AT ALL!) but I found those portions fun too.

      I'm a sucker for romances that evolve from friendships, and I guess that was my favorite part about this book. Especially since their deep bond started developing when both assumed there WAS no chance of romance.

      I'm also a sucker for books when either main character finds comfort and ease in the other lead that they aren't able to find in anyone else. And BOY was that the case here. :)

      The writing was strong and the plot and characters fresh. We all know that romances can get really formulaic, and there was nothing here that I found cliche'. I'm also a huuuuuuge Chris Brinkley fan, so that helped in my enjoyment of the audio.

    • 5/5
      A great middle-age romance with some bisexuality and demisexuality to boot!
    • 4/5
      This book is a charming and hilarious romantic read. Maggie aka Bogwitch and Aiden aka Otter make a cute couple. I love that they bonded over their love of role playing game. As my husband and i share a love of playing video, computer, and board games together. I actually got my husband turned onto computer games and he got me hooked on video games. It was nice to see Maggie open up and be her true self when she was playing with Aiden. Their connection showed that it was emotional first before it was physical. Connecting on the emotional level brought me closer to these two. Another lovely book by author, Cathy Yardley.