⭐️⭐️⭐️✨(3.5)

🎧🎧🎧(2)

Genre: Romance {open door}

Format: Audio via Libby ( Callie Dalton)

Published: Feb 13, 2024

Soundtrack: Nonsense – Sabrina Carpenter

With salacious and witty banter, a bad boy athlete in need of a career rescue, and an independent, kind-hearted fan turned caddy, Fan Girl Down had the making of a knockout read. Yet, as my first full Tessa Bailey novel (I did enjoy her novella Same Time Next Year), this fell short.  

Wells Whitaker and Josephine Doyle had great one-liners and tension; I felt their attraction was more physical than emotional. Wells’ conduct makes him unlikable, and while he improves his golf game and attitude, there is no character development. In terms of romcoms, the amount of plot was par for course, aka slim. Although, the epilogue was sweet. 

Perhaps using the audio for this one led to my mediocre experience. Wells has much to say about their bedroom (and shower and golf cart) rendezvous and the narration is uncomfortable. The blunt language was a lot for me, but I think that is Tessa Bailey’s style based on my scanning of reviews for her other books. 

🩺Type 1 Diabetes🩺: I would be remiss if I didn’t comment on diabetes management. Having access to insulin and needles, managing highs and lows, the need to count carbs, and having to plan more for travel is an everyday reality. Two qualms: Josephine mentioned she would rather be low than high. While both extreme highs and extreme lows can be an emergency, low blood sugar will kill someone significantly quicker than high! Additionally, she irritatingly kept referring to T1D as her “condition”; with close care, diabetics live “normal” lives.

Overall, I still enjoyed it (in that I couldn’t put it down, but I also was zoning out). I plan to pick up the next book in the series (their meet cute was alluring), and I actually sent this paperback to my sister ( surprise! It is literally in your mailbox). Moving forward, I will avoid dual POV audios that are not dual cast. 

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