Review: Gigi, Listening

Gigi, Listening by Chantel Guertin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.5 stars

This book was a sweet novel about finding out that want you want may not necessarily be what you need.

Gigi falls in love with the narrator of a romance novel. I mean, head over heels, nearly stalkerish love! So her best friends save up and buy her a trip to where this man works for a touring company. They hope that he and Gigi will find themselves to be a match made of romance novels. Of course, this is not how it works out.

I found some of the interactions of the many people on this tour bus to be more interesting than anything that happens to our protagonists. I haven't found a book yet where the secondary characters interest me just a tiny bit more than the main characters...but there you have it.

This is a romance -so expect the necessary happily-ever-after, but in a bit of an unexpected way.

*ARC supplied by the publisher Kensington Books, the author, and NetGalley

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SYNOPSIS: From the Canadian TV personality and author of the instant hit, INSTAMOM, comes a touching and witty novel with emotional depth—perfect for fans of Christina Lauren or Sophie Kinsella—about the life-changing journey of a woman smitten with an audiobook narrator taking an impulsive trip to England to meet the man behind the mic.

Gigi Rutherford loves love stories. She reads them, she sells them at her romance bookstore, and she could spend hours imagining the meet-cutes of every couple she encounters. but when it comes to her own love interests, Gigi is out of stock. Instead of enduring bad date after bad date, these days she'd rather curl up with hr favorite audiobook and the only man who makes her heart skip a beat: Zane Wilkenson, the smooth-voiced narrator Gigi is convinced is her soulmate.

Then, she's presented with the chance of a lifetime: a ten-day bus tour through the English countryside, an ocean away from her bookstore—all in the presence of Zane, in person, as he leads the tour. But when Gigi arrives at the bus terminal in London, Zane is nowhere to be found. Until he shows up, she's stuck with an eclectic group of fellow travellers: recently widowed and chatty Charlotte; trivia-obsessed Francis; Jenny, a true-crime-makeup YouTuber documenting every detail for her subscribers; and Sindhi and Roshi, a long-married couple who can't stop bickering. Then there's the brooding bus driver, Taj, who Gigi, finds infuriating yet also incredibly alluring...

With heart and charm, warmth and humor, Chantel Guertin explores the meaning of love and family—and how, sometimes, the journey to yourself is where you'll find everything you've been searching for.