Yes & I Love You by Roni Loren is one of those books you put down at 10:30 p.m. and grab again within 15 minutes of opening your eyes the next morning.
It’s a millennial romance that takes place in a co-working space in New Orleans between a woman who writes an entertainment review column and an improv performer/ office barista. Hollyn, the writer, has social anxiety and Tourette’s and part of her MO in using the co-working space is to overcome that anxiety and start interacting with people more.
Jasper, the improv guy, has been in that in-between space of trying on careers, but nothing quite sticks. But he knows he loves improv.
A tentative friendship turns into a practice dating arrangement turns into more than either of them planned on. Yes & I Love You normalizes neurodivergence, handling it forthrightly as Hollyn works through her anxiety.
It’s sensitive, swoony, and sexy — everything I’ve come to love in a Roni Loren story.
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