Book info

• Title Call Me Maybe
• Author Cara Bastone
• Year 2020
• Genre Romance

Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It's amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service. Three hours when I should be getting the Date-in-a-Box website ready to launch at the big business expo in a few days. Except my shiny new website is glitching, and my inner rage-monster is ready to scorch some earth... when he finally picks up. Not the robot voice I expected but a real live human named Cal. He's surprisingly helpful and really knows his stuff, even if he's a little awkward... in an adorable way. And suddenly I'm flirting with him? And I think he's flirting back. And suddenly it's been hours, and we're still on the phone talking and ordering each other takeout while he troubleshoots my website. And suddenly we're exchanging numbers and sending texts and DMs every day, leaving voice mails (who even does that anymore?!) And suddenly I'm wondering if it's possible for two people to fall in love at first talk. Because I'm falling... hard.

Thoughts

Super quick read this one, a nice neat little story about two people meeting by happenstance and falling in love hard and fast in extreme circumstances. At first, I was a bit dubious because there’s no way a call centre employee could spend this much time on the phone with one customer, but there’s a twist that explains all that away. And I quite like that this relationship entirely grows and evolves on the phone. I don’t make phone calls wherever possible so it’s a strange world, but it makes for some interesting conversations.

Rating: 2 / 5