Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event originally created and hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we are all eagerly anticipating. Jill has been MIA since August of 2016. Despite this, the meme lives on….Hope you come back Jill! Until then I will be joining Tressa at Wishful Endings and her meme Can’t-Wait Wednesday.
Happy Wednesday y’all! Today I’m eagerly waiting and excited to share with you Role Playing by Cathy Yardley. I have not read this author before, but let me tell you I cannot wait to read this one! I came across it scrolling through my emails (of all places!). The cover caught my eye, the title had me curious, but that blurb sold it. I am a low key gamer. I enjoy playing games when I’m not reading, so I am all kinds of excited to read this one…especially since the characters will be older than me for once 🙌🤣
Role Playing by Cathy Yardley Published by Montlake Romance on 2023-04-25
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?
About Cathy Yardley
Cathy Yardley is an award-winning author of romance, chick lit, and urban fantasy, who has sold over 1.2 million copies of books for publishers like St. Martin's, Avon, and Harlequin. She writes fun, geeky, and diverse characters who believe that underdogs can make good and sometimes being a little wrong is just right. She likes writing about quirky, crazy adventures, because she's had plenty of her own: she had her own army in the Society of Creative Anachronism; she's spent a New Year's on a 3-day solitary vision quest in the Mojave Desert; she had VIP access to the Viper Room in Los Angeles. Now, she spends her time writing in the wilds of East Seattle, trying to prevent her son from learning the truth of any of said adventures, and riding herd on her two dogs (and one husband.)
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Oh, this sounds intriguing! Being an avid gamer myself, I will have to pick up this book.
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Gamer here too, I love that it is a plot point for this romance and that the characters are older. Hope you enjoy it!
Cute pick! That’s a new to me one! I hope you thoroughly enjoy this one once you get to read it!
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How fun! I like the protagonists are older and online gamers. I will have to look for this one. I hope you enjoy it when you read it!
If you are a KU user, I believe it will be available there when it releases ☺️
This story sounds really cute. Like the other commenters, I like that the main characters are older. In most romances I’ve read, they are always quite young.
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