Review Detail of ealdgyth in One Wild Night

I really am not into romance novels. The few titles I have reviewed and added to my library have mostly been more of ships embedded into action or fantasy/ xianxia. But this was one of the books in an event I was interested in. I told myself, well, I’ll read it for the badge. How bad can it be? 😅 The first chapters—of a staid office girl dreaming of doing something outrageous for her birthday—drew me in. How relatable is that? Haven’t we all had similar fantasies at one point in our lives? But as the story progressed I met more interesting characters, and before I knew it, I had covered more chapters and minutes than the event required. This novel has all the elements of a good story, that goes beyond the usual girl-meets-boy, and how girl will get boy storyline. (Which is why I hate most romance novels.) Here, one is immersed in the consequences of the MC’s choices—how that one brilliant idea she thought she had sparks one complication after another. You’ll laugh, you’ll cringe, you’ll facepalm. But most of all, you’ll want to bring out the pompoms and cheer for Lucy, the cluelessly dorky MC, to go, go, go! One of the things I love most about this novel is how each of the characters are well formed. Each has a uniquely identifiable personality, even in their dialogues. So much so that it sometimes reads like a script. One can actually imagine what they’ll look and sound like, if they were live persons. So if you’re looking for a love story that has a real plot (beyond fluff and snu-snu), this is it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.