Review: Ruby Barrett's THE FRIENDSHIP STUDY.

Thanks to the publisher & Netgalley for the complimentary e-ARC and the publisher for the complimentary hardcopy. All opinions provided are my own.

A story about two lonely people who become best friends & lovers?  Not only did the steam really get to me in Ruby Barrett’s The Friendship Study, but the emotions did too.

This book is hot. It also has a scene where the grumpy hero adopts a grumpy cat  & the adorable, brilliant heroine also has a fave tree & likes to talk to herself. They also paint each others’ freaking toenails & unbeknownst to me, this is something that makes me swoon.

Both of the leads, Jesse & Lulu, are at a bit of loose ends when the book opens. Jesse’s life status gives me some Roni Loren’s What If You & Me vibes (need I say more?). Lulu is trying to establish her own life as a professor outside of her brilliant professor-dad’s shadow.

When they find each other, there’s instant chemistry. But it’s the friendship they show to each other, the acceptance, the home they provide, that really got to me.

5⭐️. Out now!

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[ID: Jess’s white hand holds the book in a greenhouse.]