Heather’s Bookshelf: Six Feet Apart: Love in Quarantine
Author: Elena Greyrock
Released: 02/04/21
Genre: Romance Novella- Part I of a Trilogy
“After two songs Stryker begins playing “Quarantina” with the crowd enthusiastically chanting the chorus, “Qua-ran-tina, Qua-ran-tina.” By this time everyone in the packed club has begun to break loose with excitement. The audience is rowdy while the social media kings and queens Luna invited are live streaming Stryker’s performance. Others are taking video clips and uploading them onto Flikrz and Facebooks’ stories. Luna loves seeing social media spread like wildfire right in front of her. Her plan is working!”
“Six feet apart: Love in Quarantine” takes place in 2025 NYC, where the pandemic is not only still around, but going strong. There’s all kinds of regulations and tracking which it make it both a fearful and hard-to-meet-someone era. Luna, a gorgeous, single, social media influencer is struggling to find her voice in her high-pressure job and a rhythm for her social life. But then she meets Stryker Caine.
Stryker is an Adonis. He’s also a musician and notoriously promiscuous…until the pandemic shuts down his mojo. His career is suffering and so is his love life. But then he meets Luna.
Intriguing (and gorgeous) enough to draw in Luna, they have a meet up where he invites her to see one of his sets. Luna and her bestie agree and soon a love affair ensues. And while Luna’s trying to get her social media influencer status off the ground, it’s Stryker’s secrets that threaten to end what they have found.
Trigger Warning: adult language, sexual situations (pretty raunchy at points, but hey…it’s a romance!)
Overall, I enjoyed this story. I honestly had a lot of reservations about reading anything that reminded me about the pandemic, but after reading/listening to this tale, I was glad I did. It was light, fun, and felt like an episode of a reality love match show—-in the best way. I do wish I felt more of a connection to the main characters. Both Luna and Stryker were pretty superficial and while I felt I could “see” them both, I did not feel like I knew them (besides their libidos). In the same way, I wish I saw more of a connection between the two of them-besides their sexual chemistry. I liked the evolution of each of the main characters and found Luna’s trek into the world of the rich and famous just as appealing as reading about a celebrity online—-also in the best way. I felt the book was absolutely geared toward women readers as pretty much every guy in the tale is awful, or a jerk, or both. I did like the ending, while a little bit of an open ending it felt finished enough to wrap up their introductory tale while leaving the possibility of future stories. I also thought the touches at the end with the song lyrics and the cocktail recipe were perfect for the tone of the tale. I will be trying a quarantini.
I ended up checking out this story on mixed platforms- ebook and audiobook. The audiobook was SOOOOO entertaining. The narrators are super emotive and drew me in immediately. I wish they would have sung the song lyrics, but it was a lot of fun to listen to.
I received a copy of this story in exchange of a fair and honest review.
OVERALL REVIEW:
A fun, witty romance novella set during the pandemic and filled with sex, rock, and quarantinis.
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