A Cosmic Kind of Love by Samantha Young
Releasing 18 October
Sweet, fun, sexy and intense, it’s an emotional friends-to-lovers romance with characters that you cannot help but love, and I was captivated from start to finish.
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Blurb
Space is the last thing an event planner and an astronaut need in this charming new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Samantha Young.
When event planner Hallie Goodman receives party-inspiration material from the bride of her latest wedding project, the last thing she expects to find in the files are digital videos from Darcy’s ex-boyfriend. Hallie knows it’s wrong to keep watching these personal videos, but this guy is cute, funny, and an astronaut on the International Space Station to boot. She’s only human. And it’s not long until she starts sending e-mails and video diaries to his discontinued NASA address. Since they’re bouncing back, there’s no way anyone will ever be able to see them…right?
Christopher Ortiz is readjusting to life on earth and being constantly in the shadow of his deceased older brother. When a friend from NASA’s IT department forwards him the e-mails and video messages Hallie has sent, he can’t help but notice how much her sense of humor and pink hair make his heart race.
Separated by screens, Hallie and Chris are falling in love with each other, one transmission at a time. But can they make their star-crossed romance work when they each learn the other’s baggage?
Review
4.5 stars!
This is such a gorgeous read! Sweet, fun, sexy and intense, it’s an emotional friends-to-lovers romance with characters that you cannot help but love, and I was captivated from start to finish.
Hallie is an events co-ordinator who is planning high-society wedding events for a new client. When she is accidentally sent videos from the bride’s ex-boyfriend, astronaut Christopher Ortiz from when he was on the space station, she is absolutely mesmerised. She knows it’s wrong to watch them, but she can’t help but be drawn to the gorgeous man on the video as he talks about his life and his experiences in space. She ends up sending her own video back to him, and even though it bounces, ‘talking’ to Chris felt good so she just keeps on doing it, even though her emails aren’t going anywhere. But it turns out her videos are being delivered, Chris is watching them, and he’s just as entranced with Hallie and the stories of her life. He knows he has to meet her.
Through conversations that they don’t know the other has seen, they get to know each other. So by the time they actually meet, they’re already half in love, and sparks fly from their very first encounter. They quickly become friends, sharing even more about their lives, Hallie’s issues with her almost chronic need to please others, and Chris feeling completely lost now that he’s back from space with his whole life ahead of him. Plus they’re both dealing with some pretty significant family issues. They are there for each other, supporting and encouraging each other, and they truly ‘get’ each other. All the while falling harder and harder for each other, and I loved watching it happen!
I wanted to belong to Hallie as much as I wanted her to belong to me.
And after epic build-up, a whole lot of will-they/won’t-they, and epic sexual tension, the romance comes, and it was everything that I was hoping for. It’s sweet and passionate with so much heart, it feels real, and develops so naturally. I loved these two together, and was in a world of swoony bliss right along with them.
“I love you.” My words were hoarse, gruff with the depth of the emotion. “I am so in love with you.”
The issues that Hallie and Chris are going through personally play out really beautifully in the book. We can see the influence that they are having on each other’s lives as they grow, deal with their issues and figure out where they want to be, and it’s such a satisfying journey for both of them. There is some drama that comes with that, but it make sense to the story and it’s handled brilliantly as a continuation of them sorting themselves out, and I loved watching them find their HEA.
“Being yours…that’s the only thing in my life I am one hundred percent certain I want and need to be.”
I loved this book. It’s that wonderful mix of humour, heart, passionate romance and emotion that Sam Young writes so well. I felt so much for these characters, I enjoyed every moment of their story, and finished the book with a big grin on my face.
4.5 stars
An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
Meet Samantha
Samantha Young is a New York Times and #1 International bestselling author from Stirlingshire, Scotland. On Dublin Street was Samantha’s first adult contemporary romance series and has sold in thirty countries. She has since published over 19 romance titles. When writing Adult Paranormal romance she writes under the pen name S. Young.
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