Drop, Cover, and Hold On by Jasmine Guillory
It takes nothing less than a fateful natural disaster to throw two opposites together in a ground-shakingly charming short story by the New York Times bestselling author of Drunk on Love.
This Valentine’s Day, Daisy Murray has her heart set on binge-watching rom-coms. Instead, an earthquake traps her inside a bakery with its impossibly rude and insufferably handsome owner and head baker. They already have a history: she’s always smiled, he’s always scowled. Where better to finally get to know each other than amid the disaster? Then again, they have no choice. Besides, it could have its sweet, undeniable, and unpredictable perks.
Jasmine Guillory’s Drop, Cover, and Hold On is part of The Improbable Meet-Cute, irresistibly romantic stories about finding love when and where you least expect it. They can be read or listened to in one sitting. Let’s make a date of it.
Author Profile
Jasmine Guillory is a New York Times bestselling author of nine novels including The Wedding Date, the Reese’s Book Club selection The Proposal, and Flirting Lessons. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Bon Appetit, and Time, and she is a frequent book contributor on The Today Show. She lives in Oakland, California.
Review
It was… supposed to be a short and sweet romance, I guess?
Notes
7%
local, Black-owned business.
Shabana Mukhtar: seems like box-ticking to me, like let’s include a black MMC
8%
Whenever she walked inside, he would turn to look at her, and the scowl on his face got at least 50 percent scowlier.
Shabana Mukhtar: Ok, first moderately funny line.
10%
she was too fat
Shabana Mukhtar: yep, definitely ticking boxes, black MMC, fat FMC…
11%
Didn’t she remember when she’d come back to tell them that they’d accidentally given her three pastries instead of two? She went back to the bakery and tried to pay for the third one after she’d realized what had happened, but he’d just barked “Never mind!” at her and turned away. He’d made mistakes like that a bunch more times, but she never bothered to tell him anymore, even though she sort of worried that his bakery must be losing a ton of money if he was messing up that much.
Shabana Mukhtar: She dumb!
12%
Maybe those extra pastries were because he was trying to fatten her up so he could eat her, like a fairy-tale villain.
Shabana Mukhtar: Funny!
24%
She would blame it on stupid Harris Cook, New Yorker, not earthquake-proofing his bakery, except that she could tell by how long and deep the shaking had been that it was a big one. That’s what she said.
Shabana Mukhtar: +1, just for “The Office” reference.
65%
“Right, right, there’s that.”
Shabana Mukhtar: Since 25% mark, I have skipped more pages than I have read so I guess it’s not for me? I can’t keep going. Sorry.
The Final Verdict
DNF’d, feel so bad for not finishing a short story, but I just wasn’t in it
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