Getting His Game Back, Gia De Cadenet
Getting His Game Back, Gia De Cadenet
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Getting His Game Back

Author: Gia De Cadenet

Narrator: Jonathan Horvath

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/25/2022


Synopsis

“A thoroughly satisfying love story with a big, beating heart.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“This book is emotional, steamy and sweet—a triple threat! De Cadenet tackles mental health, gender stereotypes, and interracial romance with care and creativity. I loved it!”—Chantel Guertin, author of Instamom

Khalil Sarda went through a rough patch last year, but now he’s nearly back to his old self. All he has to do is keep his “stuff” in the past. Real men don’t have depression and go to therapy—or, at least they don’t admit it. He’s ready to focus on his growing chain of barbershops, take care of his beloved Detroit community, and get back to being the ladies’ man his family and friends tease him for being. It’ll be easy . . . until Vanessa throws him completely off his game. 

Vanessa Noble is too busy building a multimillion-dollar tech career as a Black woman before age thirty to be distracted by a relationship. Not to mention, she’s been burned before, still dealing with the lingering hurt of a past breakup. Besides, as her friends often remind her, she’ll never find a man who checks all the boxes on her famous List. Yet when she desperately needs a shape-up and happens upon one of Khalil’s barbershops, the Fade, he makes her reconsider everything. Khalil is charming, intelligent, sexy, and definitely seems like he’d treat a woman right . . . but he’s not Black. 

Vanessa may be willing to take a chance on Khalil, but a part of him is frustratingly closed off, just out of her reach. Will old patterns emerge to keep them apart? Or have they both finally found a connection worth throwing away the playbook for?

Reviews

Goodreads review by chan ☆ on September 13, 2022

suuuuch mixed feelings about this. lots of good but quite a bit i didn't gel with. more thoughts to come in september on my channel.......more

Goodreads review by Kezia on October 01, 2022

I was following this one and would consider going far as to say I was genuinely hooked. Unfortunately, this one started becoming cringy, corny, and just too much insta-lovey. I still really liked the conversations on interracial relationships and mental health, particularly among men. I found the cha......more

Goodreads review by susana ♡ on October 09, 2021

arc kindly provided by penguin random house via netgalley Getting His Game Back is Gia De Cadenet's debut novel, and one of the best books I've read this year. It's been a few months since I don't give five stars to a book, but I knew this one deserved them the day I started reading it. To begin with......more


Quotes

“Emotional, sweet, steamy . . . this smart rom-com has it all!”Woman’s World

“With this stellar debut, [Gia] de Cadenet thoughtfully explores the complexities of interracial dating and the impact of mental health on relationships. . . . Khalil and Vanessa set a high standard for couples with their patience, support, and respect for one another—combined with sizzling chemistry. The result is a thoroughly satisfying love story with a big, beating heart.”Publishers Weekly (starred review) 

“This book is emotional, steamy and sweet—a triple threat! De Cadenet tackles mental health, gender stereotypes, and interracial romance with care and creativity. I loved it!”—Chantel Guertin, author of Instamom