Matzah Ball Surprise, Laura Brown
Matzah Ball Surprise, Laura Brown
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Matzah Ball Surprise

Author: Laura Brown

Narrator: Kelli Tager

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/15/2022

Synopsis

This Passover is starting to feel like the ten plagues might be coming back to haunt them before the weekend is over . . . one hilarious misstep after the next.

Gaby Fineberg just wants to get through Passover Seder without her "well meaning" family playing matchmaker. She needs a date, just for one simple meal—that includes singing, the history of her forefathers, and not one bit of yeast. The hot guy at her gym would be perfect. He probably hates bread, anyway, with a body like that. But when she finally works up the nerve to ask him . . . he doesn't hear a word she said.

Levi Miller is deaf and happily single. Initially, he doesn't know why this beautiful woman is talking to him, but it's clear she needs help—and suddenly so does he. In a very complicated situation, Levi finds a simple solution. Gaby will pretend to be his new girlfriend to bail him out, and he'll return the favor. But he didn't bargain for a family dinner quite like this one . . .

Contains mature themes.

About Laura Brown

After spending her childhood coming up with new episodes to her favorite sitcoms instead of sleeping, Laura Brown decided to try her hand at writing and never looked back. A hopeless romantic, she married her high school sweetheart, though they didn't even go to the same high school! They live in Massachusetts with two cats with cerebellar hypoplasia, and an energetic kid who keeps them on their toes. Laura's been hard of hearing her entire life but didn't start learning ASL until college, when her disability morphed from an inconvenience to a positive part of her identity. It's important to her to create strong, competent characters with hearing loss, as she didn't have that growing up. At home the closed captioning is always on, lights flash with the doorbell, and hearing aids are sometimes optional.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather K (dentist in my spare time) on March 24, 2020

*2.5 stars* When I requested this book to review, I was pumped to find a Passover romance, and one with a deaf main character at that. It was both exciting and refreshing, and I couldn't wait to dive in. Of course, this year, my big at-home Passover seder with my extended family is completely cancell......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on December 15, 2020

Oh, my heart. I loved this book. I see the Christian side of my family reflected very often in romance, and in fiction in general. However, very rarely do I see stories where I recognize the Jewish side of the family. Matzah Ball Surprise is just such a book. Itโ€™s sweet, hilarious, uplifting, and ma......more

Goodreads review by Mara on February 21, 2020

3.5 stars -- I was totally charmed by the character and story of this one. Yes, it has it's faults (the writing is quite choppy in a few places, and the ending is rushed), but overall, I really appreciated 2 things: a) that the two key parts of the characters' identity (for both of them, that they a......more

Goodreads review by beachbum bookworm on March 24, 2020

To begin with I will always give a separate rating on my romances for their level of steaminess...that way if this is something that makes or breaks your potential to read a book, you are not wasting your time. ๐Ÿ’–very mild. Either no sex at all or just eluded to. ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ’– sex scenes are described in this boo......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on December 06, 2023

A fun Jewish fake dating romance that sees Levi and Gab, two strangers who meet at the gym, agreeing to be fake dates over Passover with their families. I loved the #ownvoices Deaf rep with the MMC and the way that communication challenges played a central part in the story. The two leads had to com......more

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