Role Playing, Cathy Yardley
Role Playing, Cathy Yardley
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Role Playing

Author: Cathy Yardley

Narrator: Chris Brinkley, Elyse Dinh

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2023

Synopsis

From Cathy Yardley, author of Love, Comment, Subscribe, comes an emotional rom-com about two middle-aged gamers who grow their online connection into an IRL love story.Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a deal—he’ll be more social if she does the same—she can’t refuse. She joins a new online gaming guild led by a friendly healer named Otter. So that nobody gets the wrong idea, she calls herself Bogwitch.Otter is Aiden, a fifty-year-old optimist using the guild as an emotional outlet from his family drama caring for his aging mother while his brother plays house with Aiden’s ex-fiancée.Bogwitch and Otter become fast virtual friends, but there’s a catch. Bogwitch thinks Otter is a college student. Otter assumes Bogwitch is an octogenarian.When they finally meet face to face—after a rocky, shocking start—the unlikely pair of sunshine and stormy personalities grow tentatively closer. But Maggie’s previous relationships have left her bitter, and Aiden’s got a complicated past of his own.Everything’s easier online. Can they make it work in real life?

About Cathy Yardley

Cathy Yardley is an award-winning author of romance, chick lit, and urban fantasy. She has sold more than 1.2 million books with publishers like St. Martin’s Press, Avon Books, and Harlequin. She writes fun, geeky, and diverse characters who believe that underdogs can make good and that sometimes being a little wrong is just right. She likes writing about quirky, crazy adventures because she’s had plenty of her own: she had her own army in the Society for Creative Anachronism, she’s spent New Year’s on a three-day solitary vision quest in the Mojave Desert, and she had VIP access to the Viper Room in Los Angeles. Now, she spends her time writing in the wilds of eastern Washington, trying to prevent her son from learning the truth about any of said adventures, and riding herd on her two dogs (and one husband).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bookishrealm on June 22, 2024

See, I need more romances with older characters. The maturity speaks to me on a completely different level. CW: pan/biphobia, distressing family dynamics. 4.5 Stars Role Playing is everything that I need in my adult romances. It follows two main characters, Maggie and Aiden, who are older, each deali......more

Goodreads review by Emma Griffioen on August 20, 2023

what a hidden gem - role playing is a unique romance, perfect for introverts and video game fans! 🎮 🤍 this adorable romance follows maggie, a 48 year old, empty nester who is a bit of a hermit, trying to figure out life alone now that her son is off to college, and aiden, a 50 year old who moved back......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on July 13, 2023

This book was EVERYTHING!!! A geeky, queer, slow-burn romance with older characters. A prickly heroine with social anxiety whose son just went off to college befriends a man in an online gaming group who she assumes is like 21, but is actually 50. Also this has unexpected queer rep that was beautifu......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on June 25, 2024

This book was so ridiculously cute and utterly charming! I need more romances with older characters because the nuance, maturity, and history added so much to their dynamic and the richness and depth of these characters. I love that we had a male bisexual and demisexual love interest, and while ther......more

Quotes

A New York Times Best Romance of the Year“Chris Brinkley and Elyse Dinh pair up for a delightful performance in this fresh nerdy romance.… Dinh's and Brinkley's performances have the right intense beats when narrating gameplay. The romance unfolds more slowly so that listeners can savor its moments. Both narrators depict the genuine struggle faced by characters who are coping with life's new chapters and finding joy in unexpected places.” —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner“If ever there were a story for our times, Role Playing…is it. …deftly narrated by the team of Chris Brinkley and Elyse Dinh who are able to bring the entire story along with its distinctive characters to life in a true theatre of the mind experience for the listener.” —Midwest Book Review“Elyse Dinh's narration…hits her stride once Maggie and Aiden meet IRL. Chris Brinkley, who narrates for Aiden, captures the rumbling, warm nature of this lovable character. Yardley's (Ex Appeal) latest is a perfect fit for patrons looking for heartwarming, slow-burn romances featuring middle-aged characters.” —Library Journal

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