What happens when a misanthrope meets the one person she doesn't want to be without?
Reese Walker doesn’t like people. What she likes is silence and being left alone. The thing she loves most about recording audiobooks is that she doesn’t have to leave her Chicago apartment to do it. And she hasn’t for nearly a year. But with an unavoidable bill going to collections that puts her sister’s treatment at risk, she has no choice but to take a job that pushes her out of her comfort zone.
After a disastrous blow to her career, Arden Abbott needs a comeback. Step one: a successful book launch, including an audiobook. She doesn’t trust anyone else to oversee every aspect of the project. It has to be flawless. Arden knows she’s ready to resume the life she had before her dreams fell apart, all she has to do is …
What happens when a misanthrope meets the one person she doesn't want to be without?
Reese Walker doesn’t like people. What she likes is silence and being left alone. The thing she loves most about recording audiobooks is that she doesn’t have to leave her Chicago apartment to do it. And she hasn’t for nearly a year. But with an unavoidable bill going to collections that puts her sister’s treatment at risk, she has no choice but to take a job that pushes her out of her comfort zone.
After a disastrous blow to her career, Arden Abbott needs a comeback. Step one: a successful book launch, including an audiobook. She doesn’t trust anyone else to oversee every aspect of the project. It has to be flawless. Arden knows she’s ready to resume the life she had before her dreams fell apart, all she has to do is prove it to everyone around her.
When Reese and Arden meet, sparks fly and then they combust. Will Reese crack under the constant pressure from Arden? Can she possibly read a sex scene with the woman who wrote it interrupting to correct her pronunciation of words she is saying 100% correctly? Or can they step outside their comfort zones long enough to meet in the middle...
Must Love Silence is an enemies-to-lovers slow burn workplace lesbian romance featuring a lovable misanthrope and a heroine in recovery? It’s funny and a little dark, and it firmly believes that everyone deserves a chance to change.
Content Warning:This book contains characters in recovery from substance addictions and references to their recovery. It also contains depictions of anxiety from the main character.
Reese & Arden are the couple for me—they have this deep compatibility and grace in their awkwardness that, as a reader, makes it feel like they simply MUST be together. Their humor (or maybe more generally Bexley’s humor) is so witty and crisp, it’s divine.
I really enjoyed this book when I first read it 6 months ago, but rereading it as an audiobook reminded me of all the incredible things that this author has wrapped into the gift that is this book. There is a lot to unpack, but it’s not overdone. It has just the right balance of raw emotion and pain with lightness and sweetness. Perfection.
