Drunk Dial

by Penelope Ward

[Cocktails and Books]

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Rana makes the drunken mistake of looking up her childhood friend on Google and then proceeding to rake the guy at the other end of the phone over the coals for every hurt he ever causes her thirteen-year-old self.  But when she gets a call from that same number the next day, Rana learns that her drunk dial might be the best mistake she ever made.

Rana and Landon had been close at kids and their adult relationship seemed to pick up exactly where they had last left off.  Their phone and text conversations helped the reconnect and develop a friendship based on a shared past.  I liked that.  It took some of Rana's self-consciousness away and allowed her to be herself with Landon.  While she may have given him snippets of herself here and there, she hid behind the phone.  And it wasn't until she absolutely needed to be there for Landon that she got past her own looks.

Rana and Landon had a ton of issues they each individually needed to deal with.  But there one bright moment was each other.  They stopped the noise the other heard and helped make sense of their day, life or whatever situation they were in.  It was refreshing.  Their relationship may seem to easy, but given what each of them was dealing with they needed something easy.

Penelope Ward always manages to give me that something different to read at the exact time I need to read it.  DRUNK DIAL came at just the right time.  Landon and Rana were hot, quirky, funny and an absolute joy to read.