Author: Kristy Boyce
Narrator: Eva Kaminsky
Title: Dungeons and Drama
Series: Dungeons and Drama #1
Genre: Romance, YA, Contemporary
Format: Audiobook
Published: January 9, 2024
Where I got It: Borrowed from library
Summary:
Challenge(s):
When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn't hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dating hijinks!
Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school’s spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom’s car without permission, she's grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad’s game shop.
Riley can't waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan—a nerdy teen employee—to cover her shifts and, in exchange, she’ll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous.
But Riley didn’t realize that meant joining Nathan's Dungeons & Dragons game…or that role playing would be so fun. Soon, Riley starts to think that flirting with Nathan doesn't require as much acting as she would've thought...
Review:
This was picked for book club, plus, I've had my eyes on this so I was excited to see it get selected. Weeee.
Here we follow Riley who is a teenage drama queen. She loves the stage and loves musicals; she dreams of becoming a stage director one day. However, all that comes crashing down when she takes her mom's car without permission to a show. As punishment, she now has to work after school hours at her dad's game shop. In order to get some of her shifts covered so she can work on the school musical (plus keep her ex from knowing she is single STILL) , she strikes a deal with Nathan. She will help make his crush jealous by flirting with him if he pretends to be her boyfriend when her ex shows up and cover a couple of shifts. He agrees, but she has to join his D&D game. Little will she know that she will fall for D&D and for Nathan.
This was simply adorable. I really enjoyed it and I couldn't stop listening to it. As a girl who loves both musicals and D&D this was such a fun combo and seeing the two worlds come together. LOVE.
The characters are fun even though Riley's selfishness drove me to insanity sometimes. At the core of it, she is a nice girl....just a typical teen who is obsessed with herself and what she wants.
Nathan was a sweet boy but again...there were times he was stuck on only what he wanted.
Teens. *rolls eyes*
Even though this was a YA, it didn't feel cringey YA like some of them can. You know what I mean. It felt real and had some depth and it was enjoyable. It was a very cute and sweet. It took a while for these two to become more which worked great for the story.
The narrator was fantastic. Perfect voices for everyone and her singing was cute.
But yes, I adored this story. 5 stars from me for sure.
- Favorite Character(s): Nathan
- Least Favorite Character(s): Paul
Challenge(s):
- Audiobook #17
- Library love #9
- Romance Reading #14 (Fake Dating trope)
7 comments:
I don't read much YA but I'm glad this was so good for you!
Anne - Books of My Heart
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I think Riley would annoy me too much. I've already raised two teens, I don't need to relive it!
Anne, every year I read less and less. But this was for sure worth it.
Jen, hahahahaha I don't blame you there
Cool situation for a YA. Nice that it isn't over the top teen drama.
Agreed. I hate YAs that are silly over-the-top. Sure there is some drama (or we wouldn't have a book) but it felt realistic.
Omg that title and cover is too cute
It really is!
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