![]() ![]() ![]() He’s totally a cinnamon roll, though not in a saccharine sweet sort of way. Zafir Ansari, briefly: He’s got his issues, namely lifelong anxiety and, more recently, grief and depression after the unexpected deaths of his father and brother, but he is so emotionally woke I can’t imagine how anyone wouldn’t fall in love with him. And real kissing leads to catching feelings. And as we all know, fake relationships lead to real kissing. ![]() But when an evacuation drill results in a viral video of Zaf superhero carrying Dani out of the academic building where they both work, leading the world to believe they’re Relationship Goals, they agree to use the free publicity to promote Zaf’s non-profit. It goes a little something like this: Zaf has had a crush on Dani for a long time, and they’ve been friends for all that time, too. ![]() Basically what I’m saying is that we are not dealing with a full blown “psst, falling in love ≠ therapy, and you need therapy, honey” situation. I’d say that they’re emotionally mature, but in this case Dani Brown is not especially emotionally mature, although she’d certainly like everyone to think so. Now that I’ve read 2/2 books in The Brown Sisters series, I feel comfortable saying that Talia Hibbert is very good at crafting a narrative that is emotionally gripping but also not filled with red-flagged emotional mess protagonists. Plot: Friends → Fake Relationship → Boning → Meltdown Character Chemistry: Zaf is a book boyfriend. ![]()
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