Love at First Psych by Cara Bastone

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

True love is put to the test in this romantic comedy brought to hilarious life by Santino Fontana (Frozen, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Stephanie Einstein, and a full cast!

This Psych 312 assignment just might send me off the deep end. Determining whether love at first sight really exists with Robbie Moravian as my project partner of all people?

He’s the sappiest man alive, so upbeat I could scream, and clearly rooting for happy endings at every turn. How does he not learn from experience considering our own meet-cute last semester almost got us expelled?

But we both need to pass this course to graduate. So we’re interviewing five random couples about their meet-cutes and relationships and spending all this time together. Which is certainly…educational.

Because it turns out Robbie isn’t just the charming golden boy I thought I knew. There’s some actual depth beneath all those lame dad jokes and the ‘70s-inspired thrift wardrobe (even if he does look ridiculously great in a flared collar). Next thing I know he’s walking me back to my office on the regular and finishing all my sentences and protecting me from freak storms, and…

Wait. Could Robbie be right? Can happy endings really come from unhappy beginnings? Is he about to change my entire world view?

Group projects are the worst.

Love at First Psych

Light-hearted rom-com with a full cast of narrators!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: ❤️💙💜💚
Steam: N/A
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎🌍
Character development: 😠☺️😋🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Full Cast Duet Narration

The heroine: Marigold – she is getting a psychology degree and was assigned a two-person project on love at first sight. She is not too happy with her partner, Robbie who is a bit too laid back for her, as she is focused and ready to get to work. Though she is also not too fond of the topic and doesn’t believe in love at first sight. She isn’t a romantic at heart.

The Hero: Robbie – he has a cherry disposition, is charismatic and engaging and has an optimistic view on love and life. He is carefree and easy going and completely opposite of Marigold. He is also a bit of a flirt and has some depth to him that isn’t apparent at first glance. A person has to get to know him better to see inside.

The Story: Marigold and Robbie have to work together to do their project and both of them need to pass the class in order to graduate. This means they have to spend quite a bit of time together while they interview five different couples and put together their report. At first Marigold doesn’t really like Robbie, but after time together she starts to realize that she was making assumptions about him and that he is not what she originally thought.

The book was a cute one, funny and the characters were likable, especially Robbie. He was a bit of a cornball, but I liked that he was intelligent and had a sense of humor about so many things. Also I liked the interviews with the different couples, it added a lot of dimension to the storyline and I liked the view it gave into different love stories and relationships. The relationship between Robbie and Marigold was very yin-yang but ended up being really adorable. I loved the way everything came together.

This story, like the previous audiobooks I have listened to from Cara Bastone is done in multiple points of view by a full cast in duet narration, including background sounds. I like these because they are done well and you get the full listening experience. Like the other books of hers that I have listened to, this one starts out in a café or restaurant and you get all the background sounds of a busy café which is fun.

The books in the Love Lines series had the main two narrators who were some that I had listened to before and was familiar with. In this book, the two main narrators were Santino Fontana and Stephanie Einstein. I hadn’t heard either of these narrators before, but they both have good voices that truly fit the characters and did a great job.

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