Adorable but Annoying? My Review of Night Shift

Night Shift by Annie Crown was the most adorable romance I have read in a while. I believe I found this book on either TikTok or Instagram before it came out. Since then, it has been sitting on my reading list, waiting to be read. Driving an hour and a half to my boyfriend's house is always the perfect time to read a romance, and this one hit the spot.

Kendall Holiday spends her Friday nights exactly where she wants to be. With her head buried in a spicy romance novel while she works the night shift at her university's library. She knows she could join her friends for a weekend of drinks and college parties, but she likes her alone time, so she tells herself she isn't hiding when she gets lost in the pages of fictional love stories.

But that all changes when Vincent Knight, captain of the basketball team, turns up with an injured wrist, a sour mood, and a pressing need for poetry recommendations for a class he hates. Vincent is tall, smart-mouthed and challenges Kendall like no one has before. Suddenly, she's falling headfirst into her very own romance novel, but it takes a lot more truth than tropes to get to a happy ever after in real life.

As a reader who focuses on tropes and happily ever after, it was fun to read a book where the main character was the same way. Kendall was always looking at her relationship with Vincent through tropes or scenes from books she had previously read.  It was nice to be able to have a character that I could relate to in this non-typical way.

This book was a short read, which I enjoyed because it meant that the scenes did not drag on too much and neither did the relationship between Vincent and Kendall. I will mention that I did not enjoy how much conflict and miscommunication there was between these two characters. It became repetitive and made me feel annoyed with the author.

Stars: 4

Spice: 3