seriously romantic: matzah ball surprise by laura brown

matzah ball surprise is a cute fake relationship story, with relatable characters and very relatable family dynamics. gaby and levi are sweet together, she needs a date to bring to her family's seder, and he has an ex-fiancée who has him avoiding his family's seder.

he's also deaf. there's a lot in the story about how communication is a struggle, and some of it is related to the fact that the characters don't speak the same language, but there's also some not talking to the other person for #reasons going on too.

on the whole this is a solid debut, but there are sections in the arc that could have used some improved editing. there's a dinner scene where a secondary character appears and disappears out of the scene, i literally read back a whole chapter to see if i could figure out who "charlie" was, then kept reading because i couldn't find it and figured it was a missed edit, only to have "charlie" reappear later and after thinking about it, put together that it was gaby's cousin who maybe had sex in a bathroom.

there were a couple of other moments like that in the text. and i think there could have been some additional work done in shoring up the characters motivations.

**matzah ball surprise will publish on march 16, 2020. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (lovestruck) in exchange for my honest review.