Shut Up and Drive: A Closed-Door, Road Trip Rom Com by Noelle DavenportMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
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📚 Shut Up and Drive (Wayfinder Series)
🖋 Noelle Davenport
📖 Format: eBook
💫 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Operation Bisquick, the reboot: Thane and Sera
🚘 Second Chance
🥞 Frenemies to Lovers
🚘 Forced Proximity
🥞 Brother’s Best Friend
Thane and Sera absolutely stole my heart❣️
Shut Up and Drive is a sweet, humorous, and sometimes disastrous second-chance romance, frenemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, brother’s best friend, ten days at a family lake house—and a whole lot of heavy baggage that neither Thane nor Sera has managed to leave in the past.
After getting out of a controlling relationship with her cheating ex-boyfriend Bradley, Serafine is headed to her family’s South Carolina lake house on Amethyst Lake. This trip is supposed to be about self-care, healing, and reclaiming a little piece of herself.
💖 Sera ~ This “me-time” is like an Independence Day celebration for my soul.
Unfortunately, Sera just found out that Thane will be there too.
From the very beginning, I loved Sera’s internal dialogue and descriptions. Sera desperately wants to convince herself that she can simply ignore Thane for ten days. But underneath all that irritation is something much more complicated. She doesn't really hate him. She needs to hate Thane because the alternative is admitting she might still love him.
💖 Sera ~ It’s the only thing that keeps me from loving you again.
And that history is where this story really got me...
As Thane and Sera start wandering down memory lane on their impromptu road trip, we get glimpses of the two people they used to be—the Oreos and milk🥛 , Waffle House, Rules of the Road, Operation Bisquick 🥞 and even Operation Burrito Backfire 🚽. I loved that their memories weren't all picture-perfect moments. They were funny, awkward, sweet and sometimes painful. They felt like real memories between two people who had once known each other for most of their lives.
Then there is the accident...
When Thane admits that the night of the accident happened differently than he told the police, my imagination immediately went somewhere much darker. Early on, I was convinced someone had died or been horribly injured! That mystery added another layer to everything I was learning about their past.
But what really made this a five-star read for me was the fantastic blend of humor and emotion.
This story understands that life and love rarely happen in perfect little moments. Sometimes they're ridiculous. Sometimes they're painful. Sometimes the memories that mean the most involve pancakes, road trips, Oreos, old jokes and front porch dreams.
By the time Thane and Sera gasp onto their happily ever after 💍, Thane had the perfect romantic gesture. But what they got was so much better because it felt authentically them—sweet, funny, emotional and perfectly imperfect.
Thane and Sera weren't getting a chance to erase their past and start over. 🗺️ They were getting the chance to take all those messy, funny, painful, wonderful memories with them and finally figure out where their road will lead them next 🏡.
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