Giving it a 4 because I really enjoyed it. Vincent and Kendall were a cute couple, the only thing I didn’t love was one of the tropes. Im not a fan of miscommunication & at times it was very insta lovey.

Night Shift was definitely...an experience. It's a book that has some structural problems, but it's such a delightfully quick story to read that I read it in one day. I would have liked to have seen the characters communicating better, as it felt like they had 5 dialogues outside of sex. Some things could be better overall, but it was a super positive romance, without any problems. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an arc in exchange for an honest review!

Night Shift was such a cute college romance and a very quick read. I was actually pleasantly surprised considering that it originally was a Wattpad story but I’d definitely be interested in reading other books by this author in the future.

I really liked this! It was really fun, a super easy romance to binge. I loved the banter and humour between the characters. Sometimes the inner monologue was slightly cringe but this can be quite common in romance…

This book started out so great! But towards the middle it got a little repetitive and boring to me. I sadly was not able to finish.

A college romance between a hockey captain and a librarian romance reader. This is the opposite of a slow burn. Our main characters share an immediate connection and it doesn't take a lot of time together for them to fall head over heels in love.
It is a cute story with a lot of steam.

Night Shift
Annie Crown

⭐3.5⭐

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review of this book.

This was a cute college romance! Kendall, a bookworm, and Vincent, a basketball star, meet while Kendall is working the night shift at their college’s 24 hour library. After a sudden but passionate kiss in the library stacks 15 minutes after meeting one another, Kendall doesn’t know what to think. We follow both Kendall and Vincent as they navigate whether what is between them has a chance or if it was just a moment of passion over poetry.

I enjoyed this book but it was a little far-fetched for me (I know that it's a romance book, so being far-fetched is often a given). I also didn’t like that it was made a point that characters in the book hated a miscommunication trope in a book, but this book was a BIG miscommunication trope. I agree with characters in the book; I also hate the miscommunication trope.

⭐️rating: 4/5

I enjoyed this and it definitely exceeded my expectations! It’s a very cute, light, and fun college rom-com with lots of spice. Like…lots of spice🥵. I read it in one sitting, it goes very quickly, and it was written very well which I loved.

The characters were also fun and enjoyable. You have a virgin romance book lover and a hot basketball player who’s almost too perfect, and they mesh in all the right ways. They’re real, flawed characters who definitely have their fumbles, but still get their happy ending (in more ways than one). And the FMC is a fellow tall woman, which was fun! The side characters were also great additions, and I hope we get to see more of them!

Overall, it’s a quick and fun, spicy read that’s very enjoyable! I’m glad I read this, I like the writing, and I would read more by Annie Crown.

Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Kendall Holiday spends her Friday nights exactly how she wants to: her head buried in a spicy romance novel while working her graveyard shift at the university library. She knows she could join her friends for nights out at college parties, but she likes her quiet 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, 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, and suddenly she's falling headfirst into her very own romance novel.

Sometimes a goofy, ridiculously meta spicy romance book about people who read spicy romance books is exactly what you need and I was SO here for this. I really liked both Kendall and Vincent and think they balanced each other out, Kendall being a reclusive bookworm and Vincent being a popular athlete. Aside from knowing this about each of them, however, you don't get to know much more about either of them - their families, lives outside of their run-ins, etc. But honestly, the wonderfully Wattpad-esque spice made up for it for me! The book kept my attention the whole time (even through all the miscommunication), it was a good mix of sweet and spicy, and had wonderful banter between both the two MCs and Kendall and her friends.

Simply a plain ol' good time that requires literally zero brain power to get sucked into and enjoy reading! Very much looking forward to reading anything the author comes out with in the future!

Thank you to NetGalley and Wattpad Books for an arc in exchange for an honest review!

This debut novel was AMAZING! I could not put this down. I was obsessed with Vincent! He was so gentle, kind, but direct st the same time. I love a good sports romance

This was a super quick new adult romance that kept me glued to my Kindle WAY past my bedtime to finish it. I loved the witty banter between Kendall and her roommates/friends but also the chemistry and banter between Kendall and Vincent. I think there could have been a little more character development, but honestly it didn't take away from my enjoyment of the story or the main characters themselves.

One thing I will say is that I was a little annoyed at how fast Kendall jumped to conclusions and sabotaged herself many times in this book, but I think it's also understandable when you're a shy introverted person who doesn't have a lot of life experiences yet, so in the end it wasn't a huge issue for me.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC for my honest review. 4/5 steamy stars for this little Wattpad gem.

When a chance encounter between a bookworm and a basketball player turns steamy in the stacks after hours... neither of them expects the events that are to come. Kendall Holiday spends her Friday knights working in her college library, usually with a romance book on hand and some peace and quiet, just how she likes it. Except this Friday night is interrupted by Vincent Knight, the school's star basketball player who asks for her help in finding a poetry book for a paper he has to get done. What starts off as a search for a book ends up with a make-out session in the stacks... yet thing's only spiral from there as these two opposites find themselves fumbling as they try and make a relationship work. Romance is never as easy as it is in the books but maybe they'll have a fighting chance. This was a cute and fun romance read about two college students and I enjoyed how cheesy and fun it was.

*Thanks Netgalley and Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group, W by Wattpad Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

I really enjoyed this book. It was funny and bright. It was a quick easy romance read. I loved the humor and banter between the characters. I loved Kendall’s friends and how funny they were. I loved Kendall and Vincent’s easy candor and was legitimately laughing along with them. I liked the settings and the way the story developed over time.

Thank-you NetGalley for the ARC.
I was a little disappointed in this book. I am a librarian and she works in a library and then romance! It sounds perfect, but it was not. Everything in this book fell flat. Even when she having a serious talk with her roommates about stereotypes it felt flat and weird. It felt like it was stuck in there with out much development. I felt the same about the romance and the storyline in general. I thought there would be more about school or the basketball team. There wasn't. This book needed waaaay more layers,

I am finishing up NIGHT SHIFT by Annie Crown. This was my first Wattpad read and I was intrigued by bookish girl meets college athlete (have been loving some sports romance lately!)

🔹NIGHT SHIFT HAS:
*characters who call themselves out on miscommunication
*insta-love (or at least insta-infatuation)
*sexual awakening for both MCs
*drawn out sex scenes

This one was so fun! It was fast paced and a spicy read. There was so much banter in this one and it was great. My one complaint was there was just so much miscommunication at points. It felt a little unnecessary conflict being created.

I didn't expect this book to be as good as it was??? I love sports romances but sometimes, they can get tired. That was not the case at all. This story was fun and had open door romance which I loved.

Night Shift bt Annie Crown📗🏀

Happy Pub Day @anniecrownwrites

genre: romance
format: epub arc
pages: 313
times read: 1
date (dd/mm/yy): 13/11/23
would reread: maybe
rating: 3,6⭐

review:
this book is sweet and fast paced and makes you devour it in one sitting

the writing was good-ish, it felt really Wattpad-y (it's a Wattpad book) but still enjoyable imo

the characters didn't feel bland but it did feel like there was no plot and just romance, if we focus on that it's an enjoyable read

the mmc, Vincent Knight, is a basketball player who has poetry class and the fmc, Kendall Holiday, works the night shift at the university's library and loved poetry so Vince asks her to tutor him. yadayadayada they develop feelings, and this part was the funniest because for a change it wasn't the guy that fucked up buy the girl.

if this becomes a series and we get another book I feel like it's going to be about Jabari and Harper

thank you @netgalley and @wattpadbooks for sending me an arc

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC!

I unexpectedly loved this?!? For starters, I am obsessed with how the author writes. She is so funny, but in a way that makes the story even better. If I was an author, I would hope my personality and humor came through like this. I loved it! also, although this was a shorter story, I thought it was perfectly done. The incorporation of a bookish girl trying to avoid her least favorite tropes was so great, it made me relate to Kendall so much. Because this was a little shorter, we don’t get a Ton of depth to the main characters, but I really didn’t mind. Also the SMUT was SO GOOD?! I’m pleasantly impressed and surprised by this book. Definitley recommend!

Reviewed on Goodreads: Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

Night Shift was some of the most fun I’ve had reading in a while. I was giddy to pick up the book and just wanted to read every chance I got.

I thought the pacing was really good and it was super easy to connect to the characters.

Kendall was super relatable and Vincent was so sweet. It was so cute how meta it was in the fact that Kendall hates the miscommunication trope but her and Vincent had a couple. I really liked how they tried their best to start communicating with each other and by the end of the book they were communicating better than they ever had.

Kendall had a really good dynamic with her roommates and the whole friend group was easily likeable. I wish there were more books coming with other side characters stories but I will gladly reread this to get my fix!!