Monday, July 31, 2023

Review: Authentically Izzy

Authentically Izzy Authentically Izzy by Pepper D. Basham
My rating: 💛💛💛💛

This was such a fun story. I listened to the audiobook, and I adored Brodie’s accent.

The banter between the family members was also fun to view and the way the story was mostly told via emails and texts made it unique and interesting.

But apart from the fun and lighter moments, there was also depth in Izzy's journey to determine what her future really means, not just what others wanted.

I would recommend the audiobook for everyone who enjoys entertaining narrators and doesn’t mind laughing out loud a few times. Plus, if you are like me and can’t read with the Skymar accent, the audiobook delivers the accents very well.

*I listened to the audiobook on Scribd.*


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About the book:


“Dear Izzy—I feel certain there’s a book-loving man living relatively nearby waiting to speak bookish to you ’til death do you part. You just haven’t met yet.”

Izzy Edgewood is a wannabe bookstore owner, quote queen, and Lord of the Rings nerd who has been waiting for Prince Charming to sweep her off her sneakered feet. But it’s hard to meet people when you spend more time with fictional humans than real ones. Which is why her pragmatist cousin Josephine decides to take Izzy’s future into her own meddling hands and create an online dating profile for the hopeful romantic.

To Izzy’s shock (and suspicion), Josie’s plan works. Soon, she’s dialoguing with a Hobbit-loving man named Brodie who lives in a small town an ocean away from her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But is their shared love of books, family, and correspondence enough to overcome Izzy’s fear of flying and the literal distance between them? And is a long-distance relationship even worth considering when a local author has been frequenting the library where she works and is proving to be a perfectly fine gentleman?

In this epistolary novel from award-winning author Pepper Basham, bookish dreams and happily-ever-afters collide to create a beautiful sort of magic that’s even better than fiction.

About the author:


Pepper D Basham has been telling tales ever since she was a little girl. When her grandmother called her a “writer” at the age of ten, Pepper took it as gospel and has enjoyed various types of writing styles ever since. A native of the Blue Ridge Mountains, mom of five, speech-language pathologist, and lover of chocolate, Pepper enjoys sprinkling her native Appalachian culture into her fiction wherever she can. She currently resides in the lovely mountains of Asheville, NC, where she works with kids who have special needs, searches for unique hats, and plots new ways to annoy her wonderful friends at her writing blog, The Writer’s Alley.

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