A Cosmic Kind of Love (24 in 2024 #9)

Author: Samantha Young
Title: A Cosmic Kind of Love
Publisher: Berkley
Date Published: 10/18/2022

Read Dates: 05/02/2024- 05/03/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

A Cosmic Kind of Love is a dual POV friends-to-lovers romance. Hallie is an event planner who accidentally receives some videos of Chris when a client forwards her wedding inspiration ideas. After watching them, she sends a video apology that is bounced as undelivered and then sends a few more videos just to talk into the void. Unbeknownst to Hallie, Chris, an astronaut recently returned from the International Space Station is receiving the videos and quickly becoming smitten. The two form an unlikely friendship that builds to more, but they each have their own baggage here on Earth to work through.

I very much enjoyed this story but, at times, it felt like reading two different books. The first half, while Chris and Hallie are learning about each other and becoming friends reads kind of like a rom-com, some references to drama but it’s secondary. In the second half, the drama kind of takes over. All told though, it was definitely worth the read and very well done.

When event planner Hallie Goodman receives party-inspiration material from the bride of her latest wedding project, the last thing she expects to find in the files are digital videos from Darcy’s ex-boyfriend. Hallie knows it’s wrong to keep watching these personal videos, but this guy is cute, funny, and an astronaut on the International Space Station to boot. She’s only human. And it’s not long until she starts sending e-mails and video diaries to his discontinued NASA address. Since they’re bouncing back, there’s no way anyone will ever be able to see them... right?

Christopher Ortiz is readjusting to life on earth and being constantly in the shadow of his deceased older brother. When a friend from NASA’s IT department forwards him the e-mails and video messages Hallie has sent, he can’t help but notice how much her sense of humor and pink hair make his heart race.

Separated by screens, Hallie and Chris are falling in love with each other, one transmission at a time. But can they make their star-crossed romance work when they each learn the other’s baggage?