Passion Project

Author: London Sperry Title: Passion Project Publisher: Penguin Books Date Published: 04/08/2025

Read Dates: 03/06/2025- 03/08/2025
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

Passion Project is a single POV friends-to-lovers romance. Bennet is still mourning her boyfriend who passed away when her friend and roommate signs her up for a dating site. Her first date with Henry is a disaster, but against all odds Henry convinces Bennet that they should be friends. The two embark on a summer of adventures in NY, hoping to help Bennet find psssion and direction in her life.

This was an excellent and emotional read that dealt really well with topics of grief, depression and anxiety. Henry’s optimism was charming and likeable, and Bennet’s emotional state felt very relatable. Well worth the read!

If your twenties are supposed to be the best years of your life, Bennet Taylor is failing miserably . . . with a big emphasis on the miserable. Where’s that zest she keeps hearing about? She’s a temp worker in New York City with no direction, no future, and no social life. And at the painful center of this listlessness is grief over the death of her first love.

When Bennet runs into Henry Adams just hours after standing him up for a first date, she makes an alcohol-fueled confession: She’s not ready to date. In fact, it’s been years since she felt passion for something. Not even pottery, or organized sports—not anything. Rather than leaving her to ruminate, Henry jumps at the opportunity for adventure: Bennet needs to find a passion for life, and Henry will help her find it. Every Saturday, they’ll try something new in New York City. As friends, of course.

As their “passion project” continues, the pair tackle everything from carpentry to tattooing to rappelling off skyscrapers, and Bennet feels her guarded exterior ebbing away. But as secrets surface, Bennet has to decide what she wants, and if she’s truly ready to move on. With emotional resonance and sparkling banter, Passion Project is a fun, flirty, thoughtful story of finding a spark—and igniting happiness.