Simon has accepted his anxiety as part of him and anyone who is going to be in his life needs to accept it to and not try to change him. There’s excellent mental health rep in this book. He’s so brave, and he knows it, but he still struggles so much. Basically, I want to be his grandmother, which is totally unnecessary as he has an excellent grandmother, but he inspires grandmotherly feelings in me. I want to wrap him up in a blanket and give him butterscotch candies, and blow his nose on a used kleenex that I keep in my purse. Jack is wonderful, somewhat bitter at first, patient, smitten, and passionate. It’s just what I say I want in a book: Nice people falling in love and having sexy times in regular life. There’s a relationship and no drama and a satisfying as hell HEA. Simon can’t talk to Jack at first, but eventually he can text and he starts talking more throughout the book. Simon lives with his grandmother, who’s allergic to animals, and he agrees to walk Jack’s “pack” (several dogs and a cat named Pirate) twice a day. (This sounds like an amazing app and I need it to exist because I need puppy snuggles but there are too many loose legos in my house these days to get a dog.) They are connected through the PetShare app, which connects people who have pets with people who do not have pets but want to be around them. Jack’s an animal lover with a broken leg, and Simon is a guy with severe anxiety, especially social anxiety, who also loves animals. Roan Parrish is an auto-buy author for me, so I was really excited to read this book. I received an e-ARC of Better Than People by Roan Parrish from Netgalley and the publisher.
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