Call It What You Want

De: Alissa DeRogatis

Narrado por: Ada Sinclair, Michael Gallagher

A situationship, a heartbreak, a mistake—you can call it what you want. But was it love?

It's 2016, and Sloane Hart's senior year of college is bound to be the best one yet. Her nights consist of drinking cheap vodka and singing along to The Chainsmokers with her friends, and her days are spent writing as she prepares for the post-grad life in New York City she's always dreamed of.

The last thing she needs is for a guy to get in the way of her goals. With graduation so close, she just needs to focus on landing a job and enjoying this last year with her best friends all under one roof. But that plan becomes a little more complicated when her upstairs neighbor, Ethan Brady, enters the picture.

Ethan's pull is undeniable. He's tall, mysterious, and handsome as hell, and when Sloane is with him, the entire world slows to a halt. But Ethan's guarded past is too hurtful for him to face, and if letting Sloane in means that the walls he's built around his heart would come crumbling down, he may not be willing to let that happen.

As their chemistry and connection intensify, Sloane finds herself falling deeper and deeper, but will Ethan ever be ready to catch her?

Nostalgic, heartfelt, and profoundly cathartic, Call It What You Want is an ode to almost-love stories—the kinds with no labels, no promises, and the potential to turn your entire world upside down.

©2024 Alissa DeRogatis (P)2024 Podium Audio

The realization and pain that the words bring back

This is perfect for someone many years past a toxic relationship like Ethan and Sloan it hurts but it is amazing listening to the beginning of the story and picking apart the red flags that I had once fallen for.

such a relatable story

I loved this book!! I'm sad it got so many low stars on goodreads. I thought the story was very relatable to what a women goes through when they're involved in a toxic relationship. I could not stop reading and very much enjoyed the book.

Great story!

I loved/hated that it was not a happy ending but as a mom of a young girl I watched this several times with my daughter before she saw the light!

The truth of waiting.

I loved how it’s finally seen that it’s not that it’s so easy to leave but it’s not that you can’t leave. It’s what’s holding you from leaving and the choice of why you don’t want to leave. I loved how the perspective of how hurt a person can get from another person even though you’ve never been with them to begin with. this is my current situation in a book right now , and i’m still waiting for him.

The realness of being stuck in the situation

Liked. I think it needed more depth of why she was so hung up especially it being so many bad moments. At the end she said she was holding onto the good moments but as the listener there was maybe 2 to 3 and hours of bad.

It’s honest.

It shows how toxic a situationship can get. But there’s no growth. Sloan was desperate for a guy who told her and showed her multiple times that he doesn’t want her. It’s sad. But real. I was hoping for more.

book vs audiobook

the audio book is great but the story differs slightly from the book but i really enjoyed listening to it whilst reading the book

Nothing really happened in this book.

It was the same thing throughout the entire book. A girl who wanted a relationship with a boy who didn’t.

No plot

The characters are insufferable and have no growth throughout the story. There is no real plot. I found myself constantly rolling my eyes when listening. I gave up on it about 2/3rds of the way through.

Was a good will the won't they that served a purpose.

Loved the message that sometimes people are meant to be in your life forever but a season and often teach us a lesson. It was a good book! Personally it felt a little redundant and repetitive at times and the story felt prolonged and could have ended sooner.