Love, Creekwood

A Simonverse Novella

By: Becky Albertalli

Narrated by: Michael Crouch, James Fouhey, Kate Rudd, Bahni Turpin

New York Times bestseller! Fall in love all over again with the characters from the bestselling Simonverse novels in this highly anticipated epilogue novella. Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli, the movie Love, Simon, and the new Hulu series spin-off, Love, Victor!

It’s been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah’s unforgettable night at senior prom.

Now the Creekwood High crew are first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began—on email.

Praise for the Simonverse novels: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Upside of Unrequited, and Leah on the Offbeat:

“Worthy of Fault in Our Stars–level obsession.”—Entertainment Weekly, on Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Heart-fluttering, honest, and hilarious. I can’t stop hugging this book.”—Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss, on The Upside of Unrequited

“Albertalli has a fantastic ear for voice, and it’s beautifully on dis­play in Leah’s funny, wry, and vulnerable first-person narrative.”—ALA Booklist (starred review), on Leah on the Offbeat

Amazing writing and storytelling

I love it plus the idea of having the characters just write in emails to each other plus having the romance between everyone.

All emails

The narrators are amazing, but the entire book is them reading emails. There are parts where they spend more time reading the details of the email (from, to, date, subject, etc) than reading the actual message in the email. The characters seem to spend a decent amount of time together (one long distance relationship and one where they live together) but there are no “in person” interactions. It would have been nice if the emails were split up with some actual character interaction from time to time.

Overall, a good quick listen for Simon fans.

Cute, but...

Fan of the author, the series, etc. Had high hopes for this book, and while it was ultimately nice, I don't think it translated terribly well to audiobook. Why? Because while I could live with the fact that it was less than 3 hours long (it's a novella after all), I seriously think half that time was spent reading aloud the same email addresses over and over...and over...and over...and over. I was gobsmacked at just how much time was dedicated to reading those email addresses it was like some sort of parody.

Couldn’t Be Happier… 😊😊😊‼️

As much as I enjoyed going back to “Creekwood” and the “Simonverse” in print form, this audiobook further immersed me in spades, filling my heart, taking me home & reminding me that it’s all going to be okay… 💞💞💞‼️

No narrative

So this is just a whole bunch of email conversations and there’s no narrative so it makes the story a bit hard to follow and doesn’t keep context of the characters.

But still cute. Could of been better written though.

Painful to Listen to

I want to start this review off with saying, I love all of these narrators so much, and I love the Simonverse, but the tedious reading of the from, to, date, subject part of the email was so boring!! I would hear the narrators rattle it off, and I would think ugh again? It got especially unbearable during the group email setting where the narrators would spend 30 seconds saying from, to, date, subject and then have a one word answer to the email, then back again with the reply starting with the boring details again. It was really frustrating and impossible to follow the conversations. This book gave no new character growth for the main characters, I really wish we could have gotten a longer time jump then just 1 school year. If you want to read this book, maybe opt for the text version, it would be realistically a 20 minute read without the rattling off of details of what their email addresses are.

Couldn’t Get Into It

Admittedly I read the original books years ago and couldn’t remember that as well as needed for this book although I really enjoyed them. This format of this was hard to enjoy. I couldn’t finish it, but I admit others might enjoy it. If you attempt it, make sure you know the back story. I recommend reading them in order and one after the other.