Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling

By: Elise Bryant

Narrated by: Preston Butler III, Shayna Small

Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

From the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Happily Ever Afters comes a dual POV rom-com about Reggie and Delilah, who fall in love through missed connections and chance meetings on holidays over the course of a year. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han, with crossover appeal for fans of Jasmine Guillory and Talia Hibbert romances.

Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She goes with the flow—which is how she ends up singing in her friends’ punk band as a favor, even though she’d prefer to hide at the merch table.

Reggie is a D&D Dungeon Master and self-declared Blerd. He spends his free time leading quests and writing essays critiquing the game under a pseudonym, keeping it all under wraps from his disapproving family.

These two, who have practically nothing in common, meet for the first time on New Year’s Eve. And then again on Valentine’s Day. And then again on St. Patrick’s Day. It’s almost like the universe is pushing them together for a reason.

Delilah wishes she were more like Reggie—open about what she likes and who she is, even if it’s not cool. Except . . . it’s all a front. Reggie is just role-playing someone confident. The kind of guy who could be with a girl like Delilah.

As their holiday meetings continue, the two begin to fall for each other. But what happens once they realize they’ve each fallen for a version of the other that doesn’t really exist?

©2023 Elise Bryant (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers

Such a cute story!

I loved everything about this book, their love story was super cute. I really do think we can use a part two to this. Would love to hear more about Delilah and Reggie.

The Angst of Young Love

This is a brilliant portrayal of young love and all the angst that accompanies it. The author perfectly captures the relationships not only between Reggie and Delilah, but also the relationships they share with their siblings, parents and friends. I love the realness and completeness of this story. And the narrators are magnificent, thy truly bring the story to life!

Love her books!

I loved this book and all of her others!! I can’t wait to see what she writes next!!😊

Loved it!

I am 64 years old. I am Caucasian I almost exclusively read, non-fiction. But after reading a series of very heavy, deep, historical/sociological books, I was looking for something different. this book somehow came up as “recommended” in the Audible app. I had never read a romance novel in my life, not to mention one that was aimed at young readers, and in African American audience.

But I found this book delightful! Wonderfully crafted characters, a great storyline — very creative. The author’s style seemed just right. I don’t know what I was expecting (I guess the stereotype of the “romance” genre filled with cringe, worthy adjectives), but the writing style seemed so right. The descriptions felt authentic. Free and easy. Nothing felt forced. Spoiler alert! While the ultimate “happy ending” was what was expected, the journey to get there went in many unexpected directions that came together quite nicely at the end. Yet, the author kept things quite real; everything seemed quite normal for what you would expect the kids in high school might experience today. Because I have grown children who were performing musicians, and into D&D, the story was even more relatable for me. Finally, the audio performance really put it over the top for me. The narrators made the characters truly come to life. It makes me wish they would make a movie out of it.

Thank you! This was truly a delightful diversion! I will be coming back for more.

Grade A book

I liked this book. I enjoy romance books as long as they are good. :). This one was good. I enjoyed the nerdy guy getting the win instead of the cliche bad boy getting the good girl. Thanks for that!
With all the good there are some issues in this book and I will go over them now.
I’m an African American male and I thank God for that. What bothers me about these books are how they are influenced a lot by media to me. Black people keep ourselves in a box based on what we believe being black is. Why do we do that to ourselves?! Then we have other races believing we are in this same box. A person should be who they are regardless of race. Yes we all see color and we should see it, yet we make it seem like it’s a bad thing because most of the time we complain about the bad. If someone of color does something out of the norm from what our culture tells us is not us we get it from both our own culture and the other side. We wonder why we have kids who can’t find themselves. The world is to busy trying to tell them who they are already. That’s not just with the black community. Sorry for the rant. I guess I’m trying to say be who you are meant to be. As long as you are not hurting yourself or others be the positive influence for change and unity. Don’t stay inside the box. Get out and enjoy anything you can. Enjoy other cultures and let others enjoy ours. Thanks