Just a Touch Away

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Just a Touch Away

By: Jae

Narrated by: Abby Craden

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An enemies-to-lovers lesbian romance with an ice queen whose frosty facade is melted by the power of touch.

Hannah Martin has an unusual job: she's a professional cuddler. While she has a big heart for her clients, she hasn't found someone special to snuggle up to in her personal life.

Winter Sullivan isn't looking for love. She's an aloof workaholic who's built walls of ice around herself. She would rather drive toothpicks under her fingernails than cuddle, and she certainly doesn't want to share her space with anyone.

When Winter's estranged father dies, he leaves her one last surprise: she and Hannah, a perfect stranger, will inherit a building together. But there's a catch: first, they have to live together for ninety-two days.

Winter is determined to dislike her rival, but soon finds Hannah isn't what she expected at all. Thanks to a hilarious doormat war, a cuddle dare from Winter's half sister, and a kiss in the most unusual of places, the frosty fortress around her heart begins to melt.

Will she be able to accept that love might be just a touch away?

Contains mature themes.

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I absolutely loved this audiobook, it was brilliant. It made my ice queen, age gap, forced proximity, slow burn loving heart soar. This is the 2nd book from Jae I’ve encountered and just like the first time, she knocked my socks off with her fantastic characterisation, comedic timing, interesting storyline, and descriptive imagery.

The story centres around Winter and Hannah, two people who are as opposite as chalk and cheese. Despite that, they almost seem made for each other. All characters felt well rounded and 3 dimensional, but the leading ladies were in a different stratosphere. To me, the best romantic stories occur when both leading ladies not only complement each other, but also have distinctive personalities. Hannah and Winter are an exceptional example of that. They both felt like a “whole person” separately, but in falling in love with each other, they experienced new and wonderous things life could offer them. Plus, their chemistry was next level. Both were engaging, interesting, realistic, and overall, well rounded.

I love ice queens and workaholic Winter is no exception. Although, I would actually argue that she isn’t a “proper” ice queen. Yes, she’s rude and cold and like most ice queens slowly starts to show her tender side, but she’s also hilarious and secretly awkward. Her humour made me laugh out loud multiple times and her awkward cluelessness legit gave me life. Granted, most ice queens are a bit clueless on how to show love and affection, but Winter genuinely had no idea what to do because she’d never experienced that kind of affection. Which made watching her fall in love and, for want of a better word, melt, with the help of Hannah so exciting to behold. Speaking of Hannah, she was one of the most fascinating characters I’ve encountered. She is so unlike your average “melter” and quite frankly it’s a good job she’s fictional, as she would be too precious for this world. As a professional cuddler, which was an of itself is fascinating to learn about, she’s naturally kind, caring and tactile, but more importantly she isn’t a pushover. She knows herself and stands up for herself, those she loves, and her beliefs. If one were to look at Winter and Hannah’s personalities as bullet point facts, it would be easy to believe that Winter would crush Hannah within minutes, but Hannah was more than a match for Winter’s “frosty fire”. I loved how open she was and unashamed of who she was, but the cherry on top of those ‘emergency sprinkles’ is I loved how Jae described her aesthetically. Plus size or realistic looking protagonists are still few and far between in sapphic novels, at least the ones I’ve read so far, so to have Hannah described as someone who looked “normal” was amazing! There was a part of Hannah that immediately gripped me and that was that she had aphantasia, which I had never heard of before this book.

The simplest way to describe aphantasia is someone who doesn’t have a “mind’s eye”. Like everything, it’s on a spectrum and learning the basic facts in this book was extremely interesting. As a very visual person, I found learning about this condition after finishing the book utterly fascinating. Something that completely blew my mind, was learning that Jae, like Hannah, has aphantasia. Everyone who knows me, knows I adore descriptive imagery. So, learning that Jae doesn’t see the images she describes legit melted my brain. Her descriptive imagery is sublime, I could see and feel everything she described so clearly, I actually felt like I was there.

I don’t know what to say about the narration other than Abby Craden once again knocked her portrayal of this wonderful story out of the park. I highly recommend this brilliant story, it’s amazing. So, if you’re looking for a fascinating tale full of ice queen sass, humour and heart-warming moments and so much more, then this book is for you.