Lily Chu Audiobooks

Just Kiss Already: contemporary romance with Phillipa Soo at the microphone

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

30 listener ratings

Main genres

Romance

Who is Lily Chu?

An imperative for a title, and an impatient one at that. Just Kiss Already announces its mode before a word of the story arrives: this is romance that knows exactly what the listener is waiting for and fully intends to make them wait a little longer. Lily Chu reaches our shelves through it, filed under romance and nothing else, which is its own kind of confidence.

Nine and a half hours is a full-length novel rather than a novella, and the length shapes the thing considerably. A book of that size has room for the misunderstanding that runs on too long, the friend group with strong opinions, the moment where somebody nearly says it and then does not. The catalogue offers the work and leaves the rest to it, which suits a novel whose entire premise is delayed gratification.

Lily Chu in audiobooks

Phillipa Soo narrates, and the casting tells you something about the register the recording is after: warmth, comic timing, a voice that can land a wry line without underlining it. Across nine and a half hours that consistency is what carries a romance through its quieter stretches.

Listener scores sit comfortably above four stars, though on a modest sample, so read them as early enthusiasm rather than settled consensus. Anyone who came to romance for banter rather than brooding should find the tone congenial from the opening chapter. What we hold is set out just below.