Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall

Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So this will tell you more about me and about some of the people in my life, but I really loved this book. Paris presents as a whiny prat as he is full of anxiety. Or more like ANXIETY. I see him. I get it.

I also see why some reviewers found this book exhausting and Paris unbearable as a MC but as someone with ADHD and Anxiety, among other things, I was just wondering how Alexis Hall saw into my teenage/20 something brain. In fairness, it may be exhausting to read about but it is more exhausting to live with it for sure. The self doubt, the anxieties, the what if’s, the imposter syndrome, not getting social cues, the inability to communicate in a way that makes relationships work and healthy. I felt all of it as someone who has lived all of it. 

From this perspective I found this book so relatable, and I laughed out loud so many times. Mostly because I have learned to laugh at myself.

So I LOVED this book. I laughed, I cried, I wanted Paris to get his head out of his ass. I wanted the bigots not to win. I wanted to hear what Tariq was going to try to do next. I could not put this down. I had the paperback and the audible because I just could not stop.

What I also loved was the diversity and representation of multiple different types of characters. Alexis Hall covers a range of personalities and backgrounds and it made the story richer to me.

⏰ It did not take long because I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN
🌶️ So Paris’s brain and his roommate make this very adult. But while that is all spicy the love story between the 2 MC is very mild. And the reason may surprise you - it did me and I appreciated a different kind of story. 
⚠️trigger warnings: crap parents that should not have had a kid, parental abandonment, anxiety, panic disorder, racism, social anxiety 
🏷️ 
#romcom (I stand by this bc I laughed my butt off a multiple times, but I get why some people argue this point)
#LGBTQ+ 
#yeschef
#cookingcompetitionromance
#catswithexoticnames
#catherineparrwasahorribleracist


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