“If anything could confirm that weather isn’t small talk, it’s this. Weather connects us. A shared experience, even when we aren’t in the same place.” – 4/5 stars!

Attention! This book contains: red lipstick, weather-themed clothes, theater kids, college football, weather reports, Jewish holidays, and chaotic bosses.

Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her tempestuous relationship with her ex-husband, the station’s news director, to give Ari the mentorship she wants. Ari, who runs on sunshine and optimism, is at her wits’ end. The only person who seems to understand how she feels is sweet but reserved sports reporter Russell Barringer.

In the aftermath of a disastrous holiday party, Ari and Russell decide to team up to solve their bosses’ relationship issues. Between secret gifts and double dates, they start nudging their bosses back together. But their well-meaning meddling backfires when the real chemistry builds between Ari and Russell.

Working closely with Russell means allowing him to get to know parts of herself that Ari keeps hidden from everyone. Will he be able to embrace her dark clouds as well as her clear skies?

A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results in this charming romantic comedy from the author of The Ex Talk.

This was a very fun and unique story! I don’t remember reading a book set in a news station that follows a meteorologist, so that was news to me.
The premise of this book is that the main characters are trying to set their bosses together to bring peace to the news station. If I’m being honest, the plot itself wasn’t very interesting to me – I didn’t care too much about them trying to get their bosses together, so that’s why I probably didn’t rate this a little higher. Also, don’t get me started on that last “conflict” because it was pretty dumb.
The characters were great, but I especially loved the love interest Russel. Not only it is not common to see overweight single dads as male leads (which was refreshing), but I really liked his personality and how kind he was. Ari was a fine main character as well, I don’t have anything to say about her – the depression representation felt very real.
Other things I liked about this book: the weather theme was fun and different, the writing was very easy to follow, and the MC’s backstories were also interesting and added a layer of depth.
Even though I liked this book, I didn’t connect to it as much as I did with the other book by the same author, “The Ex Talk”. I still liked it for being entertaining and an unique story!