Rating: 4.5🌈
I forget how much I love this series until I read another book about that fabulous all inclusive diner in Boston and the people who live near it and have found their authentic selves and love there.
Cramming at Randy’s is one of my favorites. Alex Silver’s characters and their stories are so beautifully written and believable, funny, raw, young and compelling.
Ray, coming from the large loving Quebec home, to go to college in Boston, is everything. He’s a fully fleshed out person, multilingual, fearfully setting out to find his true identity and the ability to live as he knows he is, a man, not the girl his family thinks of him as.
He encounters Jordan, a student, who’s secure in their own right, but has struggled with their past romantic relationship. Together, they find themselves first friends helping each other out in classes and with Ray’s new transition.
Then it turns into romance.
Everything about them and their storyline is beautifully written. It sensitive and funny, moments where they become awkwardly young adults yet it’s sexy and loving. And it has one of the funniest scenes of coming out to a family I can remember.
And these families? Totally supportive and just as respectful and wonderful as the main characters.
Honestly, I could have done with a longer version because I enjoyed it so much.
This is a series not to be missed and this is a must read among them!
Highly recommended!
Great cover!
Cover design by Cormar Covers
Diner Days series -11 books:
🔷Written at Randy’s by Katherine McIntyre
🔷Final Boy at Randy’s by Loren Leigh
🔷Cramming at Randy’s by Alex Silver 🩷💚🌈
🔷Temptation at Randy’s by Emily Alter
🔷Hitched at Randy’s by A. E. Madsen
🔷Gaming at Randy’s by Duckie Mack
🔷Striking a Chord at Randy’s by K. C. Carmine
🔷Composed at Randy’s by Zile Elliven❤️
🔷Roleplay at Randy’s by Rikki Leighton
🔷Finding Home at Randy’s by Abrianna Denae
🔷Aftercare at Randy’s by R.A. Frick
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Blurb
These study buddies are getting randy.
When Ray transfers to university in Boston, he has every intention of using his new start in a new city to step out of the closet. His family knows he’s bi, but he hasn’t quite figured out how to tell them he isn’t the daughter they always thought of him as. His first new friend, Jordie, is the one who gives him the courage to follow through on living as himself. Ray has Jordie pegged as the one he wants to take from study buddy to steady date—he just needs to figure out how to get Jordie to see him as partner material.
With graduation in their sights, Jordie isn’t looking to mentor another baby queer. Let alone get tangled up in a messy crush after he imprints on them. But there’s something intoxicating about helping Ray embrace his gender euphoria. Is it really such a wild idea to turn their study dates at Randy’s into a love connection?
Love beyond the binary: serving up low angst trans romance at Randy’s Diner.
Cramming at Randy’s is an X/X friends to lovers standalone romance between a newly out demiboy transfer student and an openly genderqueer older student who helps him find the confidence to be himself.
- Publisher: (September 5, 2024)
- Publication date: September 5, 2024
- Language: English
- Print length: 285 pages
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 