Review: Misfits Like Us by Krista & Becca Ritchie

Misfits Like Us by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie
Series: Like Us #11
Published by K.B. Ritchie on July 22, 2022
Pages: 469
Genres: Romance


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As the eldest daughter of famous parents, Luna Hale is anything but normal. She escapes most days inside the fandoms she loves and the fics she writes, and she’s accepted that real life just sucks more than fiction. But there is someone who could rival every swoony man inside her imagination.

And he only lives three floors below her. Too bad he’s incredibly off-limits. Her brother’s bodyguard, eight years older (okay, sometimes, nine), and the son of meth addicts—the tattooed, shameless bodyguard is the only one her dad really hates. But Luna isn’t sure exactly why.

She’s trying not to be hung up on him.

Paul Donnelly is trying not to be hung up on her.

With his life among the security team and his friends at stake, he doesn’t need to make waves among the Hales, especially the notoriously overprotective Loren Hale, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Petty. But when Donnelly’s two best friends set a time and place for a double—no, a “triple” date—the countdown to finding a date is on.

Donnelly has no idea who he should bring. He just knows it can’t be her.

Luna finds herself in the same predicament as bad luck unfolds. Find a date.

And it can’t be him.

Yet, the more they try to stay away, the more the universe has other plans. Nowhere in Luna’s wildest imagination could she have predicted what happens next.

The slow burn heartache, feel-good fandom chats, lifelong friendships, and epic cosmic love of this next installment in the Like Us series will send your hearts into orbit with Luna & Donnelly, and you won’t want to make a landing without them.

It seems like the last three Like Us books went off the rails, so I’m happy to say Krista and Becca Ritchie have the series back on track with Misfits Like Us. This is Luna and Donnelly’s story that Lunnelly shippers have been waiting for.

I never realized how similar Luna Hale and Paul Donnelly are, even though Luna was born into American Royalty and Donnelly was painfully poor and basically abandoned growing up. They each love sci-fi, they both feel like misfits, and neither one cares what other people think of them. Donnelly not only accepts Luna’s quirks; he understands them. The two really are made for each other, and I enjoyed all the tender and funny moments they share. They are fire.

The biggest obstacle in them becoming a couple is that Luna’s dad, Lo, hates Donnelly. The book delves more into that, as well as the tension between Donnelly and his former client, Beckett. Despite Lo’s animosity towards Donnelly, I loved their banter. It reminds me of the banter between Lo and Rose, and sometimes even the one-upmanship nature of Maximoff and Farrow’s banter.

I’m looking forward to seeing how things shake out with Donnelley’s family and whether Lo can come to terms with Luna and Donnelly being together.

Recommended for fans of:
Fan fiction
Sci-fi
Star-crossed lovers
Tattoos
Slow-burn romance

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