All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim is a queer contemporary rom-com with dual timeline (4/5 stars)

All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim is a queer contemporary rom-com with dual timelines. I listened to the audiobook, which clocks in at just under ten hours and is narrated by Aaron J. Albano. The audiobook producers do an AMAZING job here, with music and sound effects.

This is a very solid debut. I didn’t expect to cry so much! This rom-com definitely has heart.

The dual timelines are labeled as “Then” and “Now” chapters, though they are always from Quito’s perspective. The past timeline is during Quito’s senior year of high school, and the present timeline is twenty years later. Note that there are heavy topics discussed here; it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. The author lists CWs at the beginning of the book in detail.

I was really pleased by the amount of diversity in this book. There’s a lot of Filipino food sprinkled throughout the story, which made me hungry!

There is a LOT of the miscommunication trope in here. It’s not usually a favorite trope of mine.

TROPES: slow burn, second chance, childhood friends to lovers, miscommunication, dual timelines, closeted Hollywood heartthrob

CW: grief, parental death, dubious consent, homophobia, homophobic slur, drug and alcohol abuse, infidelity, domestic abuse, casual transphobia, sexual assault

I received a copy of this book to review. All opinions contained herein are my own.

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