Kys din kæreste på rejsen - Pia Konstantin Berg

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Title: Kys din kæreste på rejsen
Author: Pia Konstantin Berg
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: Audiobook ~5hrs
Date read: September, 2023

29-year-old Caroline's life is running smoothly. She's just bought an apartment and gotten her dream job as a music reviewer -- not to mention that she's dating her boss, Kaare. Everything is perfect... if you put aside the fact that Caroline hates writing ruthless reviews, that Kaare - by the way - is married, and that a deadly pandemic has closed down the country...

From one day to the next everything is cancelled. Friends are in isolation with their families, Kaare is with his family, and Caroline is furloghed. Her social life consists of daily phone calls with her overbearing parents, sporadic texts from her friends and random balcony-meetings with her neighbour John - a 94-year-old globetrotter with a fondness for alcohol and techno music.

Spring looks bleak, until Caroline literally runs into Casper one day and he turns her life upside down. His optimism is contagious, and even though he's not at all the kind of man she thought she was looking for... perhaps he's exactly the kind of man she needs?


Set in the time of the first Copenhagen corona lock-down it really captures the feeling of "this is nothing... huh, a press conference... crap! It's definitely NOT nothing!"

Not that this is primarily a story about corona though. It's a story about a new romance... about getting yourself out of an increasingly toxic relationship... about overbearing parents... about unusual friendships in the most random places.

It made me laugh out loud more times than I can count (I LOVED Caroline's and Casper's initial messages to each other), and was sweetly poignant in places too. Everybody ought to have a 94-year-old friend when times get tough. I want to be John when I get old!

The third-act breakup was unnecessary and made me subtract half a star... but it was realistic and also realistically resolved, so I've rounded up rather than down here on Goodreads. There was a lot to love in this book, and I'd like to add it to my library at some point.