Lunar Love

Chinese American Olivia Huang Christenson has just taken over her grandmother’s matchmaking business, Lunar Love. She is terrified. Then, when she learns that Bennett O’Brien, the most eligible bachelor in L.A., is planning his own matchmaking app based on users’ Chinese zodiac animals, she is furious. When Olivia and Bennett appear together on a podcast, they make a wager—the first one to match the other using their respective businesses will be the winner. The only problem is that they never expected to fall in love with each other. Jessen’s debut is a sweet, food-filled romance about learning to embrace one’s culture and oneself. Narrator Raechel Wong empathetically describes Olivia’s many challenges as she takes on new adventures, learns to trust herself, and grows as a person. Though this book is a romance, it is also about rethinking long-held beliefs about tradition and love in order to find one’s place in the world. Listeners might enjoy the many descriptions of food and culture as much as the romance itself.