The Climb by Amra Pajalic Audiobook

Thank you @lovebookstours for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. I listen to the Climb on audiobook and its young adult teenage romance novella. This is the first book I have read by Amra Pajalic and I really enjoyed it. The narrators were Nina Nikilic and Alec Shea, and they worked well together. The characters were Noah and Zephyra who have been best friends from high school. Noah is started to get feelings for Zephyra, but she looks at him as a brother. I enjoyed following their friendship and then taking it slow to see what happens. I found this a very easy read and Amra writing is very engaging, and you can't help but enjoy the characters. I did feel sorry for Noah every time Zephyra came near him, he would get excited and could not help what happened to him. Both characters are lovely and this is a feel good read. I will definitely being read more of Amra books. 5 stars. I listen to the audio in 2 hours straight, and I hope there is second book because I like to see what happens next, and I enjoyed listening to the narratives Blurb Noah and Zephyra have been best friends since they started high school. Zephyra thinks of Noah as a brother. Noah thinks Zephyra is the one. Zephyra’s only interest in romance is between the covers of her favourite romance novels. Noah believes now that they’re sixteen it’s just a matter of time until their friendship becomes a relationship. When they are completing a one week bike marathon their friendship hits some unexpected speed bumps. Will their friendship turn into something more or will they crash? The Climb, a young adult contemporary romance. Author Bio: Amra Pajalić is an award-winning author, an editor and teacher who draws on her Bosnian cultural heritage to write own voices stories for young people, who like her, are searching to mediate their identity and take pride in their diverse culture. Her short story collection The Cuckoo’s Song (Pishukin Press, 2022) features previously published and prize-winning stories. Her debut novel The Good Daughter, was published by Text Publishing in 2009 and won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Civic Choice Award and is re-released as Sabiha’s Dilemma (Pishukin Press, 2022). Her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. She is co-editor of the anthology Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014) which was shortlisted for the 2015 Children’s Book Council of the year awards. She works as a high school teacher and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at La Trobe University. Amra Pajalić publishes her dark fiction using pen name A. P. Pajalic. She also publishes romance novels under pen name Mae Archer. Website: http://www.amrapajalic.com/