Early Review: Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots by Cat Sebastian

Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots

 by Cat Sebastian 

Pub date: November 15,  2022

 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

5 stars out of 5

I’ve been looking forward to reading more Cabot stories since I finished the first two over a year ago, and it did not disappoint. 

Daniel Cabot is a character study and a story about the gradual building of a relationship, filled with quiet moments that are both realistic and compelling. It always blows me away how Cat Sebastian can fit SO MUCH character development into so few pages. And you can always count on her to write incredibly unique, richly drawn people who you can’t help but fall in love with.

There is a foundation of kindness in this story, as there has been in the previous two Cabot novellas (or, really, ALL her books I suppose) that I find so beautiful and hopeful. Daniel and Alex take care of one another and others - friends and strangers both - in so many little ways and without wanting anything in return. It’s a refreshingly uncynical display of human decency that I absolutely love.

If you’ve read many of my other reviews, you know that one of my favorite things is when one character intuits the needs of another character and unhesitatingly provides those things, like Dev does for Charlie and his anxiety in The Charm Offensive. Here Daniel doesn’t question Alex’s autistic quirks; he accepts him as he is and doesn’t take his standoffishness or lack of social awareness personally. He loves who Alex is, the whole Alex and not *in spite of* his neurodivergent characteristics. 

▶️ Low angst, grumpy/sunshine, slow burn, spiceh spiceh love scenes, supportive friends and family, laugh out loud moments, two soft-hearted cinnamon roll MCs. All my favorite things. 🥰

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A+, massive hearteyes, ALL the stars. 

📆 ✨Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots✨ is out Nov 15 in ebook and paperback. (You can find the previous two Cabot novellas in ebook and paperback. I highly recommend them all.)


Many thanks to the author for providing the arc!


[Edited to add: the book now has a cover! See it here!]

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