Yael Koenig is a librar­i­an who hosts a pod­cast, The Sopho­more Eng­lish Agen­da, under the pseu­do­nym Elle King. On The Sopho­more Eng­lish Agen­da, she dis­cuss­es the books on the read­ing list of the high school where she works. As the pod­cast climbs in pop­u­lar­i­ty (and after a par­tic­u­lar­ly rough men­tal health episode), she decides she needs an edi­tor. She reach­es out to her best friend, who rec­om­mends Kevin Kissoon, a pod­cast edi­tor who will light­en Yael’s load and allow her to focus on the con­tent of the pod­cast. A pro­fes­sion­al rela­tion­ship between Kevin and Elle turns into some­thing more, with both of them falling head­long for one anoth­er over roman­ti­cal­ly charged (and decid­ed­ly non-pro­fes­sion­al) emails and texts. 

Ravi, an audio edi­tor, meets Yael in a less-than-ide­al man­ner-while sneak­ing out of her bed­room win­dow as he’s try­ing to ghost Yael’s room­mate Char­lie after a one-night stand. After Ravi sees Yael’s request for cofa­cil­i­ta­tors for a queer book club at the high school, he shows up and is shocked to find that not only is Yael the oth­er facil­i­ta­tor, she is also the librar­i­an for the high school — and the woman whose room he just snuck out of. Ini­tial­ly, she treats him with thin­ly veiled con­tempt, but as the weeks go by and they spend time togeth­er dis­cussing books and their lives, there is some­thing between them that begins to build — and some­thing about Ravi that is hard for Yael to resist. 

As Kevin and Elle make the dif­fi­cult deci­sion to not con­tin­ue their email romance, Ravi and Yael are falling for each oth­er. Yael has no idea that Kevin is actu­al­ly Ravi. When Ravi dis­cov­ers the truth, will Yael be able to for­give him for keep­ing the knowl­edge from her? Will their sparks turn into some­thing more, or will the betray­al ruin the rela­tion­ship they’ve built?

Isn’t It Obvi­ous is a You’ve Got Mail, ene­mies-to-lovers mash-up for the mod­ern era. With a delight­ful cast of diverse char­ac­ters, read­ers will find them­selves root­ing for both Ravi and Yael, hop­ing they’re able to fig­ure out who each oth­er is before it’s too late. With deep cul­tur­al touch­points, some spicy roman­tic scenes, and authen­ti­cal­ly com­pli­cat­ed fam­i­ly and friend­ship, Isn’t It Obvi­ous is a beau­ti­ful sto­ry of being true to who you are, and grab­bing hold of love wher­ev­er it finds you.