395 pgs.
2024
Adult romance
Finished 8/4/2024
Goodreads rating: 4.23
My rating: 4.25
Setting: Contemporary
My comments: A definite meet cute story that was quite enjoyable and ... well, cute...
When Daphne is jilted the night of her fiancé's bachelor party, she is pretty devastated, as you'd expect. That he jilted her to be with his best friend, a girls he's known since childhood, particularly upset her. And having no place to go, she ended up moving in with the also-jilted boyfriend of the so-called best friend. And it goes on from there. Daphne is a children's librarian and loves her job, but has a lot of hangups. Miles, her new roommate, also has a lot of hangups. And they seem to fit together just like two pieces of a perfect puzzle. He's too good to be true, actually. With a cast of bizarre characters that are a lot of fun and a narrator who is one of my favorites, I totally enjoyed listening to this book.
A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it... right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.
Which is how Daphne begins her new story: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.
Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned-up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?
But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex... right?
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