Author: Josie Silver
Published: December 2018 by Broadway Books
Format: Hardcover, 393 pages
Genre: Romance
Missed opportunities and roads not taken drift into years of lies, deceptions, and buried feelings.
A chance glimpse through a bus window turns into a year of searching and dreaming about the man that Laurie saw on a bench. A search that could have been easily resolved if she had gone back to that bench and started her search from there. Then again, I tend to be more practical than romantic and this would have been a very short story instead of a novel.
It is not until a chance encounter when her roommate Sarah introduces her new boyfriend that Laurie once again sets eyes on the bus bench guy. Jack and Laurie know instantly who the other is, but to prevent drama and hard feelings, they each pretend not to recognize the other. Thus begins the drama in this made-for-millennials romance that has a fated couple desperately trying to avoid each other and yet wanting one more glimpse at what could have been. The ending is as sappy and tears-inducing as it should be, but before you can get there, you become invested in their lives, in what might have been, and ultimately, in what destiny intended for them.
As you read, you can visualize the big screen adaptation. The only question is – who will play Jack and Laurie and will Sarah get the screen time that she deserves.
A chance glimpse through a bus window turns into a year of searching and dreaming about the man that Laurie saw on a bench. A search that could have been easily resolved if she had gone back to that bench and started her search from there. Then again, I tend to be more practical than romantic and this would have been a very short story instead of a novel.
It is not until a chance encounter when her roommate Sarah introduces her new boyfriend that Laurie once again sets eyes on the bus bench guy. Jack and Laurie know instantly who the other is, but to prevent drama and hard feelings, they each pretend not to recognize the other. Thus begins the drama in this made-for-millennials romance that has a fated couple desperately trying to avoid each other and yet wanting one more glimpse at what could have been. The ending is as sappy and tears-inducing as it should be, but before you can get there, you become invested in their lives, in what might have been, and ultimately, in what destiny intended for them.
As you read, you can visualize the big screen adaptation. The only question is – who will play Jack and Laurie and will Sarah get the screen time that she deserves.
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