Laurie has been in a relationship with the same man for eighteen years. They've just started talking about having children when he abruptly breaks up with her. Laurie is... adrift. It just gets worse when she discovers, three months later, that his new girlfriend is two months pregnant. Working with her ex is agony. Getting trapped in an elevator is worse.A noted ladies man, Jamie Carter knows how to play the game. But he and Laurie work for an old-fashioned company that likes its partners to be paired up and Jamie doesn't want to do that. So getting trapped with Laurie sparks an idea, they can use each other to get what they want: a partnership and revenge.
I liked the message that Laurie told herself- she could cope. But the book took too long to get to the meat of the story for me. There was so much about Laurie and Dan and then Laurie on her own. If there had been a downplay of her relationship with Jamie (maybe more finding herself - more with her friends, Emily was awesome) or less of the journey to get to the beginning of the relationship, I would have liked the book better. And I never really got the feeling that Laurie was the kind of person who would revenge date anyway so that part of their relationship seemed flimsy. Once the story got started though, I liked watching them fall in love.
Three stars
This book comes out February 26th
ARC kindly provided by HarperCollins and NetGalley
Opinions are my own
