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Either you\u2019re in the wrong place at the wrong time or you\u2019re in the right place at the right time\u2026but, have you ever been at the right place at the wrong time?<\/p>\n
Laurie was having a typical day as she was riding the bus home from work on a snowy December day in London when her eyes locked eyes with a man who quite literally took her breath away.\u00a0 As she silently willed him to get on at this stop, the bus pulled away and crushed her heart with each passing block.\u00a0 She would spend the next year searching London with her best friend, Sarah, for her \u201cbus boy.\u201d\u00a0 Just when she thinks she will never find him, she sees him at a Christmas party a year later; except, he is being introduced as Sarah\u2019s new boyfriend, Jack.\u00a0 Distraught, Laurie tries to navigate her complex predicament of being in love with her best friend\u2019s boyfriend, and it doesn\u2019t make their situation any easier that Jack drops hints that he might feel the same way.\u00a0 Vowing to not act on their feelings, they decide it is best to move on in life as friends.\u00a0 Through future relationships with other people, they remain a constant in each other\u2019s lives.\u00a0 Over the next ten years they are left questioning whether they made the right decision to chalk up their love at first sight moment on the bus as a purely coincidental moment in time where their paths just happened to cross.\u00a0 One thing is for sure; they are forever tied to each other, and the ending of their love story is theirs to either write or theirs to dismiss.<\/p>\n
If I\u2019m being honest, this is not my favorite genre.\u00a0 I usually find the writing lazy, the inner and external dialogue cheesy, and the romantic scenes cringy.\u00a0 With that being said, this book was a pleasant surprise!<\/p>\n
I loved the characters and found the back and forth perspectives of Laurie and Jack clear and entertaining.\u00a0 Sometimes when authors do the dual perspectives, elements of the story get lost (or you get the cheesy internal dialogue at which I previously hinted). \u00a0I found the characters believable and relatable (sometimes authors can go to extremes in character personalities).\u00a0 Laurie was just sweet enough, but also imperfect in the most endearing ways.\u00a0 Sarah was written as the quirky, extroverted, best friend, but she wasn\u2019t so over the top that it was unbelievable.\u00a0 Jack was perfect, but also perfectly flawed, and the reader was torn between really rooting for him and also secretly planning his demise.\u00a0 Then there was Oscar.\u00a0 I wanted to hate him because I was Team Jack from the beginning, but the way he was written left me feeling conflicted.\u00a0 I wanted Laurie to end up with Jack, but I could also have seen a future with her and Oscar.\u00a0 Indeed, they would have both been settling, but their life was a fairly happy one and even though neither one was 100% happy, they could have powered through on the unstable foundation that they had built in their marriage. I was invested in the story from the very beginning and was constantly wondering what kind of ending the book would have (if it would have a \u201cSleepless in Seattle\u201d ending or a \u201cThe Break Up\u201d ending).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"