What if the Lift driver who finds your cheating boyfriend's phone holds the directions to true love?
'Who are you and why do you have my boyfriend's phone?'
'He left it in my car. You must be the blonde in the red dress? I'm the Lift driver who dropped you two off earlier.'
And with these words, the life of the brunette and t-shirt wearing Maya Maas is turned upside down. Having planned to surprise her boyfriend, she finds herself single and stranded in an unknown city on her birthday.
So when the mystery driver rescues Maya with the suggestion that she cheers herself up at a nearby beach town, she jumps at the chance to get things back on track. She wasn't expecting a personalised itinerary or the easy companionship that comes from opening up to a stranger via text, let alone the possibility it might grow into something more...
Publishing Date: September 2, 2021
Genre: Romance
Age Group: Adult
My Rating: 2/5
This book was just... aggressively average. The main character was okay. The love interest was okay. The plot was okay. The twist was predictable, but okay.
The only thing that was *good* was the setting (Carmel, for those Bay Area natives!).
Also, the book is pretty much nothing like the synopsis. The synopsis is true, but it only represents like 10% of the novel (when Maya actually has this experience). Most of the novel is about being a writer and having another author steal this life experience (of getting cheated on and learning via a driver) for his upcoming novel. Even though this was still interesting for me, I could see how some readers who are expecting something different could be disappointed.
Overall, I'm glad I read this book because it helped me realize that I don't enjoy a particular romance trope. But, if you want a summer read with the beach-town feels, maybe pick this one up?
Thank you Aria for the ARC.
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