About the Book:
Ingrid Dahl, a cheerful twenty-nine-year-old librarian in the cozy mountain town of Ridgetop, North Carolina, has been happily dating her college boyfriend, Cory, for eleven years without ever discussing marriage. But when Ingrid’s sister announces her engagement to a woman she’s only been dating for two years, Ingrid and Cory feel pressured to consider their future. Neither has ever been with anybody else, so they make an unconventional decision. They'll take a one-month break to date other people, then they'll reunite and move toward marriage. Ingrid even has someone in mind: her charmingly grumpy coworker, Macon Nowakowski, on whom she’s secretly crushed for years. But plans go awry, and when the month ends, Ingrid and Cory realize they’re not ready to resume their relationship―and Ingrid’s harmless crush on Macon has turned into something much more complicated.
My Review:
This book just did not appeal to me. I did not like the idea of a relationship being formed on living together and having sex. That she and her long time live together boyfriend are taking time apart to experience other people just does not ring right with me. I do appreciate Ingrid's many attempts to find a new boyfriend, especially when she is a bit older than those in the usual dating scene. I felt the action was slow, the book plodding. This book is longer than it needed to be considering the plot.
My rating: 3/5 stars.
About the Author:
Stephanie Perkins is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author and anthology editor of multiple books, including Overdue, Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, Isla and the Happily Ever After, and My True Love Gave to Me, as well as There’s Someone Inside Your House, which was adapted into a major motion picture for Netflix. She has always worked with books―first as a bookseller, then as a librarian, and now as a novelist. She lives in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband. Every room of their house is painted a different color of the rainbow.
Saturday Books, 416 pages.
I received a complimentary egalley of this book from the publisher. Mine is an independent review.
(My star ratings: 5-I love it, 4-I like it, 3-It's OK, 2-I don't like it, 1-I hate it.)
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