3.5 Stars
Daphne always loved
the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day),
fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to
begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment
he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.
Which is how Daphne
begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without
friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely
pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could
possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.
Scruffy and
chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love
ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose
coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either
FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one
day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan.
If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their
summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?
But it’s all just for
show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new
chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex . . . right?
Took a minute for me
to get into the story but once I did I enjoyed it. The premise was cute. Daphne
is dumped by her Fiancé and moves in with the ex of the woman who is now dating
the Fiancé. I liked Daphne and Miles. They both got screwed over by their
partners. The little lie they gave about dating made sense and I loved how
upset the exs were about this.
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