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‘Joyful, romantic and life-affirming.’ Red Magazine ‘It had me totally gripped.’ Beth O’Leary, author of The Flatshare ‘A love story that is guaranteed to make you smile.’ Closer What if you almost missed the love of your life?
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Excellently Executed. This is a romance tale where the entire premise is that our central couple keeps just missing each other, and it really works. The cuts between perspectives in different scenes are amazing, showing the couple at various points literally in the same place at the same time... and completely missing each other. It is a romance though and does have a happily ever after, but Williams does an amazing job of holding that off until almost literally the last second. Funny where it needs to be, serious where it needs to be, and overall a fun romantic comedy. Very much recommended.
The description of this book sounds very cheesy and whilst it is, it's the best kind - like brie or camembert. The audio narration is amazing and I flew through this. This book is pretty much what it says on the packaging but executed very well. My advice is if your thinking about it, read it!
minor spoilers
- they didn't meet until about 80% of the way through the book
- Daniel is the most white bread boring ass character I have ever read
- the guy Nadia dates that is included in maybe 4 chapters was more interesting & appealing than him
- Daniel was given virtually no character traits other than having a dad who died & having a shit roommate
- Nadia was given virtually no character traits other than being in an abusive relationship & having 2 friends
- situations are constantly written in seemingly with the sole purpose to show you that Daniel is a Good Guy™
- the political & social commentary felt so out of place and not organic
- what was going on w/Nadia's friends felt so obvious to me and like?? didn't add anything to the story at all
- the constant “omg they're in the same place at the same time but don't know! omg they almost went on a date but didn't! omg almost met but didn't!!!” was EXHAUSTING and again, felt so inorganic
- so many grammatical & spelling errors like what!!
- MISSED CONNECTIONS ARE FOR PEOPLE YOU DON'T THINK YOU WILL SEE AGAIN NOT FOR THE GIRL WHO IS ON YOUR TRAIN EVERY FUCKING DAY JUST WALK UP TO HER AND SAY HELLO
- who tf wears a waistcoat with nothing underneath to a movie like Nadia come get your mans