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If I Never Met You
by Mhairi McFarlane
I loveeeeeeedddd this book. It’s like a cup of tea and fresh baked cookies on cold day. I loved it so much I stayed up until 2 a.m. to finish it (I know, closin’ them bookstores DOWN) and then woke up this morning in a book slump depressed that I had finished it.
SO I picked up one of this author’s other books…actually two of them…last year and fell in love. Sure, a good rom com isn’t too hard to come by these days, but what I love about these novels is that they tend to have a little more depth to them. The two main characters have other interests, other friends, other things going on in their lives that not only makes it more realistic (because life ain’t all sunshine and roses) and adds some dimension to the story.
So who are our characters, you ask? Laurie is a thirty-six year old lawyer is good at her job and happy with her partner of eighteen years, Dan. She’s got a couple good friends and feels like she’s ready to get married and/or have a baby with Dan. They even get to work together – how cute!
Until she comes home one night and Dan confesses that he’s tired of their relationship. Yep, dumps her after eighteen years so he can go off and find himself and he doesn’t want to settle down and start a family. If you’re thinking that’s BS, you’re right. Because about ten seconds later he gets his brand-new girlfriend knocked up and everyone at their shared office knows.
Laurie is barely keeping it together, and who can blame her, when a chance encounter in an elevator with the office playboy offers a shot at getting back at Dan. And no, no one does the nasty in the elevator. They get stuck together and strike up a conversation that develops into a plan.
Thing is, Jamie is a young, hotshot lawyer who likes to play the field. And as much as the big bosses like him, they’re old dudes who think he needs to “settle” down. Solution: a fake romance!
Laurie gets back at Dan (look at me over here having the time of my life with this younger stud) and Jamie proves he can be a stable gentleman and get his promotion! No problems, right?
Of course, things don’t go as planned. Then suddenly there’s this attraction between Laurie and Jamie that’s almost too good to be true. Life hurls things into their paths and they end up getting way closer than planned. They ALMOST don’t make it, but spoiler ahead, they do.
It’s a rom com, sure. But it has heart.
It’s not a fifty-fifty split between Jamie and Laurie, so you don’t get to know him as well. The other tiny thing that bothered me was how the characters said Haha or Hahahahahah or Harhar a lot. Like once I started seeing it, it wouldn’t go away. Random thing I wish the editor had gotten rid of.
Other than that, IT WAS PERFECT.
SO I picked up one of this author’s other books…actually two of them…last year and fell in love. Sure, a good rom com isn’t too hard to come by these days, but what I love about these novels is that they tend to have a little more depth to them. The two main characters have other interests, other friends, other things going on in their lives that not only makes it more realistic (because life ain’t all sunshine and roses) and adds some dimension to the story.
So who are our characters, you ask? Laurie is a thirty-six year old lawyer is good at her job and happy with her partner of eighteen years, Dan. She’s got a couple good friends and feels like she’s ready to get married and/or have a baby with Dan. They even get to work together – how cute!
Until she comes home one night and Dan confesses that he’s tired of their relationship. Yep, dumps her after eighteen years so he can go off and find himself and he doesn’t want to settle down and start a family. If you’re thinking that’s BS, you’re right. Because about ten seconds later he gets his brand-new girlfriend knocked up and everyone at their shared office knows.
Laurie is barely keeping it together, and who can blame her, when a chance encounter in an elevator with the office playboy offers a shot at getting back at Dan. And no, no one does the nasty in the elevator. They get stuck together and strike up a conversation that develops into a plan.
Thing is, Jamie is a young, hotshot lawyer who likes to play the field. And as much as the big bosses like him, they’re old dudes who think he needs to “settle” down. Solution: a fake romance!
Laurie gets back at Dan (look at me over here having the time of my life with this younger stud) and Jamie proves he can be a stable gentleman and get his promotion! No problems, right?
Of course, things don’t go as planned. Then suddenly there’s this attraction between Laurie and Jamie that’s almost too good to be true. Life hurls things into their paths and they end up getting way closer than planned. They ALMOST don’t make it, but spoiler ahead, they do.
It’s a rom com, sure. But it has heart.
It’s not a fifty-fifty split between Jamie and Laurie, so you don’t get to know him as well. The other tiny thing that bothered me was how the characters said Haha or Hahahahahah or Harhar a lot. Like once I started seeing it, it wouldn’t go away. Random thing I wish the editor had gotten rid of.
Other than that, IT WAS PERFECT.