Winnie is an aspiring playwright, currently working as an assistant to Juliette. When one of Juliette’s plays is restaged for one night only in London, Winnie travels across the pond with Juliette to see it done. Everything is going great until Juliette’s nephew Liam enters the picture. Juliette doesn’t want Winnie to date her nephew but Winnie and Liam just can’t seem to stay away from each other.
This book was a miss for me. I honestly didn’t like either of the characters and I couldn’t figure out why they liked each other. Winnie seemed a bit self-centered and I didn’t see what was so attractive about Liam other than the fact that he was good-looking. In fact, I didn’t realize until I was about 75 pages into the book that Liam was a character from Kate Bromley’s previous book Talk Bookish To Me (I hope that is not a spoiler to anyone). I didn’t love him in that book and I didn’t love him here.
In my opinion, Juliette asking her employee to not get involved with her nephew was perfectly reasonable and for Winnie and Liam to just disregard her feelings, was quite rude. It seemed like Winnie and Liam met, and in the span of 10 minutes, they decided that even though they are perfect strangers and Winnie’s boss has asked them to not get involved with one another, they are going to go out with one another anyway. It would have been one thing if their relationship had some sort of foundation, but it didn’t which is why I didn’t understand the need for them to date.
This book has a lot of great banter but at times it was a bit much. It felt like every single conversation between Winnie and Liam was filled with banter and witty sayings. It got old really fast and I found myself rolling my eyes at a lot of things the characters said. I just couldn’t believe that Winnie and Liam were that amusing and sarcastic all of the time.
Additionally, and this is just me, I thought that it was a bit weird that Winnie decides to adopt a dog she found on the street even though she is only going to be in the country for 3 weeks. I have a lot of questions about the pet adoption process in London. I also have a lot of questions about the pet importation process to the United States that Winnie seems to know nothing about and is entirely glossed over.
Honestly, I would have much rather read a book about Juliette or the other assistant, Roshini.
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