Addie and her sister Debs are about to set off on a road trip to a friend's wedding in the north of Scotland. With Rodney, another wedding guest car sharing, they have everything ready until at a set of traffic lights, another car slams into the back of theirs, and the driver Addie's ex, Dylan, and his mate Marcus, who are also heading to the wedding.
With their car written off, Addie has no choice but to
offer them a ride. The car is soon jam-packed full of luggage and secrets, and
with three hundred miles ahead of them, Dylan and Addie can't avoid confronting
the very messy history of their relationship.
This was the third Beth O’Leary
book I’ve read and is the first one of hers that hasn’t completely blown me
away. There were certain aspects of the book that made me smile…truly funny
moments, but there were also points in the story when I thought “yeah right,
that would never happen.” I also found the “Then” and “Now” settings a little
confusing, as it was “Then and Now” for Addie, or “Then and Now” for Dylan, so
you had to remember whose side of the story you were reading and at times I got
lost.
Rodney was a lovely character,
and strangely, I really liked him, but felt that his storyline was just thrown
in at the end and his purpose for travelling to the wedding was a bit flimsy.
The idea was a great one, ramming
five adults into a Mini Cooper (can you really get that many people into such a
small car) and driving all the way to Scotland, with a boot full of suitcases
and a carload of emotional baggage makes for interesting reading, however it
felt like the longest and weirdest car journey of my entire life.
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