Publisher: William Morrow
Genre: Romance
Source: William Morrow ( Netgalley )

Goodreads: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and Attachments comes Slow Dance—a bright, beaming power ballad of a novel about a love so true it refuses to be forgotten.

Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together . . . everybody but Shiloh and Cary.

They were just friends. Best friends. Allies. They spent entire summers sitting on Shiloh’s porch steps, dreaming about the future. They were both going to get out of north Omaha—Shiloh would go to college and become an actress, and Cary would join the Navy. They promised each other that their friendship would never change.

Well, Shiloh did go to college, and Cary did join the Navy. And yet, somehow, everything changed.

Now Shiloh’s thirty-three, and it’s been fourteen years since she talked to Cary. She’s been married and divorced. She has two kids. And she’s back living in the same house she grew up in. Her life is nothing like she planned.

When she’s invited to an old friend’s wedding, all Shiloh can think about is whether Cary will be there—and whether she hopes he will be. Would Cary even want to talk to her? After everything?

The answer is yes. And yes. And yes.

Slow Dance is the story of two kids who fell in love before they knew enough about love to recognize it. Two friends who lost everything. Two adults who just feel lost.

It’s the story of Shiloh and Cary, who everyone thought would end up together, trying to find their way back to the start.

Ope’s Opinion: Rainbow Rowell is an author I have really enjoyed, this one just didn’t catch me like her pervious stories did. The synopsis sounded amazing, but the title tells you a lot – it is a very slow dance. I felt like the story was prolonged beyond my attention span. For some reason I could not get attached to Shiloh and Cary.

The flash backs were suppose to help us understand Shiloh and Cary’s relationship then, so we would understand them now. But because the flashbacks were in particular order, I wasn’t sure where in the relationship I was reading. The current time was more interesting to me.

I know miscommunication is suppose to create tension in a story and it does in this story, but after a while I wanted to yell – talk to each other and be honest. Then at the end ( no surprises here ) all is swept under the rug and they are happy.