Publisher: Berkley
Genre: Romance
Source: Library

Goodreads: A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends.

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.

They broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.

Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week… in front of those who know you best?

Ope’s Opinion: This book is not my happy place of reading. It spent so much time focused on the physical relationship between Harriet and Wyn. There was very little mention of anything they enjoyed about each other outside of the bedroom.

The constant push and pull of their relationship was very repetitive. It was frustrating to the point that I was yelling at the book – just keep your hands off of each other long enough to talk about it. When they finally did talk – really? – that is what the break up was all about?

I am not sure why I kept reading, but I did. Now I am not sure the ending was worth pushing through it. As romances go, this had your happily ever after, but the journey was too hard to get there.