Genre: Romance, Women’s Fiction
Publication Date: September 23, 2022
Reviewed On: October 24, 2022
BASIC PLOT
As the clock strikes midnight over a disastrous New Year’s Eve and happy couples celebrate all around her, Kate makes a resolution, hastily scrawled on the back of a napkin, that next New Year’s Eve she will have found someone of her own to kiss.
But when you’re a forty-something cat-mom who’d rather binge Netflix than brave the singles scene, finding someone to kiss turns out to be harder than it sounds. Kate is totally unprepared for navigating hook-up apps, speed-dating, and sliding into somebody’s DMs.
With the end of the year rapidly approaching, Kate seems further than ever from reaching her goal. As relationships crumble around her and dark long-kept secrets spill out, could Kate’s fixation on her quest cause her to let true love slip through her fingers forever?
REVIEW
First... Let me start by saying that I very rarely post negative reviews. But Ever since I read this book, I have been on the fence about whether or not to post my review. As you read this review, just remember, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Just because this book didn't sit well with me... Doesn't mean someone else won't like it! I read this book as an ARC - Thank you Netgalley for a copy of the book. I had a hard time liking the main character - Kate. I don't know what it was, but I just couldn't connect with her and how she acted. I honestly felt embarrassed for her a few times. She's meant to be in her 40's, but 99.9% of the time she - and by extension her best friends as well, read as 20-something year olds. I also felt like there was a little too much going on. I appreciate the references to mental health, addiction and workplace harassment but I felt like it was a little much at times. It was mentioned that it was out of character for Kate to drink so much and I didn't feel that there was enough explanation to her friends as to why she was doing it. When it comes to Ben... He's a sweetheart. I liked him at first. Part of me understands why he basically ignored Kate and cut her out of my life, but at the same time, NO... She was obviously going through stuff in her life and cutting her out was not something that I expected. With Ben suffering from mental health issues, he would have been the perfect person to help her through her issues. Now Julie, the best friend. She's a functioning alcoholic. That much was obvious right from the beginning and damn did I feel for her. But, I expected a little more from her. Suffering with her illness I would have expected her to help Kate more as well since she knows what it's like and she saw the binge-drinking happening and she could have questioned it a little more. It's also worth mentioning that this book flips between present and past and has multiple POVs. Toss into that all the mental health topics, and well... It was just a little too much. At times I felt like it was triggering my anxiety. But again, just because I didn't like it... Doesn't mean you won't!
FAVOURITE QUOTES
Sadly, nothing stuck out as “WOW” or “LOVE THIS” from this book.
STAR RATING
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