Alyssa is on a spur of the moment holiday to try to forget that her cheating ex-fiancé of eight years is marrying someone else.
Enter Luke, a good looking guy who could help to distract her and prove to herself that she can be fun and spontaneous.
The problems/ things that were plain weird:
(I just want to add that because this is a novella, I didn't expect anything amazing. Hoped, yes. Expected, no.)
⚪Alyssa and Luke strike up a conversation after a bartender lets out to Luke that Alyssa's boyfriend broke up with her, is getting married, etc, basically a lot of private information, this leads to Luke telling her stuff about his ex, and not just the bare minimum but detailed stuff like how she didn't get along with his brothers, blah blah blah.
And almost immediately after this they make a deal to be friends with benefits. Except without out the friends part.
"I don't know you, and you don't know me. No need to share our deepest and darkest secrets. No last names, no following each other's Instagram, no strings or expectations."
Um…. Too little, too late!You already know a lot about each other.
Making that pact was stupid, especially considering how a few chapters later they're revealing all to each other anyway, thus rendering the title pointless.
⚪ A little later, for some inane reason (probably the same reason they made that deal), Luke tells some people (don't really know who, I was skimming) that he and Alyssa are in a relationship.
Oh, wait I remember, it's because this girl - Savannah - kept hitting on him. Just say you're not interested, dude.
Instead (the genius he is) he fakes a relationship, resulting in him and Alyssa faking stories to convince a bunch of people, they barely know, that they're together, just because Luke couldn't convince a girl (who is repeatedly described as model-like, btw) to back off.
⚪Back to this Savannah person, she chases Luke determinedly but the second she finds out about Alyssa, she's backs and starts hanging out with her like they're besties. Which is good. I mean, I'm glad she didn't try and make her jealous or whatever usually happens but she wants to know all about Luke and Alyssa's relationship. Barely a moment ago, she was crazy for him and now?
I bring her up specially because halfway through the story Savannah ends up being bitten by a snake (the boat overturns, they end up on an island or something like that, having to fight for survival. I don't really know. I was majorly skimming at this point) and she's in a lot of pain, and the bites could be poisonous but somehow, a few pages later while being carried by Luke she manages to ask him about his relationship with Alyssa.
To recap, Savannah is :
in a lot of pain
has just been bitten by a snake that could be poisonous
not near a hospital so cannot be treated ASAP
being carried, indicating she is unable to walk
And yet, she still finds the energy to care about Luke and his relationship with a girl she just met.
"She's good for you." Her words slurred."
She's slurring her words!!
"It's just temporary, no earth shattering love affair. Sorry to disappoint you."
Is what Luke says in reply.
But, wait a minute! Wasn't he pretending to be in a fake relationship with Alyssa because of Savannah? Oh, yes he was. Huh, looks like it doesn't matter anymore now that Savannah is delusional and half dead injured.
⚪ "Maybe she thought she was fooling him with her pseudo bad girl act, but he could tell she was genuinely kind."
If he could tell, then why think it in the first place?!
⚪There's more ridiculousness but my battery's getting low and I know I don't care enough to ever return to this review, so there you have it.
If you want to know more about the awful writing, you'll have to read this yourself.