This book is a tad confusing, as it seems as though it will be a reunited-friends-to-lovers sort of thing…except the couple in question were never more than brief acquaintances in the past. Nevertheless, the storyline is largely based on idea that Josh was hopelessly in love with Caroline in high school. And that, unbeknownst to her, he’s continued to carry a torch for her all these years. The problem is, the attraction that he had for her as a teen is used as a sort of a crutch, and the H/h never really connect in the here and now.
I felt like Josh was someone that we got to know fairly well—although, I must say, his Star Wars obsession was a little overplayed. Not that it was unrealistic, but just that as a concept, it was very overused in the storyline. In contrast, there was so little information about Caroline that I could never get a good grasp on who she was. We are told what her job is now, and a bit of who she was in high school. We are told, repeatedly, that she finds Josh incredibly sexually attractive…but that’s pretty much as deep as her character gets.
My other issue with this book was the multitude of sub-plots that were all over the place. So much of the storyline was bogged down with the Star Wars obsession, the actual makeover, dating advice, the People magazine thing (which made no sense plot-wise anyway), and the ridiculous and severely anti-climactic blackmail scheme. It just seems to me that any (or most) of those things could have been left out and that time better spent forming a real connection between the characters.
For the sake of full disclosure it must be stated that I received this book, free of charge, from Netgalley.