Synopsis
Former childhood star and die-hard romantic Millie is bound for Key West from Washington DC, determined to fulfil a promise to her elderly best friend, Mrs Nash, by reuniting her ashes with her long-lost love. And if this grand gesture also happens to reassure a recently heartbroken Millie that believing in love isn't foolish, all for the better.
When flights are grounded, Millie is forced to catch a ride with Hollis, an also-stranded near-stranger from her ex's grad school. Hollis, a rising literary star, doesn't believe in forever-loves (or even for-now loves). He was headed to Miami for a no-strings-attached hook-up, in the hope of curing his writer's block.
But as Millie and Hollis make their way across country, racing down open highways and staying in questionable hotels, will their trip turn into a love story all their own?
Review
You know those books that catch your eye, but don't look like something you'd enjoy? That was this for me.
And as they say, don't judge a book by its cover.
Now as a quick note, I finished this book at the beginning of an illness which started a couple of weeks ago and I'm just getting my energy back and getting back to life as I knew it. I've also read another after that and i'm on to my next so my recollection of the whole plot it sketchy.
Anyway, Millie and Hollis come together early in the book after Millie is being idolized by an adult who adored her assets in her teens.... Hollis swoops in and saves her and then... splat! Hollis has the personality of a.... idiot. An idiot with writers block who seems to think a quick hook-up with an old friend in another state will help him.
Anyway, that's not happening because their flight is cancelled and although Millie asks and is declined to get a ride with Hollis eventually he stops being a dick and they head off on their road-trip.
Alot of miles. Small spaces and accidents mean that Millie and Hollis have to start adjusting to each others "quirks" One of those "quirks" being that Millie has the ashes of her old (age old) best friend in her bag who she's desperately trying to reunite with Mrs Nash's first love. But time is of the essence because death doesn't wait or care for anything.
I loved Mrs Nash's love story and also seeing how Millie and Hollis closed that gap between their personalities. it was one of those books that for the first few chapters maybe I was happy to read if I had the energy to. Then towards the end it was a MUST. If i was awake, I was reading.
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