Synopsis
When college sweethearts Frankie and Ezra broke up before graduation, they vowed to never speak to each other again. Ten years later, on the eve of the new millennium, they find themselves back on their snowy, picturesque New England campus together for the first time for the wedding of mutual friends. But they wake up in bed next to each other with wedding bands on their fingers—and no idea how they got there. Over the course of one New Year’s Eve, together they have to face up to whether they can overcome and reevaluate their complicated past, look toward the future and ask themselves the most troubling question of all: what if they both got it wrong the first time around?
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Review
This book definitely brought back some college memories!
Frankie and Ezra had a pretty good thing going in college, but they wanted different things and probably weren’t in the place to realize how much they wanted or needed the other person. I can relate to that; I know when I graduated from college, I wasn’t the most mature when it came to relationships. But that is the great thing about time; you grow and learn how to succeed in all aspects of your life. It took Frankie and Ezra 10 years to realize that what they had in college might just be the real deal.
However, it takes trying to relive the previous night that neither can remember to piece together what happened. How did they both come to be wearing wedding rings? How did Frankie get that lump on her head? How did they end up in one of the dorms? All good questions and the answers take input from others to bring forth the memories of what really happened.
Frankie and Ezra both have their issues from their formative years. Frankie and her genius ability on the piano. Ezra dealing with his mother’s cancer. I don’t think their lives were what they needed to become until they forged out on their own. I found it interesting that Ezra created a computer program that he sold for a pile of money. This was pre-2000, before the great computer explosion. I remember having a computer in 1995 and learning how to operate it, but the computers were nothing like we have today.
It is obvious that Frankie and Ezra had issues with communication and the ability to share their true feelings with each other. I don’t think they really knew each other until they reconnected at a friend’s wedding. However, each learns something from this time at their old alma mater, and they just might come out ahead in the end.
If you enjoy second-chance romances, you might enjoy this one.
We give it 4 paws up.
About the Author
Allison Winn Scotch is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including Time of My Life, In Twenty Years, and Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing. A cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied history and marketing, Winn Scotch now lives in Los Angeles.
