Bestselling author Lily Lee is on a short deadline to deliver her new career guide How to Land the Perfect Job, and she's been interviewing at all the top companies around town. But when she's offered a coveted position at her dream company, the employer's background check reveals she never actually finished her college degree. Unbelievably, her worst nightmare has come true.
Lily returns to her alma mater to relive her senior year of college, after walking across the stage at graduation a decade earlier. Just as she starts getting used to the idea of being a student again, things get even more weird and chaotic when she discovers her computer science TA is her old college boyfriend, Jake Cho.
As Lily and Jake reconnect, she sees that her late-blooming ex has done well for himself: the handsome, charming grad student appears to have his life together, while Lily's on the brink of losing her reputation and her book deal.
Told in present day with glimpses of the past, The Do-Over is a delightfully warm and hopeful story about second chances in life and love, and how the future might not be a straight line, but we still end up exactly where we're supposed to be.
Title : The Do-Over
Author : Suzanne Park
Format : Physical
Page Count : 386
Genre : Romance
Publisher : Harper 360
Release Date : April 4, 2023
Reviewer : Micky
Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★
Micky's 4 star review
The Do-Over took one determined and feisty female and pulled the rug out from under her, her qualifications and left her with no option but to return to university. The literal stuff of nightmares! There, Lily found her ex still lurking the halls but now as a TA and PhD candidate. Can you see the foreshadowing?
Jake was pretty charming and although it took a while to find out the whys of their break up, it also gave time for them to reconnect. I fully enjoyed Lily's return to campus, her battling with inner self over being there. Life as a mature student and her dynamic with younger students was entertaining.
The romance had a roller coaster feeling to it and I enjoyed the ride. This was a low steam but bubbling chemistry kind of read.
This book would suit that easy summer reading vibe and its a recommend from me.
Thank you to Harper 360UK for the review copy.
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