Erin La Rosa,
shows that maybe to understand love, one needs to go back and find out why it
didn't work out before:
Sophie is a romance writer who has never been in Love. She has written one successful book and now her editor and publisher is wanting more, but Sophie is unable to write anything. With deadline looming Sophie decides to do something drastic, she decides to go visit her exes and try to determine why they never fell in love, what went wrong in their relationships. Maybe visiting the past will help shape her future. Especially, when her landlord, Dash Montrose (former Teen Heartthrob) has been interacting with her more. But Dash is not sure if he is in a good place to be in a relationship and not sure if he can offer the commitment that Sophie seems to want. All both know is that they do need to figure themselves out before the commit to anything else
This is the first book that I have read by La Rosa and I know that i will like to read another book by her. As far as I can tell this does have a slight tie in to one of her other books For Butter or Worse (love the title) but not enough of one to say that I was lost in the characters in this book. This one can be read as a standalone but beyond that it can be enjoyed as a standalone as well.
What can I say about Plot Twist
other than it was a super cute read that for sure had a sweet and sexy side to
it. The sexy scenes are pretty hot at times and especially the first one it
seemed to come out of nowhere, but I was here for it. I like that it was
unexpected and in an unexpected location compared to other romance books I have
read (And I will be the first to admit it is not that many). I think many
people (myself included) would not really want to talk to all my exes, that I
had at different points in my life, so you have to applaud Sophie for doing it.
And let’s just get this out of the way, Sophie is Bisexual, so she has exes
with both women and men. I liked how La Rosa just made this feel normal and not
at all forced or weird in any way.
I like that both Sophie and Dash want to focus on themself, in order to get themselves better than just wanting to jump into or need a relationship to function. Though they are going through different aspects about themselves it is at the same time nice they can bond over this as well. This book does deal with the mental health of both individuals quite well and that not everything is okay all the time.
Now this book has ALOT of
Miscommunication throughout the book. I want to say that the book has the miscommunication
trope but it happens throughout the whole book as Dash and Sophie are trying to
figure out what they want in relationship and life, that it has just become
part of their story as a whole. Another trope is the friend's older brother
whom Sophie has had a crush on her entire life.
There is also a very toxic family
aspect in this book, and you cannot help but fell sorry for Dash any time that
he interacts with some member of his family and the lengths that they will go
to to help him stay in the media spotlight when he has no desire to do so.
One of my favourite aspects of
the book is how they bond over a squirrel (Richarad Gere), yep squirrel. It was
super cute and funny at the same time.
Plot Twist is all around cute
read, that I enjoyed. I look forward to reading more by La Rosa.
Enjoy!!!
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