The Layover
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The Unhoneymooners meets The Hating Game in this breezy debut romantic comedy about life--and love--30,000 feet above the ground. After ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hang up her wings and finally put down roots. She's got one trip left before she bids her old life farewell, and she plans to enjoy every second of it. But then she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone--the absurdly gorgeous, ridiculously cocky man she's held a secret grudge against for years--is on her flight. And he has the nerve to flirt with her, as if he doesn't remember the role he played in the most humiliating night of her life. Good thing she never has to see him again after they land.... But when their plane encounters mechanical problems, what should have been a quick stop at the Belize airport suddenly becomes a weekend layover. Getting stuck on a three-hour flight with her nemesis was bad enough. Being stranded with him at a luxury resort in paradise? Even with the sultry breeze and white sand to distract her, it will take all the rum punch in the country to drown out his larger-than-life presence. Yet the more time Ava spends with him under the hot Caribbean sun, the more she begins to second-guess everything she thought she knew about him...and everything she thought she wanted from her life. And all too soon, she might have to choose between keeping her feet on the ground and her head in the clouds....
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“... who wants to be reachable if you've managed to escape to a place far enough away to be un-reachable? That's half the magic of exploring other countries. Not being uncontactable,
but being in a different world, untethered and free.”
I didn't doubt that I would like this book, just because it's about travelling and flying, it's just the kind of book I knew I would enjoy.
This is an enemy to lovers trope. I haven't read a book like this for the longest time. I loved their banter in the beginning. It's not impossibly mean, just cute mean.
I loved the characters in this book! Gen, Pilot Paul, Eddie, Celeste, Ava, Jack and even Captain Ballinger.
When they got stuck it Belize, that's when the magic happened. I got all the feels. I enjoyed that no cheating was involved in the story. Just plain old, romance.
This was the perfect companion on our holiday to Maldives! It did take me 5 days to finish it, not because it's a horrible book, just because I got too distracted with the alcohol and the beach.
3.5 stars for this sweet, albeit predictable, romance set in a week and almost in the air. There was a slight attempt at depth translated into Ava's past and a hiccup so brief in Jake's pursuit that it was almost unnecessary, and all in all, it's a great Summer book to be read with a good drink (the ones with little umbrellas) and sea breeze.
