by Suzanne Rindell
First sentence: “When her eyes catch on the little clock on the far wall beyond her desk, she realizes it’s past noon.”
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Review copy provided by the publisher.
Content: There is some swearing, including a couple of instances of the f-bomb, as well as some off-page sex. It’s in the Romance section of the bookstore.

Sawyer is a publishing assistant in New York, engaged to Charles who is an associate at a high-powered law firm, and she is pretty sure her life is set. Then, during the summer of 1999, Charles is gone a lot due to a case and gets closer to his co-worker, Kendra, and Sawyer is left alone to fend for herself on the long, boring summer Fridays. She decides on a whim to play tourist in this city she now calls home, and joining her is Kendra’s boyfriend, Nick. Soon a friendship blossoms between the two of them… and maybe something more.

First my quibble: the marketing says its “You’ve Got Mail for a new generation”, and I’m sorry, but that shows a lack of knowledge of what You’ve Got Mail is. This is not that. It is sweet and charming, and not really a romance in the traditional romance sense. It is a love story, and a good one at that, and it’s a good story about second chances and finding someone who fits the life you want instead of you fitting into the life that others think should have. I loved the interactions between Nick and Sawyer (though I wasn’t really sold that he was in love with her when he said he was, but that’s probably just me) and I loved their summer Friday activities. You can tell that Rindell loves the city and wants to share that love.

it’s a good book, overall, even if it’s not really what I expected going into it. I enjoyed it quite a bit.