Friendship. Love. Sweetness. Heat. Well-developed MCs and supporting
characters. This one has it all right.
Dana Castilaw and Alex Soileau are childhood friends playing
together, making wishes in a faux well together. Two years older than Dana,
Alex left for college and then over years lost touch when the busy-ness of life
took them over. Twenty years thence, Dana is forced to return to her hometown
with her daughter due to pecuniary circumstances, to stay with her father, who
she had tried to escape in her young age. Back home, she learns that Alex has
also returned a few years back. The two of them reunite and immediately get
back into the easy rhythm of their friendship. However, all those years back,
Alex was just discovering she was gay and in love with her best friend. She
neither acted on that emotion then, nor has she ever been able to entirely get
over her first love. With time, Dana realises that her impassioned acts for and
with Alex in their teens were not entirely explicable to platonic friendship. She
begins to see her behaviour in new light and figures out that she may not be
all that straight, after all.
This book is such a great read. It is fun and funny. It
draws you in right away, from the first scene itself. Dana and Alex are great
characters, individually and together. Every single secondary character is
fully realised and all relationships well drawn.
Highly, highly recommended.
⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
