Its my turn today on the book tour for The Meeting Point by Olivia Lara organized by TheWriteReads.
Author
Olivia Lara
Publisher
Aria Fiction
Genre
Romantic Comedy
Number of Pages
368
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Summary
Maya adores writing stories, watching people, and imagining a magical story is what she loves to do. But her own story is far from romantic. Because she needs to earn money before publishing her stories she works as a journalist. But the gigs are unsatisfying. And to give her now boring relationship with her boyfriend a revival push, she decides to give him a surprise by landing unexpectedly in California, on her birthday.
But as if destiny had other plans for Maya, she learns about her boyfriend’s cheating ways through a Lyft driver(she calls him Max) in whose car David forgot his phone. Angry, disappointed, and with nothing to do but go back by the next flight which is 24 hours away she begins a conversation with the cab driver over text. And in 24 hours they fall in love with each other, without having seen each other.
Is this true love or a passing fancy? Will Maya have the courage to her tell her boyfriend what she wants?
My review
After a very long time, I read a book that kept me up all night. The will she won’t she dilemma just had me turning page after page and I was lost in Carmel by the sea.
The mystery element about who the driver might turn out to be and who will Maya choose kept the story extremely interesting. The characters were all super cute and delivered without the need for any villainy. Short chapters kept the pace of the novel pretty great. I just breezed the 80 chapters.
Although falling in love with a stranger without ever having met him and only in 24 hours seems a little over the top, but so what? That’s what books are meant for right? To imagine the unimagined, to believe the unbelievable.
I’ve decided. Once in a while, I’m going to seek out Rom-Coms just to remind myself of the fun and love, and sweetness still possible in this world.
Come on this 5* journey to love, laughter and back again, perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane, Josie Silver and Sally Thorne.
Olivia Lara
As a child, Olivia not-so-quietly ‘observed’ (AKA bothered with countless questions) her grandfather — who worked for the biggest publishing house in Romania — edit hundreds of books. And when he wasn’t editing, he read. Everything, all the time. Just like her father, who wrote short sci-fi stories, and was set on building the largest library she’d ever seen and her mother who’s never found without a book…wherever she goes. Her love for words came naturally, and after studying marketing, communications & photography, Olivia worked as a journalist for a newspaper and news television network in Romania.
An unapologetic citizen of the world, she spent a few years in Greece, Sweden, France, before settling in sunny California with her photographer husband and young daughter, where she works in marketing and writes. Oh, and let's not forget the ever-growing menagerie that completes the family: Pumpkin, the Maine Coon mix, three black cats and a siamese kitten.
When she's not writing or thinking about writing, she reads (across genres), watches old movies and collects vintage books, vinyl records, and eerie paintings. She loves traveling (and can’t wait until she can do it again, safely), swimming, biking, hiking and of course, photography.
SOMEDAY IN PARIS, her debut, published by Aria Fiction/Head of Zeus in May 2020 became a B&N, Apple, Kobo and Amazon Top 100 Bestseller and was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel Awards 2021. Her second novel, THE MEETING POINT, a contemporary romcom set in Northern California, is set to be published as an e-book on September 2, 2021 and in paperback in December 2021 in the UK and March, 2022 in the US.
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