Perfect people falling in love
4 stars
Wil & Katie are high school friends who haven't talked for 13-ish years because Katie got discovered by Hollywood the summer right after high school. They finally reconnect and sparks immediately fly. But can they overcome a) the residual pain from a decade-long disconnect and b) the publicity of a relationship where one of them is a Hollywood A-lister and one is not?
On the one hand, I really enjoyed a story where literally everyone is super intelligent & uses their words. This is not a story where the conflict is based on people doing something stupid and/or miscommunication that they are afraid to say what they mean to other people. The stakes are real though. Wil is finally looking to move on from a mental space triggered by her father's death; she is considering law school that she put off when her dad was dying. Katie is looking to …
Wil & Katie are high school friends who haven't talked for 13-ish years because Katie got discovered by Hollywood the summer right after high school. They finally reconnect and sparks immediately fly. But can they overcome a) the residual pain from a decade-long disconnect and b) the publicity of a relationship where one of them is a Hollywood A-lister and one is not?
On the one hand, I really enjoyed a story where literally everyone is super intelligent & uses their words. This is not a story where the conflict is based on people doing something stupid and/or miscommunication that they are afraid to say what they mean to other people. The stakes are real though. Wil is finally looking to move on from a mental space triggered by her father's death; she is considering law school that she put off when her dad was dying. Katie is looking to start a production company after a decade of acting accolades, and getting derailed by a relationship with someone outside Hollywood.
However, I can't give this my top rating for a couple of reasons. Wil & Katie and the story around them are too perfect. Everyone including the background characters has perfect motives. Everyone (except Katie's ex) is perfectly accepting of everyone else. And the manner of the ending feels like everyone's wish fulfillment on what happens to shitty exes. At least what I would want to happen to my famous ex who does shitty things. And secondly, at times the pacing is really slow because the protagonists talk through everything first. At times I wanted to yell at the characters, GET ON WITH THE BANGING YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT IT ENOUGH.
4 stars still. Very enjoyable.