There was a lot of emotional stuff in this book. Macy and Elliot pretty much fell for each other at first sight, when Macy caught Elliot trespassing in the closet when she was touring her new summer cabin. He lived next door to the cabin, and through their shared love of reading, and Elliot refusing to dance around the topic of Macy’s mom’s death, they became best friends. In time they became everything to each other. The book bounces back and forth from then to eleven years later, when they haven’t spoken in over a decade.
They bump into each other at a coffee shop, and it unbalances Macy’s safe life. She’s engaged but not in love. Elliot dumps his girlfriend right away. As for why they became estranged, it’s definitely drawn out in the book for dramatic effect. Elliot is at a party, drunk, and he calls Macy, professing his love and desire to get married. She goes to him and finds him naked with an ex-girlfriend. She leaves in an emotional heap, and her father comes to get her. On the way home, they get in a car accident and he dies, so she lumps the whole cheating and death together and disengages. His cheating isn’t what it seems. The book could have been fifty pages if everyone could just communicate, but it was still an enjoyable, emotional read. (8)
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