Tag: ghosts

Fiction
My Rating: 🍪🍪.5

Nina is in her thirties, a successful cookbook writer living alone, and single. Her closest friends are settling down, her mom has decided to rebrand herself, and her father has dementia. Nina downloads a dating app and soon meets Max. They quickly become serious until one day, after they’ve confessed their love, he ghosts her.

This story paints one women’s experience being single in her thirties and how her romantic life impacts her actions, emotions, and self-perception. It’s a story of getting older and watching things change around you that you thought never would and that you want to desperately to cling to.

I appreciated the relationship between Nina and her parents and the difficulties they were dealing with at this new chapter in her life. I wish that had been the main focus of this book. The romance was rushed and lacked substance, as did Nina’s character in general. We were told she was a successful author etc. but never got any detail or saw any of it in practice.

There did not seem to be a lot of actual plot in this book, but there were a lot of random subplots like Nina’s loud neighbor (mentioned 5 too many times) and debate over where her middle name came from (mentioned 12 too many times).

There was a lot of promise to a story centered around the various types of ‘ghosting’ many women face in their thirties, but ultimately none of them were focused on enough.

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