IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM is set in the town/city of Bath, England. The characters, lead pair Anna and Will are journalists at the local print magazine Bath Living. Anna covers Art, Culture & Living while Will a fairly new recruit of 6 months as compared to years of Anna, covers the local food scene.
Bath Living is one of the older remaining magazines and with a corporate buyout faces coming into the 21st century or extinction. With jobs and beliefs on the line, it is Anna who is forced to catch up with the younger, more socially adept Will and his in touch with the time's lookout. Anna and Will have always locked heads and had heated exchanges of words, more so as Will's suggestions for the magazine mean Anna working with Will or quitting. Will they be at loggerheads until one of them quits or be lost at the end of the day?
In the new demand of the day, Will and Anna have to collaborate on a dating column with their unique experiences catering to a new demographic for the magazine. While dating different people and comparing notes, Anna and Will give in to their attraction for each other, which is surprising to Anna herself.
While it's not exactly hate to love or enemies to lovers, this story is somewhere in the middle. It is a pattern of hot/cold, lust/annoyance all in the same conversation. This back-and-forth happening on Anna's end was a bit off-putting for me. One moment she was ready to quit, annoyed at Will and almost biting his head off, and in the next breath wants to be all over him.
It is a clash of stubbornness and attraction on Anna's end, while for Will it is a case of school-ground attraction. He constantly irritates Anna because he likes her. There's a lot of back and forth between Anna and Will as they work hard to keep their jobs. This chaos and drama between the two is at times enjoyable but mostly overwhelming and feels overdone.
I'd say that if you are reading this author for the first time, like me, it's not the right choice to read from her work. Her fans would love this chaotic, hot/cold, slow-burn love story from their favorite author. If you are looking for a single mom love story, loads of dating shenanigans, and a reverse age gap that starts with attraction rather than friendship to love, pick up a copy and join Anna on her dating adventures.
From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year, a hilarious love story about a disillusioned divorcée who agrees to let her children play matchmaker.
Columnist Anna Appleby has left her love life behind after a painful divorce. Who needs a man when she has two kids, a cat, and uncontested control of the TV remote? Besides, she’d rather be single than subject herself to the hell of online dating. But her office rival is vying for her column, and no column means no stable source of income. So, in a desperate attempt to keep her job, Anna finds herself pitching a unique angle: seven dates, all found offline, chosen by her children.
From awkward encounters to unexpected connections, Anna gamely begins to put herself out there, asking out waiters, the mailman, even her celebrity crush. But when a romantic connection appears where she least expected it, will she be brave enough to take another chance on love?
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