11/19/2022 0 Comments The layover rating![]() ![]() The crux of her emotional baggage-that she distrusts due to the romantic betrayals she’s suffered in the past-confuses this plot detail. This is bound to become a problem for readers who dislike emotional cheating, or even the mere suggestion of it, and Ava remains engaged to her boyfriend of nine months up until around the halfway mark of the layover, well into her romantic development with the real love interest of the novel. What the summary fails to announce-for reasons unknown, considering this plot point is in no way a spoiler and becomes immediately obvious one page into the book-is that Ava is engaged to be married to a lawyer named Alexander while all of this is happening, a fact for which no one but her mother knows. Yes, Ava Greene is working her last trip as a flight attendant after a decade with her airline, and yes, she harbors a deep-seated resentment for her coworker Jack sSone-based entirely on assumptions and hearsay-who just so happens to be scheduled for her final flight before hanging up the ascot. ![]() The Layover by Lacie Waldon, while beachy, does not read exactly as advertised. And all too soon, she might have to choose between keeping her feet on the ground and her head in the clouds… Yet the more time Ava spends with him under the hot Caribbean sun, the more she begins to second-guess everything she thought she knew about him…and everything she thought she wanted from her life. Being stranded with him at a luxury resort in paradise? Even with the sultry breeze and white sand to distract her, it will take all the rum punch in the country to drown out his larger-than-life presence. Getting stuck on a three-hour flight with her nemesis was bad enough. Good thing she never has to see him again after they land….īut when their plane encounters mechanical problems, what should have been a quick stop at the Belize airport suddenly becomes a weekend layover. And he has the nerve to flirt with her, as if he doesn’t remember the role he played in the most humiliating night of her life. But then she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone–the absurdly gorgeous, ridiculously cocky man she’s held a secret grudge against for years–is on her flight. ![]() She’s got one trip left before she bids her old life farewell, and she plans to enjoy every second of it. Putnam’s Sons (June 15, 2021)Īfter ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hang up her wings and finally put down roots. ![]()
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