But what made this book rise above other romances I’ve read this year was the non-romance writing. Jamie and Laurie make a lovely couple and McFarlane does a great job with the slow burn. And to make matters worse, he waited until she was thirty six to leave her, so she doesn’t have that much time to find another partner to have kids with–something she’s always known she’s wanted. In an incredibly short amount of time, Laurie is seeing her partner of eighteen years doing all the things she was expecting to do with him–but with another woman. Instead, she is informed that Dan and his new girlfriend are expecting a baby. Laurie is pretty sure that the time has come for Dan to grovel his way back into her life. One day, Dan asks to come over after work to talk to her. Laurie still thinks that Dan will come to his senses and find his way back to her. He didn’t physically cheat on Laurie because he fancied himself a good guy, but he left Laurie for this other woman. Dan had met someone, another lawyer in court, and they’d gotten very close. ***SPOILERS*** What makes Laurie’s situation even more gut wrenching is that she discovers that there is another woman. Laurie, despite her best friend’s very sage advice, decides to give it a shot. And he can have a stable relationship with a woman that the partners already admire. He said that Laurie can use him to make Dan crazy jealous and come crawling back to her. Jamie comes up with the crazy idea that they pretend to date. They go for drinks after and end up talking. One evening, Jamie and Laurie get trapped in an elevator at the end of the work day. They’d prefer someone with a stable partner. However, the current partners are pretty conservative and they don’t appreciate Jamie’s reputation for being a womanizing singleton. He has high expectations and would like to make partner. Jamie Carter is an up-and-coming attorney who also works at Salter and Rowson. And what makes it worse is that Laurie has to see Dan at work while trying to avoid being the subject of the ever present gossip mill. She could not even begin to conceive of her life without him. But then Dan unexpectedly blindsides her with the fact that he’s not happy and he wants to break up with her. She expects that they will have children and possibly get married soon, but it was never something that she was itching to rush into. They are both lawyers at a busy law firm, Salter and Rowson. Laurie Watkinson has been with her partner Dan for half of her life–since she was eighteen years old. This is definitely my favorite romance of the year, and it was even more enjoyable for me because I had no expectations coming into it. Since we are both lawyers that are getting older every day, she enjoyed it and she thought I would as well.
She said that it was a good, fun romance that involved lawyers in their thirties.
My friend recommended If I Never Met You (2020) by Mhairi McFarlane.
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