Perfect Timing
A Novel
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Right person, wrong time. Again. Tom and Jess’s
connection is magnetic, but can they ever get the timing right?
Jess is a comedian looking to make it, and Tom is in a band
hoping for its big break. When they wind up at the same Edinburgh festival,
they run into each other, literally. What begins as a chance encounter and a
scraped knee turns into something more during a magical night exploring the
city’s streets and best pubs. But things start to go awry, and when Jess hears
from Tom’s best friend that there’s a girlfriend in the picture, she bolts.
But this meet-cute just won’t quit. Through the bumpy
beginnings of their creative careers, Tom and Jess can’t stop thinking about
each other, whether it’s the right time or not. Their run-ins are disastrous,
and yet neither can write the other off and out of their life altogether. If
what’s meant to be will be, how many chances do you get?
A rom-com for true romantics, Perfect Timing is love
at first sight, disrupted—but never forgotten.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nicholls delivers an underwhelming will-they-won't-they in his sophomore romance (after Love, Unscripted). Tom Delany and Jess Henson first notice each other across a crowded coffee shop, but Jess's blind date sends Tom running before they can talk to each other. The next time they meet, Tom accidentally bowls Jess over, leaving her with a skinned knee. Despite this rocky start, the couple reconnect after a showcase in Edinburgh where Tom's band plays and Jess does stand-up. They hit it off and share a magical night—but this too turns out to be a false start when Tom's best friend mentions the long-distance girlfriend Tom invented as an excuse to visit his grandfather's grave without telling his friends where he's going. Before he can explain that he's not really in a relationship, Jess storms off. But over the next few years, the pair continue to bump into each other, and their chemistry is reaffirmed—if only it weren't always a case of wrong place, wrong time. There's the frustrating feeling here that Jess and Tom's problems could be easily resolved if they were allowed to have a real conversation. Meanwhile, Tom comes across as angry and pretentious, while Jess does most of the heavy lifting to make their relationship work. This is one to skip.
