The Lovers
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4.5 • 8 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A second chance at love is in the cards for two women working a stylish California wedding in this charming debut romance.
If Kit Larson believes one thing, it’s that the cards never lie. She’s seen it proven time and time again as a tarot reader and mystic influencer. But unfortunately the cards didn’t warn her about her most recent breakup or her parents’ divorce, so when Kit is offered a gig at another influencer’s boho-chic Joshua Tree wedding she accepts for the distraction. And distract it does when she finds out her high school crush, Julia, is the wedding planner.
Julia Kelley is her agency’s most sought-after wedding planner, and for a good reason—she's a perfectionist. Control means never showing others the vulnerable, blobby mess she really is deep down inside. Having an ex-girlfriend in the bridal party is a problem, sure, but reconnecting with the beautiful tarot reader who broke her heart as a teenager is so much worse.
Kit’s cards once told her that she and Julia were Twin Flames, two halves of the same soul. With wedding events pushing them together, their spark reignites . . . and so does a chance at being lovers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Faubion's funny if shallow debut comes across like a sitcom episode, delivering a few good laughs but nothing that will linger long in readers' minds. The protagonists are tarot reader Kit "Mystic Maven" Larson and event planner Julia Kelley, both terminally online 20-somethings working on the same destination wedding in Joshua Tree National Park. Of the two, Julia's got it worse. Not only is Kit the girl who broke her heart in high school, but she has another ex among the bridesmaids, who's circling for a second bite. Despite the heroines being characterized very differently—woo-woo aesthete versus type-A entrepreneur—Kit and Julia both narrate in voices that are essentially identical, particularly in their preoccupation with 1990s cultural references older than they are. This sameness, combined with Kit's relentless commitment to the bit of wanting to be a rom-com ingenue, render it difficult to accept the artifice and engage with the romance on a deeper level. Still, readers in the mood for a quirky bit of fluff will find this entertaining enough.
