It was OK.

But I found the whole one day framing to be a little stupid since it was NOT actually the one day each year on which they saw each other or anything. Seemed a pretty arbitrary frame that falls apart as the novel moves on and the reader might want to hear about some other days as well. [Also seems like a blatant “hey When Harry Met Sally fans, come read this” advert but maybe that’s just me.] I mean when a chapter starts with something “having seen each other on and off for months now”, it renders that fact that we’re again focused on just this one day a little meaningless.

There were things I liked about it and I certainly agree with Emma that Ian was not the man for her…but is Dex really? The author maybe goes a little too far in giving you reasons to detest him and not enough instances of even halfway decentness for you to really be willing to fall for him yourself or put up with Emma’s love for him never going away.

Maybe on one of those OTHER days of the year, he did some stuff to redeem himself but we will never know.