boxofdelights

I read this for book group, and I shouldn't have. I don't want to read fiction about the pandemic that we are still in, especially not where the pandemic is used as the engine of a romance novel.

The pandemic traps successful career-minded New Yorker Diana O'Toole in a tropical island vacation, away from her #relationshipgoals rich white handsome kind doctor boyfriend, who loves her completely, whose life plan matches hers like left and right hands, and who is "steady. Like...white noise."

But twist! It's all a dream. Actually she has covid and is hallucinating all of this. She recovers, and her hallucination vacation makes her see that she must change her life.

But twist! After she breaks up with the boyfriend who is perfect, but not for her, and goes back to school to become an art therapist, she takes the trip that she hallucinated taking, and meets the guy she hallucinated falling in love with!

Also, using fake Yoko Ono to establish just how brilliant Diana's pre-pandemic prospects were is gross.