Rachel is a university student who works at a bookstore while studying in Cork, Ireland. At the bookstore she meets James, who instantly becomes her best friend and the platonic love of her life. They decide to become roommates, setting their lives on a course that will change them forever. Rachel decides that she is in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne. She and James come up with a plan to seduce him that involves throwing a book release party at their bookstore, but her plan is thrown out the window when she catches James and Dr. Byrne kissing. Thus begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of Rachel, James, and Dr. Byrne forever. 

This book is a coming of age story filled with lots of chaos and drama. The plot was interesting and I was engaged throughout, wanting to see how all the drama and secrets would unfold. Throughout the whole novel I couldn’t decide if I liked any of the characters; they all seemed superficial, selfish, and naive. It was hard to be sympathetic to Rachel at times. Rachel and James’s codependency was so crippling to both of them and there wasn’t really any recognition or rectification of that fact. The book is described as funny and while there were a couple of things I chuckled at I wouldn’t call it humor. The writing was great and the audiobook performance felt very authentic, as it was performed by an Irish narrator. I’m not sure this book lived up to the hype for me but it was definitely entertaining!