As a very popular title in the book world, I spontaneously borrowed The Ex Talk when it became available. My main issue with this story is that I was never sold on the relationship between the two main characters. When reading romance novels, I want to root for the two people to get their happily ever after, but in this book, I didn't really care one way or another. A less significant issue I had with The Ex Talk was the ceaseless reminder of the age difference between the love interests. The difference was of only five or six years and they are both adults in the story, so I found the constant discussion to be unnecessary. I don't think I would go out of my way to recommend this title to other readers.