When Addie and her sister Deb travel to their friend's wedding in Scotland, they're excited for a girly road trip. But things all go askew, when they another car rear ends them, and their road trip is crashed by Marcus and Dylan - who happens to be Addie's ex. As feelings and tempers fly, Addie and Dylan start to figure out they may not be really over each other.

This book was well paced and had some enjoyable writing - including some witty, easy flowing dialogue and some comedic moments that genuinely had me laughing out loud. There are loads of elements in this book and in Beth O'Leary's writing in general that I do really like, and feel like I should love but I never seem to love her stories as much as others do and this one overall, was disappointing for me.

As nice as the writing was, the storyline of the road trip started to bore me quite quickly and I think a lot of this centred on Addie and Dylan as a couple, and the fact I just didn't really care about them and I actually I kind of wanted them to stay apart from each other rather than get back together. I appreciated the effort that Beth O'Leary put into this book to shine a light on toxic relationships - that occur in your family as well as with friends, and how easy it is to be trapped and almost blind to these kind of relationships and treatment until it's too late. There was also a fantastic chapter in this around consent involving an attempted sexual assault and I really like how the author phrased it that consent isn't something that just stops mattering at some point during sexual interaction, it moves along and can be taken away at any point and that has to be respected and listened to.

But back to Addie and Dylan, I just didn't like them. I liked Deb the best, and weirdly Rodney but I feel like Deb could have had so much to her, and I would have liked to know more about her mind worked other than her deciding to have a baby via sperm donor and hook up with random truck drivers. I also thought the breastfeeding lark with Deb was overdone - 100% understand a woman needs to breastfeed but when you're away from a baby for a whole weekend, surely you'd pump and dump instead of attempting to store breast milk in a hot car?

Dylan was so off-putting for me, and I thought he was honestly a waste of time when it came to Addie's time and energy. I appreciate there was some conversation near the end how he was suffering from depression and was taking meds and going to therapy but this felt very rushed and thrown in at the very end (literally a couple of sentences). It didn't change the fact that for the majority of the book Dylan had been this wet blanket who moped around on his father's money - a father whom he hated but was still happy taking handouts from. And Marcus was just the wooorsssst. I find it hard to believe anyone would put up with Marcus's behaviour - especially towards a significant other and he had the worst excuse, not that there would have been a good excuse.

So yeah, this story didn't so it for me but I still enjoy Beth's writing as a whole and I really like her sense of humour that often comes out in her books too.