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Books: Get Lost With You
Today we are talking about Get Lost With You by Sophie Sullivan. When they grew up, Levi and Jilly always harbored crushes on each other but never acted on them. Years later, when Levi returns to their shared hometown where Jilly is already living with her young daughter, he is determined to change that. Although Jilly clearly still has feelings for him, she worries a lot about how things can go wrong.
This book starts out annoyingly slowly and cerebrallly. Levi and Jilly keep brooding on their feelings for each other while not acting on them. When they finally get together, they are over-the-top cute which may be equally annoying for some people while others who can't get enough romance no matter how over the top may swoon over it.
Then, of course, the inevitable third-act conflict happens. Although it is refreshing that it is not over a misunderstanding as too often happens in these types of books, it is still just as exasperating. It may even be more so because it's really over nothing except Jilly getting in her own head and worrying too much about things she can't control.
Movies: Dating My Past
Today we are talking about Dating My Past. This movie is infuriating in so many ways. It is basically about a woman torn between two men, but one is a controlling jerk and the other seems too good to be true. Even when it is revealed that, in fact, the second guy was hiding something from her, it still doesn't seem like much of a conflict because what he was keeping from her still doesn't seem nearly as bad as being a controlling jerk.
As if that weren't enough the whole story is told in flashback as she seems to be some kind of marriage counselor/therapist sharing her own story with her clients as a cautionary tale. Aside from the fact that her story doesn't appear to relate to their issues, it seems a questionable way, at best, and an unethical way at worst, to do her job.
Dating My Past is available on Video on Demand starting today.
And that's our view. Tune in tomorrow for Where-To-Go Wednesday.
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