Slow Dance: A Novel: A Reese's Book Club Pick, Perfect for Fans of Lost Love Stories and Second Chance Romance

“I love a marriage proposal that starts out ‘I can’t give you the life you deserve.’” Shiloh, Cary, and Mikey have been best friends since high school. But “Things change…whether or not you participate in the rituals of transition.” The three reunite at Mikey’s second wedding, Cary has joined the Navy and Shiloh is a divorced mother of two. “It occurs to me that I wasn’t really considering where you might be in life. When I…asked you to dance.” “Cary made Shiloh feel like she was the same person she’d always been…But he also made her feel like she could be someone new…With Cary, Shiloh wanted to push through her own discomfort. To get over herself. To look directly into the sun.” “If Shiloh had learned anything about herself, it was that she couldn’t hold onto people. She could only really deal with the people in front of her.” “All Shiloh had to do was keep her self-consciousness at bay. (Her self-consciousness and her bone-deep desolation.) (She could be desolate tomorrow. And the next day. She could table her ennui.)” Cary has seventeen days of leave. “I need to get my mom’s house on the market before I go. And I need to convince you to spend the rest of your life with me. Those are my two objectives. They’re both of highest priority…No more extensions. No more waiting. I want the rest of my life to be about building something with you…We’re engaged. Asterisk….The footnote now reads, ‘This is an active, developing scenario. Both parties are at the table working toward a mutually beneficial agreement.” “You don’t get to make new old friends.” Marriage isn’t easy with anyone–it may as well be ‘not easy’ with someone you love.” Bookended with two weddings and a rollercoaster of nostalgia and argument, “backwards and forwards. Coming and going” in between. Pour yourself a cup of lemongrass tea, cut a slice of hummingbird cake infused with pineapple, bananas, pecans, and cream cheese icing, and grab your dancing shoes. Rainbow Rowell’s Slow Dance is a disco constellation!

I hate read this book. Literally from page one, read it to get it over with. I was not invested in the plot, the characters, anything. Reading other's reviews I guess I am the weird one for not liking this book but it was a def no from me.