For much of the book she appears as 90% plot device, 10% person. Her name is Lola, and she’s a melting pot of Miley Cyrus, Keisha, and Brittany Spears. The imperfections of the story are related to a secondary but significant storyline involving a past one night stand of Jason’s. I didn’t know I was going to be so affected by their love story – I appreciated it from the beginning as well-developed, but I started really feeling it in the latter half. The HEA epilogue is also satisfying for both parties on a personal and a professional level, which makes for a gratifying conclusion.
He was my life” without irony or the insistence that happiness must come from within, and can be pried out of you with lots of expensive exercise classes and apps with daily affirmations). Sloan and Jason also have chemistry, and they operate from the principle that it’s worth figuring out how to make all other aspects of their lives accommodate their love (I was bowled over and had to relisten when Sloan says “Making him happy was the only way I could be happy. Jason and Sloan spend one on one time together (I share the exhaustion other AAR reviewers have expressed with huge casts of characters devoted to generating book series, and I can announce with delight that Sloan only has one friend, Kristin from The Friend Zone). The best love stories balance ‘show and tell’ – they show enough that when the characters tell the reader or each other they are in love, it’s convincing. And while this story has a musician hero, he is not a member of a boy band, and the music industry in this book is not used to add glamour but to add conflict it’s essentially the central antagonist of the book. Sloane’s grief is by no means the theme of the story, or the main cause of plot complications. If this synopsis makes you wonder if this story is a) a grief story or b) Harry Styles fanfic, the answer is c) neither. They start talking and texting, and, when he gets back, a relationship. She finds out the owner is Jason, a musician currently out of town for work. One day, she’s in her car when a dog jumps in through her sunroof. An artist, she now paints “astronaut cats” to pay the bills she has for the roof over her head and the car in her garage – she doesn’t do much else requiring funds. Sloan Monroe is entering her third year of unmitigated grief due to the loss of her fiancé in a tragic accident. The audiobook, despite its inconsistency, is still a worthwhile listening experience due to the quality of the tale being told. The highest of its peaks is undoubtedly the love story, and that peak rises so high above not only the story’s valleys, but all the neighboring peaks of the other romances I’ve reviewed lately, that it has earned my most passionate recommendation. Narrated by Zachary Webber and Erin MallonĪbby Jimenez’s The Happy Ever After Playlist, both as a story and audiobook, is full of peaks and valleys.
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