The Book:
This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens, 2020
The Characters:
Minnie Cooper, Quinn Hamilton
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The Plot (from Goodreads):
Minnie Cooper knows two things with certainty: that her New Year’s birthday is unlucky, and that it’s all because of Quinn Hamilton, a man she’s never met. Their mothers gave birth to them at the same hospital just after midnight on New Year’s Day, but Quinn was given the cash prize for being the first baby born in London in 1990–and the name Minnie was meant to have, as well. With luck like that, it’s no wonder each of her birthdays has been more of a disaster than the one before.
When Minnie unexpectedly runs into Quinn at a New Year’s party on their mutual thirtieth birthday, she sees only more evidence that fortune has continued to favor him. The gorgeous, charming business owner truly seems to have it all–while Minnie’s on the brink of losing her pie-making company and her home. But if Quinn and Minnie are from different worlds, why do they keep bumping into each other? And why is it that each fraught encounter leaves them both wanting more?
The Review:
I enjoyed this cute, quirky story. I love the concept of two people born minutes apart whose paths repeatedly cross even though they don’t know it. My favorite parts were the flashbacks to other parts of Minnie and Quinn’s lives where their stories intertwined and they didn’t know it.
The characters are quirky and fun. Not much stood out to me about them either way, but they definitely weren’t boring cookie-cutter characters.
I obviously didn’t read this at the holidays. Although it would be a good book to read at New Year’s Eve, it’s definitely not necessary.
The ending wasn’t overly sappy, which is another thing I always appreciate. All too often it’s extremely easy to guess the end of a rom-com, so I appreciated that this one had more to it than meet cute, fall in love, conflict, resolution, happily ever after.
I would definitely recommend this book for a quick, light-hearted romance read.
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