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Wren Wheeler had an eventful summer: the world almost ended thanks to a comet, but the crisis was averted. Then she fell in love with (and maybe actually married) the prince of England. And now Theo has just been made king.
Since they parted, they haven’t spoken. But Wren still has feelings for the boy she can’t possibly be with. Plus, he and his family have the dog they rescued while on their mad dash for transportation during that fateful week. Wren would like to have Comet back, thank you very much.
When she is about to start her first semester of college and is trying to figure out what she is going to study and do with her life, Wren sees on the news that Theo and two of his sisters are in Canada — with Comet. She throws together a plan to go see them and get the dog. Because of course it’s only about the dog.
She ends up seeing and talking to Theo, then getting in a paparazzi car chase, staying in a hotel with him, and flying back to England with him. But the plane crashes and all the people on it (Theo, a sister and brother, Wren, her sister, her best friend, a bodyguard, and the pilot) are stranded on a deserted island.
This gives Theo and Wren time to figure out where they stand with each other and if they could possibly have a future together.
I managed to stick it out for the whole book, but I really did want to can it when I saw all the crazy improbable things happening. The author has her characters talk about this, but still…. I could not get past my incredulity to enjoy the story at all. Most of the plot points that move the story onward are so improbable they’re laughable. I wrote in my review of the first book that the premise was pretty outlandish, but the story was fun once I got past that. Here, it’s all outlandish all the time. (I won’t write about these issues and spoil them.) Argh. I should have just imagined a happy ending for them myself instead of reading this.
Rated: High. Profanity includes 10 uses of strong language, 25 instances of moderate profanity, 25 uses of mild language, about 40 uses of British profanity, and a couple of instances of the name of Deity in vain. There’s some kissing and completely “off-screen”/“closed-door” sex. Violence includes danger on an island where characters sustain various injuries.
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