This one is a shame. The plot sounded great. A woman has a meet cute with a guy in a coffee shop. They end up agreeing to meet in 10 years. And we check in with her every year on the same day that she met her mysterious man. But the book just has too much going on that you can’t get a handle on things. I honestly think that because we have just a year to catch up with whatever is going on with Olivia, it doesn’t get you time to settle on things. Also some of the chapters were fairly short and some went on way too long. I also though that Olivia and Fiona’s relationship was terrible. Also Olivia is 30 at the start of this tale and acts like someone decades younger. That was a hard part for me to get past after a while. Most of the issues she had were her own doing and I got tired of reading about them.
“Plot Twist” follows 30 year old Olivia Ross who is at a local coffee shop in Los Angles working on her screenplay. Olivia works for a greeting card company, but her dream is to be a writer. When a cute guy with an accent she can’t place asks to sit with her, Olivia gets annoyed. She thinks he is hitting on her. But when the guy ends up saving her from a dude that won’t take not interested as a final answer, she ends up having a “meet cute” with him. They exchange no names, but agree to meet again in 10 years at the coffee shop to see where they are now with their lives and make a film together.
The book stars on February 4, 2003 and we then follow Olivia for 10 years.
I have to say this, Olivia is a drip. She has a nice boyfriend named Liam that she calls Clark Kent and mentions how boring he is, and her best friend also dogs him out too. I wanted to yell at them both that any woman that ignores Clark Kent is insane! And that’s just the beginning of the things that will irk you about Olivia. I know that because of how Turner structured this, you don’t get to spend a lot of time with her since you are jumping ahead a year as you go. But Olivia was a mess. The way the book just skips over how unfair she’s being about a lot of things along with her best friend made me tired. And I was not rooting for her at all. As I said above, we follow her from 30 to 40 and she has the emotional maturity of a 16 year old girl through most of this.
The writing was so-so. It just felt like name-dropping after a while. Fiona is just so fabulous she’s working with Shonda Rhimes at some point. This is after she’s worked with Vera Wang.
The flow wasn’t great. I loved the idea about skipping ahead every year, but it just did not work after a while. We got too many info dumps on us about big things that you don’t get a chance to adjust to.
The ending was a Happily Ever After (HEA), but I honestly thought the male hero in this one deserved better.