Back After This

Back After This by Linda Holmes

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Cecily Foster makes podcasts, working for a place called Palmetto Media. Years earlier, she started a podcast with her ex, Justin, who took the idea they developed together and made it his own without much mention of her…

No matter…she continued on, single, happily maybe…

And then her boss ropes her into a new idea for a podcast about her personal life…where she will solicit the help of a life coach named Eliza Cassidy…who believes that she can help Cecily by flooding the market…by throwing her into the deep end of the dating pool.

She will go on 20 dates with 20 different men…
And make a 12-episode podcast called 20 Dates.
With second dates with the person she likes…
With the finale being with the one that she picks…

It is a terrible idea, she thinks…but she is single…she is a team player…and the company needs this…
But then she meets guy, (Will) who is chasing an adorable dog…who brings them together for the meet-cute. Will works as a waiter, but he is also a photographer. He is probably so bad for her. Eliza would never pick a guy like that for her 20 dates program, no matter how many sparks there are between them.

And…. well…it’s a cheeky rom-com. I mostly breezed through this. There are some good points about the self-help culture and online fame, but overall it’s not a deep dive into anything, just a smart kind of funny book that I mostly enjoyed.





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