The No-Show

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Throughout the book you get to know the three leading ladies Siobhan, Miranda and Jane, I really enjoy a book from the different characters’ perspectives, I find it incredibly interesting as it really speeds up the pace of the book for me. The three romances are on different timelines (the Valentine’s Day no-shows all occur in different years – 2015, 2018 and 2019, IIRC), though the misdirection really tries to make the reader believe that they are simultaneous. My default position with O’Leary is to check with trusted others that it is actually a romance before reading or listening.

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The No-Show starts with Siobhan, Miranda, and Jane being stood up on Valentine’s Day for breakfast, lunch, or dinner respectively.I’m trying to think what separates The Flatshare from the subsequent books and I can’t quite put my finger on it. SusanS: I think for me it goes back to the central conceit just not working great for me, The “manipulative deception” you reference was central to the “twist”, but the instances of what I saw as misdirection – the restaurant bill that Miranda finds, for one – felt heavy-handed and yeah, a little dishonest. Miranda, Siobhan and Jane’s family and colleagues were comical and opinionated, but with four main characters to keep up with, the others faded into the background. O.O I’ve only ever read two books in which that happened; in one of them it was an inevitable thing, the whole book was about that, so getting to that point wasn’t a shock. That one felt like chick lit , which I generally dislike and have to be in a very particular mood to read.

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In that time she's read a lot of good romances, a few great ones, and, unfortunately, a whole lot of dreck.I was totally enthralled by each women’s experiences and relationships with Joseph, and somehow never felt any bad blood towards him despite his mysteriousness and at times emotional unavailability.