Five Star Stranger by Kat Tang
I won this from a goodreads giveaway. I can't stop thinking about this book, but I don't think I actually liked it. It was well written, but not what I was expecting, and not one of my normal genres. I thought this was going to be a romcom. It was not. We don't even know the main character's name! He is a friend/lover/partner for hire. He takes on different roles depending on what you want/need him to be for a set amount of time. He has a long term gig as Dad to Lily and husband to Mari. But that falls apart in pretty spectacular fashion causing him to quit his job and move to LA, where he grew up. We get no closure on him. He hooks up with a woman who knew his mom, but he doesn't tell her that she killed herself years ago. Instead, when she asks him if he ever read her play he says no, but something else she said makes it seem like she thinks he did and we never find out what she wrote (we can assume it was an unflattering view of her life as a mother). And we have no idea what he does for work once he moves back to LA. We don't know if he ever mails Lily the cartography kit and letter. We don't know if Mari's new relationship works out. We have no closure. There were too many unanswered questions in this. I do not think I will be reading anymore from this author, not because they are a bad author but because this book was not enjoyable for me.
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