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Sam Brandis was Tate Jones’s first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her first heartbreak. During a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in only the way that first loves do: sharing all of their hopes, dreams, and deepest secrets along the way. Sam was the first, and only, person that Tate—the long-lost daughter of one of the world’s biggest film stars—ever revealed her identity to. So when it became clear her trust was misplaced, her world shattered for good. Fourteen years later, Tate, now an up-and-coming actress, only thinks about her first love every once in a blue moon. When she steps onto the set of her first big break, he’s the last person she expects to see. Yet here Sam is, the same charming, confident man she knew, but even more alluring than she remembered. Forced to confront the man who betrayed her, Tate must ask herself if it’s possible to do the wrong thing for the right reason… and whether “once in a lifetime” can come around twice. With Christina Lauren’s signature “beautifully written and remarkably compelling” (Sarah J. Maas, New York Times bestselling author) prose and perfect for fans of Emily Giffin and Jennifer Weiner, Twice in a Blue Moon is an unforgettable and moving novel of young love and second chances. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners and the “delectable, moving” (Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite Half-Night Stand comes a modern love story about what happens when your first love reenters your life when you least expect it…
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0I absolutely loved this book. It warmed every bit of my heart.
0This was sort of a weird book for me?
The first ~50% was when the main characters were 18 and 21, which felt younger than I was expecting (I know that doesn't make any sense, just had been looking for an adult romance instead of YA/NewAdult.) So they meet, fall in love, this was done well and was interesting and I liked both our characters!
When Sam betrayed Tate, I kept waiting for her to find out it wasn't really him who had done it! I thought the time jump would be 8 years instead of 14. The 14 seemed too long. Too long for Tate to be nursing this pain and too long for her to have always been on 'pause' regarding her love life. So then it felt like they were too old?
I didn't understand Tate. She went from hating Sam and being so angry with him but still also wanting him--this was fine with me, and understandable. But then she finds out why he did it and she's pretty quick to forgive him... alright, I'm still on board mostly. And she has essentially never stopped loving him, sure. But she's mad at him and wants to hurt him and leave him wanting and she wants to rip his heart out and eat it and SHE JUMPS HIM. Okay, sure, passions, I'm follo--wait, now she loves him and all is well and they're going to be together? I had whiplash. I wanted there to be a little more conversation and seeing the adult Sam. It seemed like Tate could only see how he was the same as when he was 21, and not enough of how he was different, and I as the reader thought he seemed flatter at 35.
Also, it wrapped up way too quickly! It wasn't a surprise to me that Ian had "betrayed/sold out" Tate, but the fact that she read these emails from months/a year previous and suddenly was like 'I gotta get to Vermont to tell him I love him' so she does. The entire "plot twist" and resolution happened in the last 11% of the book... Happened too fast. And we never do see the resolution with her father. Or how a cross-country long distance relationship with a farmer and movie star could possibly work...
Nick was a wonderful character! Charlie too, though I wanted a little more of her too.
Just have loved other Christina Lauren books better, with better characterization and tighter plots/ more emotionally hard-hitting.
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