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I loved the tension between the characters and the setting. Ultimately it was a sweet story, a good romance. Gen was probably my favourite of all of them. She is such a strong character, it is hard to believe that she would let someone treat her like crap. I just didn’t like this one part of her story and character. However, if you ignore this part and go with the story and pretend that she is the victim in all of this it is quite an enjoyable read. It feels like her fiance was written as a jerk just to excuse her falling for another man. But she is engaged to be married and it borders so close to cheating that it might as well be cheating. It’s not really a spoiler because you literally find out about it in the first few chapters of the book, but Ava is engaged to be married. I liked Ava a character – so I didn’t quite understand why the biggest thing I didn’t like in the book happened. It was fun and had some really witty dialogue and funny moments. Jack was partly responsible for the worst night of her entire life and when the plane has issues and they get stuck together in the beautiful island paradise, will she continue to hate him? I was in the mood for a light weekend cute read and this one was great, apart from one small issue I had with it.Īva is a flight attendant and is paired up on a flight to Belize, with her arch nemeiss. And all too soon, she might have to choose between keeping her feet on the ground and her head in the clouds…. Yet the more time Ava spends with him under the hot Caribbean sun, the more she begins to second-guess everything she thought she knew about him… and everything she thought she wanted from her life. Being stranded with him at a luxury resort in paradise? Even with the sultry breeze and white sand to distract her, it will take all the rum punch in the country to drown out his larger-than-life presence. Getting stuck on a three-hour flight with her nemesis was bad enough. A review of the 2017 film, The Layover, that stars Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, Matt Barr, Matt Jones, Kal Penn, and Molly Shannon. Good thing she never has to see him again after they land….īut when their plane encounters mechanical problems, what should have been a quick stop at the Belize airport suddenly becomes a weekend layover. And he has the nerve to flirt with her, as if he doesn’t remember the role he played in the most humiliating night of her life. But then she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone - the absurdly gorgeous, ridiculously cocky man she’s held a secret grudge against for years - is on her flight. She’s got one trip left before she bids her old life farewell, and she plans to enjoy every second of it. Lincoln, 77,, $20.After ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hang up her wings and finally put down roots. Through 3/22: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM, Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N.

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She’s got a fair bit of one of Headland’s other protagonists in her: Natasha Lyonne’s character in the Netflix series Russian Doll, which Headland cocreated with Lyonne and Amy Poehler.ĭex, Shellie, and Lyonne’s Nadia Vulvokov are all alike-deacons in the church of “ruin my life.” But crack that pained thought open, and you see what it really is saying: I would let you kindle these dead nerve endings again. Shellie’s life is practically in ruins already-she’s the full-time caregiver to an epileptic father (the amazing Jim Morley), unhappily married, tied down in every sense. You get the sense he would have let anyone ruin his life, given half the chance. Dex’s engagement to Andrea (Emma Jo Boyden) is over the second he sits down with Shellie at the bar in O’Hare after their Thanksgiving flight gets cancelled. If I would let you ruin my life, I’m obviously looking for trouble already. What does it mean? If Dex (Michael Vizzi) and Shellie (Allison Plott) feel that way about each other in Leslye Headland’s The Layover-a total masterpiece, ultimately just as devastating as it is hot-presented by The Comrades under Drew Shirley’s direction, as I contend they do, what does that feeling entail? Is it a disease? Is that, heaven help us, what love is now? “I would let ruin my life” is a phrase that anyone who’s radiated their eyes with thirsty comments online over the past few years will recognize as a hallmark of the genre.

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