Tuesday, July 26, 2022
WRITERS & LOVERS by Lily King
Casey is a 31-year-old aspiring writer with crushing student
loan debts that she acquired after blowing off a golf scholarship. Barely keeping the creditors at bay, she waits
tables at a posh Boston restaurant, where she meets Oscar, a charming, established
author who is a dozen or so years her senior.
Oscar, whose wife died of cancer, is now the single parent of two
ridiculously delightful boys. Casey is
grieving as well, as the death of her mother a year ago under weird
circumstances seems to have fueled Casey’s panic attacks. Meanwhile, Casey is also stringing Silas
along. He is an aspiring writer himself
and falls more in her age bracket and peer group. While she has an embarrassment of riches in
the romance department, her already precarious financial situation takes a
nosedive; she loses her job, learns that the space she rents is about to be
sold, and discovers a possible cancerous lump.
This confluence of bad news would drive anyone to panic attacks, and
writing is the balm that soothes her. Plus,
she eventually has to choose between the two men in her life. She and Oscar’s lively and witty banter, not
to mention his adorable sons, made me root for him, but she lusts after Silas
in a completely different way, and he seems almost as broken as she is. Bottom line:
I loved everything about this novel—the characters, the writing, and the
storyline, which starts to fizzle near the end but then bursts into flower. I did not expect that this book could top Euphoria,
but this book has more heart and a more endearing cast.
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