by Wendy Higgins
Book: Stand Alone
Pub Date: August 25, 2020
Genre: New Adult,
Format: eBook
Source: Bought
Book Links: Goodreads Amazon
At twenty-four, Harlow Robinson has run headfirst into a quarter-life crisis. Her high school girlfriends have dropped like flies, one wedding after another, forcing her into panic mode. It’s fight or flight time, and flight wins—literally. She breaks off a loveless engagement with her childhood sweetheart and abandons a teaching degree to become a flight attendant for Omega Skies.
Now Harlow is living her best glamorous, single life as a self-proclaimed sky muffin, at least that’s how it appears from the outside. But 3:00AM wakeup calls and nights alone in hotels make the days blend into a blur of loneliness. When her seven roommates sign her up for the dating app Sparks, Harlow finds herself navigating an entirely new lifestyle with more men than she can handle.
What’s a girl to do? Date them all, of course.
From New York Times bestseller, Wendy Higgins,
comes her first contemporary adult romcom. Please sit back and keep your
seatbelts fastened because this will be a bumpy ride. Enjoy your flight.
My Review: UGH what the heck did I just read?!
Harlow is an amazingly done character and I loved every
minute of her. But right now, she has a little crisis. Graduated school to be a teacher, broke up with her boyfriend and then up and left to become a flight attendant. Yup, perfectly normal...but it works out. She's having a good time, has great friends/roommates.
So far, life is good. Yes, she would love to actually teach at some point, but right now, flying ain't all that bad. On one trip, everyone is delayed due to a storm, so the crew and passengers are stuck at a local hotel for the night. Doesn't seem too bad though, the pilot is a good friend to her and the passengers happen to be really cool and kind marines. The night goes pretty well. Harlow hangs out with the marines, especially a really kind and good looking CO. They along well, bond and then bam! He's got a fiance back home. Yup, there go any of those thoughts.
Some time goes by and Harlow went from a dating app, to a lousy night to having a hunky marine all to herself. Bu just as quickly as he came, Shawn is gone. Harlow is hurt, ends up in a moment of heat with a good friend and everything goes upside down.
Harlow has great friends and support, she can make it through this. Plus a wonderful trip to Paris doesn't hurt either. Once she's back, things start to fall back into place slowly.
Then, it finally happens! Harlow and Silas finally get together and get the happiness that they both deserve.
I just loved this book! Wendy NEVER disappoints me and heck, it may even be my favorite. (The Sweets Series is still up there)
