Title: The Five-Year Plan
Author: Carla Burgess
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Publisher: HQ Digital (20 Mar. 2020)
Buy Link: Amazon
Blurb
Orla is a trainee reporter with a five-year plan: work her way up the career ladder, move to London and secure a job on a big national newspaper. She doesn’t want a boyfriend, he’s only going to hold her back anyway.
Aiden spends his life travelling the world and living in a tent. He knows his goal: to photograph animals and raise awareness of global warming and wildlife conservation. He’s definitely not looking for a relationship past the odd casual hook-up!
So when Orla and Aiden’s lives collide, they do everything to not fall for each other – with the opposite effect. But they stick to their plans, and go their separate ways…
Five years later, they meet again…
Review
The synopsis of The Five Year Plan reeled me in and the first chapter was great, Orla, a journalist received a surprise invitation to her ex-boyfriend Aiden’s (now a famous wildlife photographer) event to interview him. She hadn’t seen him in five years since they split and she was quite nervous to see him again as they hadn’t had any contact since. So brings her co-worker who also happens to be a huge fan of Aiden. Things get a bit awkward and Orla leaves, there is then a bit of a cliff hanger that leads on to the next chapter which if I’m honest seemed more page filling than anything meaningful, so go back to five years ago to when they were together and where it ended.
I felt the book was too long for the actual story and could have been cut by a fair few pages. The beginning and end were great but the middle just felt like I was pulling myself through just to get it read and I almost didn’t finish it, I’m glad I stuck through it though as the end did redeem it.
Sadly not the book for me but I am sure many will love it.
3.5 stars
Author Bio
Carla Burgess was born in Solihull and now lives in Chester, UK, with her husband, three children, dog and bearded dragon. She has a degree in English Literature and Psychology and started her working life as an editor on a magazine. She now works for the NHS.
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Disclaimer: I received a copy of this ebook as part of the virtual tour hosted by Rachel’s Random Resources. All thoughts and opinions are my own and not influenced in any way.
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