Audrey and Ian were best friends—until they fell in love with the same man. To be precise, they fell in love with, married, and divorced the same man. And there’s no coming back from that.
Twenty-odd years later, they’re right back at the beginning: Vienna, where their university study abroad turned into a love triangle from which they never quite recovered. But it’s Christmas, and Audrey’s daughter is getting married. Time to let bygones be bygones.
Not for the sake of the holiday or even because they’ve matured with age…but because their mutual ex is nowhere to be found. It’s up to Audrey and Ian to track him down.
As wedding plans go further awry, the former besties race to find the father of the bride. Juggling complicated family dynamics (and the cocktails required to cope), they learn that, sometimes, it’s not about the search but the friendships rediscovered along the way.
"The waiter looks at us, confused, but we both nod. We remember each other's poison of choice. Of course we do. We were Ian and Audrey. Audrey and Ian. Inseparable. Irreplaceable. Interchangeable. One mind, two bodies. We were each other's soulmates and best friends."
I'm a huge fan of characters who are quite honestly just a mess. I find it refreshing, seeing people who are not polished and perfect, trying to just muddle through their lives and make it through. Audrey and Ian were a mess, and whilst I loved them, they teetered on the line between messy and just immature and mean.
Now, I know there's the bugbear here - the queer guy being written as unfaithful and promiscuous. But here's the thing, there's writing it because you're perpetuating the stereotype of sexually fluid people being this way, or there's just writing a character who just happens to be a bad person and also is queer which I'm fairly sure this book falls into. It also allows an interesting dynamic to emerge - two friends, in love, married and divorced from the same man.
Audrey and Ian take it in turns telling their story, remembering the chaos before the wedding and then leading us through the madcap antics that ensue when their ex-husband goes awol and they start to thaw, let each other and us into their hearts for a moment and start to feel their friendship come back to life.
While I didn't find myself fully connected to the characters. I can't deny there's a lot of fun to be had in this book - a quick, fast-paced and energetic story full of friendship, complications, absurdly booze-soaked situations and a little festive spirit that will make this a great winter read.
⭐⭐⭐
- My Ex-Husbands Ex-Husband releases November 18th
- I received a reviewers copy of this title
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