But (surprise!) Wyn is there too, and he and Harriet have to share a (very romantic) room and a bed. She’s ready for a vacation at her happy place-the Maine cottage she and her friends visit every summer. So they keep it a secret from their friends and families-in fact, Harriet barely even admits it to herself, focusing instead on her grueling hours as a surgical resident. They’ve been part of the same boisterous friend group since college, and they know that their breakup will devastate the others and make things more than a little awkward. Wyn Connor and Harriet Kilpatrick were the perfect couple-until Wyn dumped Harriet for reasons she still doesn’t fully understand. Dade's ironic awareness of popular romance tropes adds another layer of interest and fun.Ī consistently entertaining and often insightful romance.Įxes pretend they’re still together for the sake of their friends on their annual summer vacation. As engaging as the two are when they're together, Alex’s penchant for fan fiction and Lauren’s dynamic with her best friend help them emerge as well-rounded characters individually. Alex’s and Lauren’s attitudes toward their own bodies also evolve beautifully as their relationship deepens.
Alex’s full-throated conviviality bounces productively off Lauren’s cautious reserve, bringing out different sides of both their personalities. The second installment in Dade’s Spoiler Alert series weaves in sharp wit and dry humor even as it tugs at the reader's heartstrings with its exploration of the far-reaching repercussions of trauma. While she must decide if she wants Alex in her life more than she wants to keep him away from controversy, Alex needs to face his demons before he can make a future with Lauren. But before they can acknowledge their mutual attraction, trouble finds him again, causing Lauren to lose her job. Despite her resolve to remain unaffected by him, Lauren finds herself admiring and empathizing with Alex. Lauren, emerging from a decadelong stint as an ER therapist, has a finely honed sense of duty and morality and a long track record of maintaining professional distance from her patients. When Alex’s resentment erupts in a bar fight, the show appoints Lauren Clegg to steer him away from trouble and negative publicity. He's seething with frustration, not only because the showrunner is inept and tactless, but also because Cupid’s arc forces him to relive memories of trauma in his own past. When a volatile actor is assigned a guarded therapist to keep him in line, each discovers there’s more to the other than meets the eye.Īlex Woodroe, star of popular TV drama Gods of the Gates, is filming the final season of the show-and he despises the evolution of his character, Cupid.
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