With my friend we send books that we like back to each other. Recently I received this book and the title perplexed me, especially when I got into the book. In the end it was good and the sign of a good book is trying to find the time while doing anything to read it.

So we have Dannie the female in the lead. From the first page on she is a very regimented person who lives by numbers. She counts to twenty-five before she opens her eyes. It’s a calming technique. Thirty-six, thats how long it takes her to get ready for work, that’s how long it takes to walk to work. She lives in New York City, and it would go on. She lives with her boyfriend David. Today Dannie has an interview with a top law firm, one she has focused on for quite a long time. That night they go out to dinner and have some drinks when they get home she puts on comfy clothes sits on the couch and falls asleep immediately. When she wakes up she is in a completely different apartment. She wonders if she has been kidnapped and then a man comes into the room. He seems to know her but she doesn’t know him, she looks down at what she was wearing and it is a dress she owns but didn’t have on the night before. They were going to change their clothes and he shows familiarity about the drawer that he opens and she realizes that he lives here with her. She takes off to the bathroom and trys to figure out what she is going to do, she needs to find out his name and decides to look in his wallet. Aaron Gregory, 33 years old. She goes out, looks him over and realizes that he is quite handsome. Further on in the chapter it becomes very erotic. Next chapter, she wakes up and David is back in the apartment. She is very confused. She tries to find out who he is in her dream. Dannie had gotten her dream job and 4.5 years go by. She had gotten engaged but they never found the time in four and a half years to get married.

Bella is Dannies best friend and she has parents who are wealthy and she has unlimited money. She usually has many boyfriends through the years. They last 2 to 4 months and then move on. She travels and owns an art gallery. Dannie is meeting her for lunch and Bella starts to tell her about her new boyfriend, Greg. She wants Dannie and David to meet him because he is “different than the others” and go out to dinner. Dannie agrees and when they get to the restaurant Dannie is shocked to realize he is the man in her dream four and a half years ago!

I have set the scene and don’t want to ruin the rest of the book for you if you decide to read it. I hope I gave you enough to pique your interest. I did like it and it took a while to understand the title. It’s not a long book, 251 pages, easy to read and quick. It has topics and questions for a book club in the back and it has a very nice ending though sad. I know that doesn’t seem like it should go together.