(Note: this book came out in 2020 before you-know-what, so it's an alternate version that didn't suck.)
Quinn and Minnie were born on the same day, New Year's Eve. Minnie's mother helped Quinn's through their mutual labors, and for her efforts Quinn was born first (Minnie's mom needed that NYE prize money) AND Quinn's mom even stole her baby name! So Minnie (whose last name is Cooper, because nobody thought an alternate name through very well) has grown up thinking she's bad luck. She has terrible birthdays every year and at the start of this book, she ends up locked in a toilet all night and her jackass boyfriend just left without even finding her.
Minnie's rescued the next morning by Quinn, who she's never met before but she definitely recognizes him. She's cranky about the guy at first, but he's a legitimately nice person, handsome, charming, rich businessman type. Quinn has more going on than you'd think, though--his mother is anxious and depressed and he is basically Laura Linney's character from Love Actually, dropping everything and everyone once his mother calls...again. Quinn learns that his relationships aren't going to last through his mother, he dates women he's not going to really attach to, and he looks like a commitmentphobe when in reality, he's got mama issues.
Minnie's got a charity pie business going on that's not going well, and she's kind of a bit in denial about how she's about to lose her home and business all at once. Which she does. I admit Minnie wasn't coming off so great early on in the book--you're kinda like, girl, wake up--but she does improve, realizes she has to move in with her parents and get a regular job, and start adulting better.
It takes about a year for the two of them to finally get together, and it works. I kinda think it might have been nice to acknowledge more why Quinn was "commitmentphobic," but I did like how the moms reunited and his mom started doing better, so things could actually work out.
Four stars.
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