One Night On the Island by Josie Silver

Other books by Josie Silver:
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
One Day in December

In One Night on the Island, Cleo is a relationship columnist for a London paper who decides to go to an isolated Irish island to connect with herself. Meanwhile, dickhead Mac is a married man with two kids who is also on the island to photograph it for an exhibition in the States. They end up in the same cabin and soon enough sparks are flying.

Look. Here's the thing. Mac is married. He's essentially cheating on his wife for this "vacation fling." I am just not on board with the premise. I don't think infidelity is sexy. I just don't. I also don't think Mac's broody nature is attractive and Cleo's self-absorption practically makes her a kitchen drain of charisma. But mostly I was stuck on how Silver was going to turn this into a book that wasn't about cheating and she didn't manage to do that.

Silver's books always get marketed as romance novels and they are JUST NOT. They're stories about complicated people and there's always a romantic storyline, but it's not the major storyline. I think if these books were marketed correctly, people like me wouldn't be so upset about them. 

Look, it just didn't work for me. Maybe it will for you.

2/5 stars (these stars are angry) 

Line of note:

Every now and then, I wish I could press pause on life and stay longer in a moment. This is one of those moments. (location 2851)