The No-Show

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For me, this was a novel about how personal history and relationships are carried with you throughout your life and how they effect not only past but future relationship choices. Siobhan is stood up on a morning coffee date with Joseph, who before the date had been her monthly friends-with-benefits when she came to London for business (Siobhan is based in Dublin).

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I’ve been hearing good things about this book, primarily that most of us made the same assumption, and many were pleasantly surprised. It has funny moments, but it’s mainly a slice of women’s fiction with some thriller elements and extremely triggering subject matter (Sibohan’s self-harm is VERY realistic and got close to triggering for me, but that was a personal thing). Miranda, Siobhan and Jane’s family and colleagues were comical and opinionated, but with four main characters to keep up with, the others faded into the background.It’s a romance that feels like a mystery, where the puzzle is figuring out what the fuck is going on with all these relationships. It was just hard not to focus on the journey and not the resolution, when the resolution was such a big question mark. I’m a HUGE O’Leary fan but I have to admit, I wasn’t convinced she’d be able to trump her last novel, The Road Trip. The author’s last book, The Road Trip, also featured a plot where the reader doesn’t learn everything that transpired until late in the book.

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Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book and The No-Show is her most moving yet. The No-Show is the brilliantly funny, heart-breaking and joyful new novel from Beth O’Leary about dating, and waiting, and the ways love can find us. This is the most satisfying conclusion I’ve read in a long time and a wonderfully original take on the romance novel.

The plot here breezed along, with the story being narrated in alternating chapters by Siobhan, Miranda and Jane. The book sprinkles clues and misdirections as we piece together how each of the women met Joseph and how he’s managing this audacious juggling act. Kaetrin: I think The Flatshare was a romance but not everyone did, and with The Road Trip, Jennie saw it as romance while to me it wasn’t so clear. I read THE NO-SHOW this weekend and, while I found it well-written with strong characterizations of the female MCs, I have two things to say: firstly, this book has the most misleading cover since the infamous illustrated cover for Lexi Blake’s bdsm-heavy TAGGART FAMILY VALUES. Siobhan is an ambitious career coach in Dublin, who looks forward to monthly sex dates with Joseph and his magic tongue.