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Christina Lauren delivers in Twice in a Blue Moon! Tate and Sam, strangers, bump into each other when they are 18 and 21 (respectively) and visiting London with their grandparents. They hit it off and sparks fly... but this is more than infatuation... Tate feels like this is so much more-- it could be love. But then Tate's secret past is spilled to the press, and, of course, they jump on her-- the "lost" daughter of a Brad Pitt-like movie star. And Tate and Sam's romance is over before it really even has time to begin. Cut to 14 years later: Tate is an actress, and she has just landed the character-driven role of her career, with her dad set to play the supporting actor. Turns out, though, that the screenwriter is the very same Sam who potentially sold her story to the tabloids fourteen years ago. What will she do? Because Sam is still so very nice to look at and talk with....

I love Christina Lauren's books because they don't fall in the predictable romance trope that so many bodice-rippers fall prey to. And Twice in a Blue Moon is a story so very unique... it's almost two romances in one as Tate and Sam fall in love as teens (about half the book) and again fourteen years later (the second half).

I really disliked this book which was a disappointing because I usually really like Christina Lauren books. I just couldn't connect with the characters mostly because I found them to be flat, especially Sam. He was so boring and I hated him. The reason he sold out Tate didnt make me like him or forgive him. I still think he's a shitty person. And the whole relationship Tate had with her father annoyed me. I just couldn't understand why she would ever want to have a relationship with him. I was more interested in her mother and grandma but they were barely in it. I also just didnt understand or like Tate all that much. Also there were several parts where it would be pages of the script of the movie they are filming which really took me out of the story and felt clunky and disjointed. Overall not for me.

Tate meets Sam when she's on a trip to Europe with her grandmother for her 18th birthday. Sam is 21 and traveling with his guardian. They fall in love at first sight and become lovers until Sam betrays her trust. Years later when they meet again, they realize that they never got over what happened and how they felt about each other. Unfortunately, Sam and Tate have a lot to overcome including lots of family drama. Excellent second chance at love story with great well developed characters!