I enjoy the escapist fun of a sexy, confident, flawless hero falling for a me-substitute as much as the next girl, but it’s so much easier to believe in love that feels earned and grows between characters who aren’t props or fantasies but compellingly flawed people.
Shay’s a great heroine, witty and wry and vividly real, and Dominic is just as complex and lovingly drawn. (Rachel Lynn Solomon, are you my stalker?) So I might have related more than usual as Shay worked and struggled and stumbled on her path to success, professionally and romantically. After a decade working in my dream industry, cutbacks sent my career trajectory, like Shay’s, on an unexpected left turn. I don’t work in radio, but my nine NPR podcast subscriptions reveal my addiction. She’s started to fall for the man now nationally known as her ex.įull confession: I massively overidentified with the heroine. There’s more to Dominic than Shay expected, and there’s a lot more to her feelings for him than disdain. Of course, as they tangle in the sound booth, chemistry emerges-along with a burgeoning, unexpected friendship. The easier path seems to be to take a chance and snag her dream job, even if it means pretending to have fallen in and out of love with a man she doesn’t know but is quite sure she dislikes. Shay’s current show is on the chopping block, so it’s lie-way or the highway. Or they can lose their jobs due to cutbacks. They just have to fudge the truth a little (a lot-to everyone) and focus on telling a story, whether or not it’s true.
But no one needs to know that, the director suggests. But Shay and Dominic disagree on everything. She’s stunned when the program director loves the idea and wants Shay to host it along with the station’s new hotshot reporter, Dominic Yun. Still, she’s mostly joking when she suggests, at a come-up-with-new-programming-because-we’re-a-sinking-ship meeting, that the station create a relationship program hosted by ex-lovers. Shay Goldstein is devoted to the public radio station where she works as a producer, but her dream is to host a show of her own. What other reason do you need?) But what if I said this story isn’t about faking being together, but faking breaking up? (Many people’s favorite is The Proposal, but I’m partial to Someone Like You, weird cow subplot and all, because Hugh Jackman-well, because Hugh Jackman. If I told you that The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon was an “enemies-to-lovers workplace romance,” you’d probably think you’d know what to expect, right? Especially if I said that this was a fake relationship story as well? It’s a familiar, much-loved plot.
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