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Loading... Detour to Loveby Amanda Radley
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Romance is in the air on this detour to love. High-flying executive Celia Scott is on her way to Tokyo to accept a prestigious award heavy with emotional baggage. She'll make the trip, but she doesn't have to like it, and she certainly doesn't have to make nice with a stranger on a plane. Artist Lily Andersen is excited to finally meet her online crush, the only person in the world who truly gets her. She just needs to survive the eleven-hour flight from London to Japan with a testy seatmate who by turns annoys and fascinates her. Fate, upgrades, and a troupe of travelling clowns bring them together for a journey memorable for all the wrong reasons. Not only do they have nothing in common, they really can't stand each other. But people are not always as they seem, and Celia and Lily are about to realise, there's more than one path to love. No library descriptions found. |
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Right, so, two women end up flying together to Tokyo. They did not previously know each other, they just happened to end up next to each other. A very young woman, Lily Andersen, is off to Tokyo to meet her catfisher. I mean, online love interest. They've been communicating for a good long while, and they seem to "really get each other". And so, Lily is off to meet them for the first time, in person, billions of miles away in Tokyo (she lives in London). And, okay, it is only 5,938 miles between the two cities.
Lily is an artist of 25 (if I remember her age correctly). She normally flies economy but gets offered the opportunity to upgrade to business class. The other main character, on the other hand, ends up in business class from the other direction. Celia had booked (or had it done for her) a first class ticket, but there was a plane switch, and so now there are more first class passengers than seats. Plus most of the first class seats (all?) would be filled with clowns (literally, there was a circus traveling or something). So Celia got moved to business class.
Celia Scott, an insurance executive, is heading of to Tokyo to pick up an award. She wants nothing to do with the award, but she's being forced to get it. Celia is more than twice Lily's age, being 51. Celia is a rich entitled woman who feels the need to drink a lot to numb herself to flying. So, drunk, Celia and Lily's first meeting does not really go that well. Actually, the drinking part probably didn't play that big of a part in Celia and Lily's first interaction. Lily was poking every sandwich at an airport shop, and Celia asks her to let her know when she's done fondling the food so Celia can get something. The drunk part occurred later-ish.
Right, so, two women whose paths would likely never have crossed, end up sitting next to each other on a plane. They don't really "get to know each other" while sitting next to each other, but more later. When the plane unexpectedly lands in Denmark, the two end up staying at the same place (Lily's grandmother's place), and thereafter the two begin a friendship that leads to more.
Despite age gap stories not being my thing, I liked the story and both of the characters. I even liked the romance aspects, again, despite that massive age gap.
hmm. I somewhat expected that I had something more to write here. Apparently I don't. bah.
Rating: 4.22
February 20 2021 (