Eternal optimist Libby Ross has just found out that she's officially 10 years cancer-free. She's had a rough year, with her father's death, followed closely by her daughter's diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes, and now a lackluster relationship with her husband, so some good news should make her jump for joy. So why can't she get excited about it? Perhaps a long-overdue visit to Puerto Rico, where she first met her husband, will help out. But as that trip devolves into an escalating series of disasters, Libby starts to question her optimistic outlook, as well as the choices she's made in the past.
I flat-out LOVED Pagan's 2020 novel, This Won't End Well, so I had pretty high hopes for this book. Unfortunately, it fell flat, with a protagonist who felt more whiny than anything, and a series of problems that could easily be solved by characters just talking to each other. Granted, part of the block to the talk-it-out solution is Libby's grief over her father's death, but holy cow it took her a long time to figure that out. Meh.
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