Like a lot of rom-com characters, Lucy and Rudy have not been lucky in love. But they haven’t given up, and when they match on a dating app, things are looking up.

Setup 

Lucy is a quirky rom-com writer who can’t catch a break and is instead working as a personal assistant for a writer who has caught all the breaks, and supplementing that with other random gigs she finds on Craigslist. Rudy is a former child star whose star power has dulled a little while his brother’s has only gotten brighter. He’s doing comedy gigs and scraping by. 

A Crystal Ball

Lucy and Rudy connect on a dating app and Rudy plans an interesting first date involving a well-known restaurant with a resident psychic. They go up to get their fortunes told, and the psychic manages a mysterious prophecy about the two of them working together before the session is abruptly ended. 

Working Together

Lucy and Rudy aren’t sure what to make of things, but they decide to follow the advice of the psychic and see what comes of associating together, all while trying to figure out how they can actually work-work together. When Rudy’s living situation implodes, Lucy offers him a comfy closet in her place. With life throwing them together, it’s not surprising that they get close, and it’s nice to see a relatively slow burn finally pay off.

Conclusion

Lucy and Rudy are both great characters with interesting backstories, and I enjoyed watching them come together and both grow over the course of the book. A bonus is the book is pretty funny, too.