Publisher: St. Martin’s Press,  August 6, 2024

Format: ebook

Pages: 432

Rating: 5/5 stars

Summary (From Goodreads):

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston’s latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour and challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they’re over each other—except they’re definitely not.

Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other’s lives once and for all.

Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers. Kit, who never returned to America, graduated as the reigning sex god of his pastry school class and now bakes at one of the finest restaurants in Paris. Sure, nothing really compares to what they had, and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them, but—yeah. It’s in the past.

All that remains is the unused voucher for the European tour that never happened, good for 48 months after its original date and about to expire. Four years later, it seems like a great idea to finally take the trip. Solo. Separately.

It’s not until they board the tour bus that they discover they’ve both accidentally had the exact same idea, and now they’re trapped with each other for three weeks of stunning views, luscious flavors, and the most romantic cities of France, Spain, and Italy. It’s fine. There’s nothing left between them. So much nothing that, when Theo suggests a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their hot Italian tour guide first, Kit is totally game. And why stop there? Why not a full-on European hookup competition?

But sometimes a taste of everything only makes you crave what you can’t have.

My Review:

Thank you St. Martin’s Press for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: second chance romance, traveling setting
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Theo and Kit were meant to go on a European food and wine tour, but they break up right before the tour starts. Four years later, Theo is finally going on this tour, but they are horrified to see that Kit is also on the tour. The two are forced to reconcile their past and figure out if there is any room for each other in their future.
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I loved this book. I loved the European tour setting, and I wanted to eat all of the food that was mentioned. I also loved Kit and Theo as the protagonists. They were imperfect characters who were just trying to figure out what they wanted in life, and how to makeup after their bad split. The book was messy and there was a lot of miscommunication, but this was essentially who Theo and Kit were and I thought this worked well for this book. Kit and Theo are messy individuals who struggle to communicate what they want. Overall, I loved this book so much and This is my second favourite McQuiston, after Red, White, and Royal Blue.