{"id":143750,"date":"2021-04-26T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143750"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T15:13:28","slug":"rachel-reviews-the-ex-talk-rachel-lynn-solomon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143750","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reviews: The Ex-Talk &#8211; Rachel Lynn Solomon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143751\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ex-Talk-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ex-Talk-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ex-Talk-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ex-Talk-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ex-Talk-1366x2048.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ex-Talk.jpeg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4685751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4685751&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1618412282126000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGil3y2z7x2_CxJmD_wgmZZ7Rm-wg\">The Ex Talk<\/a>\u2014two rival coworkers pretend to be exes in lieu of unemployment!\u2014is a fresh take on enemies-to-lovers with that certain charm I loved in\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4510949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4510949&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1618412282127000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGB5ZOFwXbd8Em2EYdJJYygrYqDiA\">Today Tonight Tomorrow<\/a><\/i>. The addition of Shay\u2019s personal life and her feelings of inadequacy, imposter syndrome, and lingering grief gave an otherwise tropey romance layers, but I especially enjoyed how Solomon went against type and cast Dominic as the young ingenue to Shay\u2019s seasoned professional. (Perhaps a slight lean toward a gender-flipped\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/2927300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/2927300&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1618412282127000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHtOM4WoFKjW8bp8WaKs2Js9ioCpg\">His Girl Friday<\/a><\/i>?\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/e\/1f914\" alt=\"&#x1f914;\" data-goomoji=\"1f914\" data-image-whitelisted=\"\" \/>) Although I thought the radio show transcripts were a fantastic touch, and I will literally read anything Solomon writes no matter the plot (yes I love her writing that much), I didn\u2019t fall head over heels for\u00a0<i>The Ex Talk<\/i>\u00a0the book the way I did for The Ex Talk the podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ex Talk\u2014two rival coworkers pretend to be exes in lieu of unemployment!\u2014is a fresh take on enemies-to-lovers with that certain charm I loved in\u00a0Today Tonight Tomorrow. The addition of Shay\u2019s personal life and her feelings of inadequacy, imposter syndrome, and lingering grief gave an otherwise tropey romance layers, but I especially enjoyed how Solomon&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":143751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-rachel-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ex-Talk.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-Boy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143752,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143750\/revisions\/143752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}