I gave this four stars because parts of it dragged and I think Park took way too long to show what happened between Lily and Jake the first time. I don't know if I would have judged him like she did in the end. Also, I don't think that things were really resolved between Lily and her parents, it felt like she blamed Jake a lot more than them and it felt lopsided. I just think in the end, her parents, her sister, were barely in the story and honestly should have been considering all of the actions that went on which caused Lily to have her initial incident.

"The Do-Over" follows 30 something year old Lily Lee. She's a best-selling author and about to land her dream job. However, she gets told the job offer is a no go after they find out that Lily did not graduate college. Through calls, Lily finds out she was several credits shy of getting her degree and wasn't informed. In order to get her dream job and keep things under wraps, Lily goes back to college to finish her degree. At college though she meets her college boyfriend Jake, who is now a TA in a class she is taking.

So that's a short summary. I thought that Lily was great and loved the characters of Mia and Beth. Honestly those two needed to have a spin off because I loved reading about them and their antics. But, as some readers said, the romance with Jake isn't given enough time to focus on and we keep going back to the "past" way too much at a certain point. I wish that Park had flipped the order of things and maybe set up what happened way up front so you can get why Lily has the feelings she does about him. But, as I said above, when you do read the whole thing you have to wonder about Lily and her family. They just don't seem to play much into the plot and they should.

There's a sideplot about Lily being discovered and a brother/sister author team and honestly I had zero interest in it and it should have been cut.

All in all, a good solid 3 star romance.