The ending is what saved this. Until then I thought I knew where the book was going and found myself a little bit bored.

Full review:

McFadden is really coming out there and trying to take the crown of thriller/mystery writer. And I think this one was really good, but the flow is so bad at one point I was just getting more and more bored. I think the segues into Tom's points of view is what made the book slow down. I just didn't care at a certain point. But I get why it's set up that way, otherwise it doesn't get you to the ending and why certain characters chose what they did.

"The Boyfriend" follows Sydney who is dealing with a series of bad dates via a New York based dating app. A guy she meets obviously lies about who he is and then does not take she's not interested. A mysterious man comes out of nowhere and saves her. Sydney starts to think about him and feels frustrated that one of her best friends is happily coupled up and another one is dating a hot mysterious doctor. The book segues back and forth between Sydney in the present day and a teen boy named Tom.

Sydney just feels a bit exhausting after a while. She has an overbearing mother who keeps calling her to tell her about women older than her who got pregnant. She's jealous of her friends, and upset that one of her exes did not make her a priority. The Tom sections focus on him falling for a popular teen girl in his high school and his family that is messy and dangerous.

The flow as I said is slow. I think jumping back and forth just didn't work after a while. I don't know if there was a way to pick that up a bit more. But it just dragged after a while.

The ending was a nice twist/flip. I thought it was going one way so that was great. I also liked where everyone ended up.