Dream On | Angie Hockman
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"blaming things on fate only downplays the importance of choice."
A cute romcom about a girl lawyer and *gasp* a male flower shop owner. Cass is an alright protagonist, nothing really to write home about but she is in a bit of a conundrum, though. She has just woken up from a coma and is asking for her boyfriend, Devin. Alas, he is not there. As in - he doesn't exist. No one knows who she's talking about and there is not a single photo, call or text to indicate she even knows a Devin. But what about those memories she has of him?
When she meets Perry, a wonderful man who owns a flower shop he inherited from his mom and which he might lose, she helps him organize a fundraising event. He also happens to be Devin's brother... But things are not what they seem and what Cass thought was her dream man turns out be nothing more than a figment of her brain's mysterious ways.
It was a cute story overall, that tackled anxiety in a nice way. What I wasn't too keen on was the Hallmark-y trope of a career woman giving up everything she's worked towards for a quaint artist and a slow life. Because women cannot be happy working these high stakes, high paying jobs - that's how they lose their femininity and become heartless harpies, right? Blech... Anyway, cute but left a bit of an unpleasant taste in my mouth in the end.
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