A couple, after six years of casual sex, are finally spending a night together. Twist? They are married to other people. A fire traps them in their hotel room and forces them to confront the lies they've told their spouses, each other, and themselves.
[The] first-rate premise is no match for the tedium of its execution ... Things aren’t so great for readers either. After all, they’re stuck for nearly 300 pages with only lubricious, self-involved Nick and vapid, insecure Jenny, who, to be fair, banter amusingly, but whose intense inner monologues and conversations about the depth and breadth and future of their relationship rapidly grow wearisome.
Nuanced, thoughtful ... It’s well-worth watching the layers of Jenny and Nick’s emotional armor being peeled back as the tension between them and the danger mounts in Kennedy’s increasingly gripping and emotional novel.
