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My Ex-Husband's Ex-Husband by Rachel Cohn, Melissa de la Cruz

My Ex-Husband's Ex-Husband

A Novel

by Rachel Cohn, Melissa de la Cruz

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From New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Cohn and Melissa de la Cruz comes a freewheeling journey through Vienna where two estranged friends search for their mutual ex―and a long-lost bond.

Audrey and Ian were best friends―until they fell in love with the same man. To be precise, they fell in love with, married, and divorced the same man. And there's no coming back from that.

Twenty-odd years later, they're right back at the beginning: Vienna, where their university study abroad turned into a love triangle from which they never quite recovered. But it's Christmas, and Audrey's daughter is getting married. Time to let bygones be bygones.

Not for the sake of the holiday or even because they've matured with age…but because their mutual ex is nowhere to be found. It's up to Audrey and Ian to track him down.

As wedding plans go further awry, the former besties race to find the father of the bride. Juggling complicated family dynamics (and the cocktails required to cope), they learn that, sometimes, it's not about the search but the friendships rediscovered along the way.

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"Like a vacation with your manically funny, always tipsy train-wreck friend, My Ex-Husband's Ex-Husband capers through Vienna on a high of pastries, cocktails, banter, and long-held grudges. Two of my favorite authors." ―E. Lockhart, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars

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Marianne Vincent

The right readers will find it entertaining.
3.5?s
My Ex-husband’s Ex-husband is a novel by award-winning, bestselling American authors, Rachel Cohn and Melissa de la Cruz. Audrey Krishnan-Meyer is back in Vienna, this time for the occasion of her daughter, Isadora’s wedding. It’s where her ex-husband Beau has settled, but also where she and her then best friend, Ian Harvey first encountered, and both fell for, the charismatic and promiscuous Beau Williamson, during their study-abroad year.

Now Audrey is back, with her younger daughter Max organising the wedding, the happy couple enjoying the preamble to Christmas in Vienna, Beau’s implacable mother, Georgia nastily critical of every aspect and, much to Audrey’s chagrin, Ian has been invited. Conspicuously absent is the father of the bride. Beau isn’t answering calls or texts, and to save heartbreak for Izzy, Audrey and Ian find themselves teaming up to locate him.

Their search takes them to a day-rave at a club, various favourite spots from their study-abroad year, and they catch up with another American acquaintance resident in Vienna, Colin Villan. Ian is distracted by non-stop calls from his agent, Damien, who is trying to repair the damage that Ian’s rant against publishers at his book event is causing, while Audrey flirts with Colin.

Along the way, Audrey is roofied, she and Ian withstand Georgia’s acid tongue, and they discover something about Beau’s poor behaviour while each of them was married to him. A major flaw in Max’s organisation threatened the nuptials, the bride gets cold feet, there’s a lot of drinking and quite a bit of disagreement in the close quarters of their sub-par Air-BnB.

While the alternating narratives, Audrey and Ian, are well marked, both are first-person narratives and the voices are quite similar, so can be confusing. A lot of drama and a good dose of humour before several predictable HEAs. The right readers will find it entertaining.

This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and Little A.

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Rachel Cohn is the Emmy-winning screenwriter and New York Times bestselling author of numerous acclaimed books for young adults. Translated into twenty-three languages, her novels have been honored as Best Books of the Year by the American Library Association, the New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews, among others. Three of Cohn's books have also been adapted for the screen: Dash & Lily (Netflix), Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Columbia Pictures/Sony), and Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List (independent film).

Melissa de la Cruz is the #1 New York Times, #1 Publishers Weekly, and #1 IndieBound bestselling author of critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for readers of all ages. Many of her more than seventy books have also topped the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists, and her work has been published in over twenty countries. She is the author of the Disney Descendants series with four of the biggest movies on Disney Channel and Disney+. Her Witches of East End series was an hourlong drama for Lifetime. Her Hallmark movies include Christmas in Angel Falls; Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday; Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe; and Sense, Sensibility & Snowmen. She lives in West Hollywood with her husband and daughter.

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