ROMANCE

When Javi Dumped Mari

Putnam. Jun. 2025. 352p. ISBN 9798217044306. pap. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
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When Javier Báez finally pulls together his career in theater a decade after graduating college, he discovers it might just be too late. Too late to finally show up for his best friend, Marisol Campos, now a powerful entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles, and tell her he’s ready to be her everything. Javier and Marisol spent their college years valuing their friendship, not exploring their mutual attraction, and they vowed to always get approval from the other before starting any serious relationship. These vows worked until they slipped and let their mutual attraction lead to a weekend of passion. Then Javier dumped Mari. Now, Marisol has vowed to take her love life and her potential happily-ever-after into her own hands, leaving Javier scrambling to show that his years of pining and waiting were all to make sure he became the man Marisol deserves.
VERDICT A welcome return from Sosa (The Wedding Crasher) in a rom-com homage to When Harry Met Sally and My Best Friend’s Wedding. Press into the hands of readers who love romances with past and present timelines.
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