She does not know that she’s the stick meant to poke the Maya bear.īut what Jordy should have thought about is that women talk to each other, especially ones who are stuck in a house with nothing else to do but bond over their only guaranteed common denominator. She joins the show out of a mild curiosity about whether Jordy might be the one that got away but really because she’s got the travel bug and wants to explore a different country after already spending several months backpacking through Europe.
When their relationship ended, it was more or less amicable.
She’s really only let three people get close to her: her dad, her best friend and, for a brief time, Jordy. Thanks to some family trauma, Skye’s a private and guarded individual. All of this was unbeknownst to Skye, who actually wasn’t aware that Jordy had someone back home and certainly didn’t know that he’d told Maya that she’d known about her all along. The other POV is from Skye, the slightly older “other woman” who was with Jordy during his relationship with Maya and after it ended. And Jordy and the producers, just as unsurprisingly, are gunning to make her the villain. Maya, quite understandably, goes into this show hell-bent on revenge. Since his sister had just become royalty and he was now a world-renown eligible bachelor, his version of history is the one that stuck. He cheated on her, said the other girl knew about it, and then told everyone that Maya was nuts when she freaked out on him. Jordy really messed her up when he went to study in Canada. The first is from Maya, a recent high school grad who is going to college to study pre-med, mostly to make her mother happy. The story is told through alternating POVs. īut, as the Taylor Swift song that inspired the book’s title has taught us, not everyone actually wants to get back together with Jordy. high-end accessories for high-end accessories). The twist is that they’re all supposed to do this for a new show called Second Chance Romance because all the contestants have at least one thing in common: They all dated Jordy Miller, the handsome, manipulative younger brother of the newly crowned princess of Chalonne (a fictitious Scandinavian country that, upon Googling, seems to share its name with a very real luxury accessories brand for wearable tech-i.e. In this story, several young women go on a dating competition show that will put them through elaborate challenges as well as drunken catfights and confessionals in the hopes of winning the heart of a new person. Never Ever Getting Back Together, young-adult author Sophie Gonzales’ latest feminist, queer-positive spin on rom-com tropes, succeeds because it leans into the insanity that is the popularity of reality dating shows and that actually found a refreshing new approach to that staid format. Strangers are supposed to fawn-and fight-over these stars ostensibly because…they become convinced this person they’d never met until eight weeks ago is their soulmate? The thing that has always fascinated me about the Bachelor/ Bachelorette reality dating show mega-franchise is that the year’s titular lead is both the judge and the prize.
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