Can’t Wait Wednesday #59 – The Predictable Heartbreaks of Imogen Finch by Jacqueline Firkins

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the Jill at Breaking the Spine. So let me introduce you my Can’t Wait Wednesday #59 pick! Click on the book’s cover to add it to your Goodreads shelf.

From The Publisher:

A beautiful story of friendship, and second chances at love.

Imogen Finch has just been through her seventeenth breakup. She saw it coming, so she’s not as crushed as she might be, but with all seventeen of her exes leaving her for other partners, she’s come to believe a prediction her well-intentioned and possibly clairvoyant mother made over twenty years ago: that Imogen would never come first at anything or to anyone. Is her love life failing due to a magical curse? Insufficient effort? Poor timing or personality mismatches? Everyone has opinions on the matter. Imogen’s ready to give up altogether. But when Eliot Swift, her secret high school crush, returns to their small coastal town after a decade of nomadic travels, Imogen has new motivation to try again. Eliot’s full of encouragement. He suggests that her curse is not only imagined, it’s easily breakable. All they need is one win–any win–and she can believe in love, and in herself again.

From trivia games to swimming races to corn-shucking contests, the pair sets out to snag Imogen her first first. But when victory proves more elusive than Eliot anticipated, and when his deep-seeded wanderlust compels him to depart for far away places, Imogen fears she’s destined to remain in second place forever. Fortunately for them both, sometimes magic lingers in the most unexpected places. And love is far from predictable.

Why I Can’t Wait To Read The Predictable Heartbreaks of Imogen Finch:

I enjoyed the author’s previous book Marlowe Banks, Redesigned and the synopsis for this book makes me want to read more about Imogen’s story. I have a soft spot for those characters who are down on their luck and I want to know if Eliot proves to be the one to break this “curse”.

Does this book sound like one you’d like to read? Or, have you been lucky enough to have already read it? Let me know in the comments!

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