Not Here to Make Friends

Lily and Murray have been best friends and work partners for the past 13 years, and have climbed up the career ladder to be the showrunners of the Marry Me, Juliet franchise. Until Lily loses her husband Jeff in an accident and disappears from Murray’s life for an entire year. The last thing he was expecting, starting on the new season of MMJ, the first with a diverse cast, and shooting in the middle of pandemic restrictions, is to find that Lily was cast by the network to be this season’s villain. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book! I loved having morally grey and villainous main characters, who didn’t hesitate to cross some lines to produce good reality TV. The tension between Lily and Murray was delicious! I could easily see how these two best friends hadn’t managed to find a good time to come clean about their feelings, which made the resulting blow-up make so much sense.