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Maybe Once, Maybe Twice
Alison Rose Greenberg
336 pages | Published by St. Martin's Press
The Set Up: At 17, Maggie falls in love at summer art camp and they promise to marry each other if they are both single at 35. At 30, Maggie is in love with her best friend and they make the same pact. Now 35, Maggie is still trying to make her music career take off while feeling her biological clock ticking away. When both men find her on her birthday, Maggie has to work out her feelings for them both.
Alison Rose Greenberg has solidified herself as an auto-buy author for me. She is writing complex stories that don’t oversimplify life or love in any way. Her characters are a bit messy, but that’s life. I appreciate that her books end happily but not in a perfect or cheesy fairy-tale way.
It’s definitely worth mentioning how well ARG handles trauma - TWs for mentions of suicide and sexual assault. I haven’t seen the ripple effect that a traumatic event can have specifically called out in a book before which was really interesting.
I don’t gravitate toward love triangle stories (they stress me out!!) but this one really sucked me in. On one hand, we had a second chance summer camp romance (!!!) and on the other, a right person wrong time friends to lovers romance (!!!). Parts of the story were heartbreaking, but I felt completely satisfied by where everything ended.
I really just loved this book you guys. I know Alison is a Swiftie and this book FELT like a fountain pen song in the best way and iykyk.
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