Unfortunately, the more time they spend together, the more they realize they might actually be a pretty good match. All Dominic and Shay have to do to keep their jobs, and hopefully become a hit, is lie to the world about having dated – and try to keep their hands off of each other. Only four people are in on the truth: Kent, Dominic, Shay and Shay’s best friend Ammena, to whom she cannot lie. Shay and Dominic set aside their rivalry to come up with a decent relationship timeline and to plan how to lie to everyone they know. If they don’t do the Ex Talk, they’ll both be cleaning out their desks. But then Kent drops a bombshell – PPR is in a tailspin, and there are layoffs coming. Shay’s heart leaps at the idea of hosting her own show, but Dominic puts his foot down about deceiving the public. There are only three problems: 1) Shay and Dominic never dated, 2) they detest each other, and 3) journalistic integrity frowns upon lying. Kent taps Shay and Dominic to host the show together, given their mutual animosity, and a rapport he’s noticed. Shay manages to avoid Dominic for the most part, until a station-wide brainstorming meeting produces the premise of a new show: the Ex Talk, two exes talking about their relationship, why it went wrong, and how they stayed friends. This irritation is spurred by the antagonism between them, which has an undercurrent of frustrated attraction.

It only makes matters worse when Dominic gets to talk on air almost immediately, something Shay has been dreaming about since playacting with her father. Of course, it’s twice as irritating that he’s incredibly tall and unfairly handsome. After ten years of hard work and earning her way, she’s frustrated as she feels Dominic undermining her at every turn. Dominic is the new station darling, particularly favored by their boss, Kent, and it makes Shay absolutely nuts. He’s fresh out of graduate school, flush with success and full of the kind of hot air only a first-class education can provide. An internship at her local public radio station, PPR, helped pull Shay out of her grief, and find a purpose – and ten years later, Shay is producing her own show, content with her work… until Dominic Yun gets hired. It’s also a big part of the bond she had with her father, who died when she was in her late teens. Shay Goldstein lives and breathes public radio – she loves connecting with people and telling their stories. I initially picked it up because I love fake-dating tropes and podcasts, and I was not disappointed. It’s an amazing rivals-to-lovers romance, with some serious depth and intense emotional range. The Ex Talk is a contemporary romance about a woman on the brink of thirty, trying to figure out how to fulfil her career aspirations without killing one of her unfairly hot coworkers or being way too dishonest.

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