Dream State by Eric Puchner: book review

Dream State by Eric Puchner (Out February 18) Thank you to Doubleday for sending me an ARC of this book so I can bring you this early review! Opinions all my own. Overview: Cece finds herself as the point of a love triangle on her wedding day. Having gone to Montana a month early, without her fiancé, to plan the wedding, she finds herself falling into an enemies to lover's romance with her fiancé's best friend. The book starts right before the wedding in 2004 and charts Garrett, Charlie, and CeCe's lives and unlikely friendship through to their deaths—from finding careers to raising kids to growing old and watching the planet deteriorate around them, this is the most holistic look at a set of characters I've seen. Overall: 4 Characters: 4 The dynamics here are interesting, but there's a certain lack of depth to these characters where they struggle to move beyond being archetypes with little quirks. Their relationships, overall, are what drive the book, but they co...