Well – as far as premises go, this one was pretty contrived. I typically am fairly okay with a contrived story line as long as it is well told. Unfortunately, that was not what I experienced with One Day in December.
The story has a basic take-off point: Girl has bad day, girl gets on packed bus, girl sees boy sitting at bus stop, boy sees girl, neither of them actually get on/off bus to meet the other, girl spends a year looking for boy. Girl finally meets boy at a party and is introduced to boy as friend’s new significant other.
From there, the book has a pretty interesting forbidden romance type appeal, at least initially. They keep denying each other over and over again. They keep finding other people. You practically give up on them because it is taking so long. And then, bam!, out of the blue the story has resolved and there was no time to get used to the fact that it was resolving, it was just over. No epilogue even to try and make you feel like this wasn’t as sudden as it felt.
It felt to me like there needed to be more to make up for the agony of the second half of the book. I won’t say more, just in case it turns out you will really enjoy this book, but I will not say I would be among them. Rating from me: “Meh.”