The Dinner List and Martinis

Ok guys for my first book review on my new fancy blog I will be talking about The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle. This was a fun and easy book with relateable characters who sometimes drove me totally fucking crazy.
In The Dinner List Sabrina arrives for her 30th birthday dinner to find all of the people she put on her 'if you could have dinner with anyone living or dead' list. This includes her best friend, her old professor, her ex boyfriend, her dead father, and Audrey Hepburn. Throughout the night we learn why each of these people is important to her. Most of the story revolves around her relationship with her ex boyfriend. Sabrina and Tobias' on and off again relationship unfolds mostly from her point of view but because of this mystery dinner we also get to hear from her best friend Jessica and Tobias himself. Sabrina is a flawed romantic but supremely real. I think we have all known or been people like Sabrina, Jessica and Tobias, maybe not Audrey Hepburn though!
Sabrina and Tobias are head over heels for each other for most of their relationship, ignoring tons of red flags and ignoring how their sometimes tumultuous relationship affects the people around them. In general I am not a fan of anyone's boyfriend (men are trash) and there were times where I wanted to jump into the book and strangle Sabrina.
Jessica apparently felt the same way I did and got the opportunity to tell her at the dinner. One of the big themes of this book is saying things you never got a chance to say. Sabrina's dad was an alcoholic that abandoned her and her mom when she was a kid. Sabrina never got the chance to confront him or talk to him about his addiction before he died. A lot has gone unsaid between Jessica and Sabrina too, mostly about Sabrina's relationship but also about Sabrina feeling abandoned after Jessica got married and had a baby. That feeling definitely resonates with me especially as I get older and people I know have started to get married and have children on purpose (yikes).
As an Audrey Hepburn fan myself I really appreciate the amount of research and detail that Rebecca Serle put into creating her Audrey Hepburn character. The book requires some suspension of disbelief but in the best way!
There is a bit of a twist towards the end of this book that I definitely didn't see coming but I won't spoil it here I promise. Despite the fact that Sabrina was having dinner with a few dead people this book still was completely relatable for me. It covers some heavy topics but remains a pretty lighthearted and positive book.
So if you could have dinner with five people living or dead who would you choose? My list changes almost every day but for now I have to say Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, Emily Brontë, Billie Holiday, and Michelle Obama.
Now as far as drinks go, I feel like with this book it has to be a martini. A gin martini obviously because vodka martinis are a fucking joke. I personally like mine with one olive, but not dirty because that's just way too much salt for me. For a dinner with Audrey Hepburn is there really any other choice but a martini?