I found the pacing of this book to be particularly irritating. The two leads have been best friends for years. The male lead particularly has been in love with the female love interest for a very long time. Most of the conflict in the story is due to miscommunication, but it persists throughout the entire book. I don't mind some minor miscommunication in stories like this as long as it doesn't last the entire length of the story. People in real life have trouble communicating all the time even in already established relationships. I don't think that is unrealistic. In this story in particular I just found it irritating. There are no sex scenes in the entire book and the couple essentially doesn't get together until the very end. I think I just felt that the level of conflict the couple had was not balanced out by the amount of time we spent with them as a couple. The lack of sex scenes isn't what bothered me, it was just the lack of payoff after all that grueling pining from both love interests. I might give this author another try in the future, but so far I was disappointed.