1.75/5 stars

POPSUGAR CHALLENGE: A book with a sentence as the title

(for those new here, my friend and I are doing the Popsugar 2024 reading challenge, from a numbered list of randomly chosen books we made for each prompt, and then we use a number generator to pick!)

Feeling a long review comingggg

Yeah this was a big no from me. The writing alone in this book gave me headache. The personalities didn't match the spice, the spice was...cringey, the names in this book ?????? Penny, Pacey, Blakely, Halsey, Silas, OC....i have a headache even trying to remember the others. They were so hard to remember who was who, and then on top of that Penny has a child?? A dog?? A something named Holden, which is the name of Halseys brother, but she never really says that or clarifies (at least not to my memory, but i could barely keep up so take it with a grain of salt) and so randomly I could not tell who was who when there are two characters being mentioned under the same name.

I don't think i can even give a synopsis of this book because i couldn't understand the point of what was happening. It was forced proximity, but Blakely just conveniently decided to move in with Halsey after a LOCKER ROOM conversation after conveniently breaking up with her boyfriend and conveniently needing a place to live and halsey conveniently having space– yall get the point lol

Then this book suffers from an unfortunate amount of men written too much in the female voice, and i think Meghan Quinn really struggles to write male POVs. Nothing wrong with this type of tone/voice, but when it doesn't match the described personality of the guy....it kept knocking me out of the book. Like she hid it behind the fact he was a 'cinnamon roll' but it just wasn't quite landing for me. Then Blakely gave bad bihhh energy at first, only for her to kind of just....fizzle into an anxious, overtalker??? I was very confused ngl.

I liked Sherman though. IYKYK LMAOOOOO.