I seem to be a sucker for a good rom-com, because this Ana Huang's love letter to those kept me in it's hold completely. I love the slow burn of Sloane' and Xavier's romance, them slowly peeling off layers of facade to let the other one know the real person behind. I also love that Xavier is

the first one to acknowledge his feelings and act on them

; this just makes their chemistry all the more juicier.

Even though there are cliché rom-com tropes throughout the book, the characters themselves feel original and whole persons with their own, complete lives and  thoughts. They both process through their personal struggles and fight their demons, and they take into account what the other one needs or wants. They both have their own life goals outside of a relationship, and they put effort into achieving them. This makes, simply put, the characters and their relationship feel real: the new relationship isn't the only meaningful thing in their lives.

Sloane and Xavier might just be my favorite couple of Ana Huang's, from the books of hers I've read so far. They seem equal to each other in their standing in the relationship, and even in the spiteful beginnings of their professional relationship to the more personal one as of late, they just build each other up when it really counts.