When taken as a whole, I  liked this book. I liked that Nareh is so messy, that the crux of the book revolves around her embracing her whole self as the descendant of the survivors of genocide, as a queer woman, as an adult struggling to be her whole self. I thought labeling it as a romcom was a bit misleading, as there just weren't a lot of laugh-out-loud moments and it was a lot more tense given the pressure Nareh was under. 

My main issues with this book was that Nareh was honestly a little too adorkable at times for my tastes, some of the asides were just silly (for example there's a whole paragraph where Nareh learns that Erebuni is a whole 4 years older than her but she reassures the readers that this ~giant~ age gap is totally fine and I can't imagine anyone but the most TikTok-rotted brain thinking a 28-year-old dating a 31-year-old is problematic), and honestly Erebuni was almost too put together for my tastes. She's not an unrealistic love interest, she just reads like someone who's incredibly well-adjusted and is just real healthy and there's just not a lot of room for growth on her part because she's already good. If I'm being honest, Erebuni was such a catch and like sound in her identity that I was a little baffled that she would take Nareh back after all the bullshit she pulls.