What an unnecessary, messy start to what could have just been a mild-spicy, wholesome journey. Scarlett and Lukas had such sweet moments, but let the situation with Penelope be this dark cloud that just made it hard to root for them most of the book. Both Scarlett and Lukas enabled Pen and thus are their own villains, though hahaha Yet again Ali, my girl's girl author, writes a character who has TERRIBLE friendships. Lukas was really tasked with dealing with two delulus as best as he could. A Swedish king😍 Glad he got his happy ending!