“i just stare at her, unable to comprehend that i get to have her, that she’s mine, even if only for a moment.”

okay, here’s the deal. i was extremely excited for this book, i saw people loving it and hyping it up, which may have been my first mistake. i don’t influence easily, and i think i should’ve reminded myself of that beforehand, but here we are. 

there are pieces of this book that i definitely liked and enjoyed, which is why i highlighted and tabbed a lot of things, but let’s get into the issues i had with it. first, i felt like the plot was so entirely lost pretty early in. i would have liked to see more background on the main characters, especially about their pasts and how they all came to knew each other. second, serenity has two hobbies which are obsess over her brother’s best friend and paint. she could have been written and developed so much better! archer on the other hand is a billionaire, but i still don’t know what he does career-wise and i read the entire book. the two main characters are very insecure when it comes to their feelings, and i can appreciate overthinking because i do a lot of it, but this kind of overthinking and jumping to conclusions was crazy. 

this book felt very wattpad-esque and i can’t get over it. serenity is a 20 something year old virgin who is hung up on her best friend that started dating their other friend and she’s driven herself crazy with coping with the whole situation. 

all in all, i think there were a lot of plot holes and things that needed to be added, as well as things that could have been left out. if i’m being honest with myself, i’m rating this book on quotes and spice alone because i was lost for a majority of the book as to how we went from zero to one hundred in about twenty pages. 

i’m all for giving authors a second chance, so i will probably check out other books written by catharina maura, but this one was definitely not my cup of tea.