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nearing 3.5 just cause the last 100/150 pages had me hooked. but omg, the dialogue was just not it, had me cringing at everything the main character was saying and her jokes weren’t funny and i swear if i heard ocean blue eyes one more time i would’ve ripped out all the pages of this book. but honestly all the stars go to aaron and the front cover :)

harasnicole's review against another edition

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I can't with Lina. She is the most annoyingly insufferable character that I have ever had the displeasure of reading. Also, her disordered eating lasting for, like, three days and being "cured" by the love interest being angry at her and essentially telling her that she's "perfect as she is?" That is so misinformed, like bffr.

Also, also: the number of times it's said that Aaron's eyes are all kinds of blue. Thanks, could've sworn they were purple.

Also, also, also: 6'4" Is tall, but it's not gargantuan. But with a FMC who's an itty-bitty tiny little thing, I guess he would look like he's 9'4", according to the author.

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morgan1805's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

miavitula's review against another edition

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3.0

I really wanted to enjoy this book & had huge expectations. The main female character was so oblivious and ignorant and stupid. Aaron didn’t deserve her and she continued to be so hateful towards him despite all of the obvious hints he was in love with her. Booktok hyped this up, like it def had potential but the characters were so blah

kjthenerd3's review against another edition

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5.0

I could not stop reading this book. Absolutely bawled at the end, but 10/10 would recommend. It really reminds me of The Hating Game by Sally Thorne, but it’s still original and different. Now I just need to find me an Aaron Blackford!

widdershins3853's review against another edition

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3.0

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Blue eyes do not change color with your mood!!! Why is this so prevalent in romance books?

I'm a little disappointed that this hasn't been as good as I was hoping, because I felt like breaking out of my fantasy circle and trying some books lighter in tone. I feel like in the fantasy books I've read, we (the audience) see a number of terse interactions as the tension builds up in an enemies-to-lovers. In the romcom books I'm reading, it feels like it follows a very standard recipe: it's rivals-to-lovers in a workplace (fine with that) and the narrator starts with the impression that one of her male coworkers hates her, based on a number of interactions in the past which we never saw, including one of which was the love interest telling a supervisor that he didn't want to work directly with her on a work project, and this is invariably actually because he's secretly in love with her. (this is the part I find annoying.)

My prediction: one of the things up for auction is a date with Aaron, and that's why he's bringing a date; he didn't really want to do this and wants the bidders to think of hime as taken so that the date doesn't end up feeling overly flirty.

Male coworker unsupportive at work, main character had a bad experience dating her professor in the past, then male coworker becomes her boss (which would be similar to the dating-her-professor situation, among other things . . . this does not sound like a good recipe.

"Get back to work Catalina. We will continue this conversation." This does not mix with romance!!!!!!

thought: compared with YA fantasy, realist New Adult+ romances have the love interest acting as a caretaker in a gendered way really often

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