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Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic friendship
Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse
I found myself relating to this FMC more than her others. The banter in this book is A+, and the secret relationship trope is one of my favorites. My biggest con would be the lack of information/general education that should be included when a D/s dynamic is present.
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Bullying, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Abandonment
Minor: Drug use, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol
Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
I’m really supposed to root for someone who emotionally cheated during a large part of their previous relationship, and wasn’t even the one to break it up??? May this love never find me.
#bringbackgoodmeninromcoms2025
Graphic: Toxic friendship
Moderate: Infidelity
Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual content
Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Death of parent
However, I adored the characters so much. Any time I thought of an excuse to drop the rating, I realized how it was actually a dumb reason and can't count as a negative because it was [insert reason].
The MMC is an adorable Swedish man who is caring and patient towards the FMC. Ali Hazelwood keeps up her science-themed romances, and in a year where I'm focusing on learning languages, it was fun to have a second culture added into the mix.
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Grief
Moderate: Bullying, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Alcohol
Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent
Graphic: Toxic friendship
Moderate: Child abuse
Overall- this whole story felt trite. And forced.
I liked the roommate the best. Who was literally barely in the book.
The self loathing seemed over done by…. A lot. And it did not feel warranted.
It was all overdone and flat at the same time.
The spice level is highish but still wasn’t a huge fan. She used the C word aggressively and in a romcom it’s not my vibe and I was eye-rolling hard.
I have so many negative feelings about this book that it’s hard to narrow them down and make sense of them all.
The pace was weird and again, the characters just felt bleh?
I’m just annoyed because her other books have been 4-5 stars…. So I don’t know what happened but I am disappointed.
The BEST part is that this book is set in the same world as Love Hypothesis and you get to have a little bit of Dr. Adam Carlson again.
Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Toxic friendship