This book is almost as much a love letter to Hallmark movies as it is a romance novel. There were a lot of Hallmark-specific tropes and sort of a breaking of the fourth wall. The story itself moves slowly and the romance is only part of the plot, not the entire story. I found Finn's character arc a bit confusing to me. I really liked him in the beginning, but once his issues with his father are revealed I thought he became almost narcissistic. I felt gross reading the way he spoke back to Adi, and nothing in the rest of the story made me feel like his words/actions should have been forgiven. Since the book is only from Adi's POV, we didn't see the journey he went on to get to forgiveness, and instead we read about Adi feeling bad for standing up for herself and an abuser. I just couldn't get behind that. That being said, the whole section with the grand gestures had me swoony and my heart all aflutter.

Thank you to Netgalley for the early reader copy of this book.