okay so this took me a while to finish because of... the incident... iykyk but I'm having trouble rating this one. partially because I'm besties with one of the authors (she responded to my dm one time jk two times) and because I enjoyed this but I just didn't feel gripped enough by it. like it was a fine enough story but I didn't feel like I NEEDED to be reading this book like I had with the roughest draft (their other book). also I found Eliza's side plot conflict to be not that compelling or fleshed out. despite the above, I this was still a pleasant read even though it didn't blow my mind or anything. also this gets points for being the first book that I've read where they were at the hotel and book one bed and then the person at the hotel is like "um, no we have you booked for two rooms" and I can enjoy the comedy of flipping the "and there was only one bed trope" hahahhaha 3.25 stars