I was disappointed in this one. The first two books in the series were so excellent that I was questioning my whole (non-college sports romance liking) identity.

There was some good pining in here, and some heartfelt dialogue. But this third book kinda played itself…
▪️ it was second chance-ish, with no first chance timeline so I was missing the flirty-flirty, on-page falling
▪️ the second chance was hard to read. They were emotionally closed off from each other and shut down any thoughts of why they had liked (or still liked) the other person. So I was just… completely in the dark about if and/or why they liked each other 🤷🏻‍♀️
▪️ it was just one big miscommunication-fest as they withheld a crap-ton of information from each other, literally every single side character, and the reader in their pursuit of staying casual
▪️ we eventually got a hint about their compatibility but unfortunately, not before they exchanged “I love you”s, so when we had the ILY conversation, I was just yelling “but whhhyyy?!” in my head
▪️and then, my pet peeve: we Good Girled a heroine who did not have a praise kink. She was a rebel who didn’t GAF and the teeny tiny bit of pleasing others she tried to do caused her an enormous amount of stress. So, no. We should have been Good Boying him, tbh.