- Thank you NETGALLY for providing a free ARC copy -

My feelings for this book is complicated.
I mean, with a title like that I'm kind of expecting both romcom vibes and a person who loves animals.

That wasn't really what you got. You got an foul tempered and foul mouthed women who was actually traumatized and used to be a good loving animal lover. 8 years on a zoo planet from hell ruined her. But the thing is, that wasn't really outlined in the beginning. All we got was "greedy corporate zoo doesn't care about their animals"
You slowly got introduced to the depth of her trauma and how ruined she had become from it.

But, as an animal lover myself, seeing the title really set some expectations. And then reading about a woman who doesn't seem to like animals a lot (she constantly swears and talks bad about them), and then there was the incident with the bats where she figured out they were sick and knew how to cure them and just STRAIGHT UP DIDN'T TELL ANYBODY. I was furious!

I almost dropped this book so many times in that first 50%, the only reason I didn't was because it was an ARC read.

In the end, I'm happy I did finish it. I'd even read the sequel. It got a little better after the 50% and the last 20% was really pure perfection. I got teary eyed twice!

But really, the title. I cannot underline my disappointment enough. This wasn't a light hearted story, it wasn't romcom, it wasn't even very funny. It was a serious story about the desperate lows a desperate (and broken) woman goes to when she's given up all hope and I can see other people will have the same misunderstanding from the title and blurb as me.