The alchemy of a KJC novel is in how she will take two absolutely average people and make it swoon city by the end. It's remarkable. Every single time she starts us off with "here's a guy you would literally never remember after you saw him, he is average height and average build and his eyes are kind of gray and he wears pretty average clothes that look a little old if I'm honest and he isn't very confident you know and he also doesn't have a lot of friends or hobbies or anything he's particularly good at" and then at about the 50% mark the other character is ready to take a bullet or a long sword for him and honestly that tracks because this guy is pure gold and I take back every average thing I ever said about him.

Anyways, this is that, again, and it never gets old, and I loved these two softhearted fools and all the ways they explore intimacy and partnership. Lovely.