I read this book as part of the PopSugar 2019 reading challenge. It fits the prompt: read a book that you see someone else reading on a tv show/movie.

I am not a fan of this type of romance novel. Instead of being steamy, which I like, this is more blunt and raunchy in its depiction of sex. There is a lot of crude language that doesn't seem to be designed to do anything other than mildly shock the reader. I'm not a prude by any stretch, but the writing in this book lacked subtlety.

The main characters don't actually spend much quality time together aside from the sex scenes, and most of that time entails the female protagonist being completely closed off emotionally because her father was an abusive asshole.

There was an interesting idea for a story here, but the characters lacked depth, and I never felt like the characters earned their romance. Shelby didn't stop self-sabotaging long enough for me to actually enjoy her as a character and I felt like Ty deserved better. Also, the story felt under-developed. There are a lot of plot points thrown together and none of them feel like they do more than scratch the surface.

I don't see myself picking up more from this author in the future. I get that there is definitely a market for this style of book, but I don't think it's for me.