A violinist struggling with burnout and speaking her feelings and a designer recovering from testicular cancer and surgery dealing with his body insecurities. Anna Sun is a violinist but is struggling with living up to her fame after a video of her goes viral on youtube. Now she is struggling to even play a full song. She is suffering under the pressure to please people but she can’t speak up, she won’t voice her emotions, she won’t say no, she won’t speak up for herself. The thing that finally motivates her do so is when her boyfriend tells her that they should take a break and be in an open relationship until he is sure he is ready to settle down with her (seriously? and she doesn’t even fight him or anything on this?? girl do better.) . This motivates her to try and go on a date and the first person she goes on one with is tattooed, motorcycle riding Quan Diep. Quan is not looking for anything serious, he just wants to feel back to normal after getting surgery and now he worries about his scars and the fact that he won’t be as good as he used to. Soon these two are having movie dates, comforting each other, and learning to love the other. However things get complicated when Anna’s father gets a stroke and soon she finds herself crumbling under her family’s expectations and the fact that her ex is back and wants to marry her and once again she doesn’t want to displease anyone. She’ll have to choose what she wants to do and if she has the courage to finally speak up for herself. Let me first start off by saying this was a good story yes, but it was beyond frustrating and sad. I felt anger for Anna, she was so unhappy but just kept trying to please everyone even at the risk of her own sanity and feelings, it got to the point where she contemplated suicide. The story is definitely more tragedy than romance, Anna SUFFERS. This book has romance yes, but mostly in the first and last part, but the vast majority is Anna suffering through everything. On one hand you feel for her and her struggles are relatable, on the other hand you just want her to speak up and say NO. As for Quan, he was put on the back burner as supportive boyfriend and I wished there was more focus on him. Overall this was a good book and a great read but PLEASE beware this was an emotionally draining one and it just kinda leaves you feeling a bit traumatized its not a heavy romance book but rather a character journey and definitely a frustrating one at that.