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3.0

Ratings:
Stars: 3/5
Readability: 5/5
Plot: 3/5
Recommend: No

Summary:
Josh and Hazel are worlds apart. Josh is as professional and normal as it gets. Hazel, on the other hand, prefers to be the truest version of her possible, even if it means being "embarrassing." When they reunite after years of being apart, Hazel and Josh become friends, making sure to emphasize that they will not date each other.

What I Liked:
I love how unabashed Hazel was. Good on her (and her mom) for not changing for a man.

The romance was cute, but unoriginal.

What I Didn't Like:
I listened to the audiobook of this, and the female narrator sounded mid-20s, but when the male narrator attempted to enact Hazel's words, he made her sound whiney and around 8 years old.

This was not a slow burn, as I had anticipated. They immediately started liking each other.

The fact that Hazel was the opposite of Tabby. Why did Josh even like Tabby? He mentioned it was the sex, but then, later on, he mentioned how he wasn't the type to be casual, while not having any connection to Tabby?

The convenient
pregnancy
.

That one sex scene where Josh "needed" to come. Um, what? Also the awkwardness of listening to the audiobook narrators making those sounds.

Overall:
There were points where I smiled, but there were too many tropes or bad writing for this to be anything greater than 3 stars.