If you love second chance romance, black cat x golden retriever energy, and public call outs turning into reluctant dating, Well, Actually is about to be your new fave! 😏🔥

🎤 Eva Kitt is stuck hosting Sausage Talk (yes, it’s as ridiculous as it sounds) instead of living her dream journalism career. But when she goes viral for dragging her college ex, she suddenly finds herself in the spotlight—for better or worse.

👀 Enter Rylie Cooper. Social media’s favorite “reformed good guy” teaching men how to be better partners… except, plot twist: he was actually THE WORST to Eva back in the day. So now, to prove he’s changed, he proposes a deal: a series of dates, documented for his audience, to show how much he’s “grown.”

🔥 The banter? Immaculate.
🔥 The forced proximity? Delicious.
🔥 The tension between loving and loathing? CHEF’S KISS.

What I loved:
✔️ Mazey Eddings’ signature wit & banter – this book sparkles with humor and sass
✔️ Eva’s sharp, take no BS attitude – she’s a black cat to her core 🖤
✔️ The emotional depth – the exploration of growth, accountability, and rediscovering trust was SO well done

🤨 What I struggled with:
🚫 Rylie being too golden retriever at times 
🚫 Some of the “let’s film our dates for the internet” moments felt so cringey  and will soon be out of date and not relevant (but also realistic for influencer culture 💀)
🚫Eva was kind of lowkey a bully at times, like she was SO MEAN 

This is a fun, flirty, and surprisingly deep romance about second chances, self worth, and calling out the past while maybe… falling for it again.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 – because black cat/golden retriever romances own me 😭🐾

Thank you to NetGalley, Mazey Eddings, and St. Martin's Press for the eARC of this book.