Goodreads has Seasonal Challenges, where you have to pick a book off a specific list. I picked this for the May/June 2025 Heritage (Asian/Islander Authors) ribbon. Unfortunately ... ehhh. 

First and foremost, I'm not a fan of 3rd person/Present tense. Unless it's written REALLY well (Fredrick Bachman can do it) it feels awkward, almost like a play ... or written for the screen. Ironic here, right? I was always aware of the present tense, yet the distance of the 3rd person. In audio, they had two narrators, one male one female, for the two MC POVs. That probably was a good thing, but again, felt very unnatural with the 3rd person.  Then there was this really strange switch, a bit of 2nd person? You (Grant "talking" to Helen but not presented as dialog, "You" ... just weird). 

SAYS was said SO MANY times. 1211 ... not taken from the book, just for example
"Hi" he says.
"Hello" she says.
"Are you having a good day?" he says.
"It's fine" she says.
"Glad the sun is out" he says.
"I don't mind the clouds" she says. 
I think the SAYS may have been made even more obvious in the audiobook.  I was so sick of SAYS.

Helen and her parents thinking of Grand as a "murderer" ... oh come on! They should have been bending over backward apologizing to HIM for their selfish daughter/sister jumping in front of his car and scarring him for life!

... and where was this stretch of road, so easily accessible for a pedestrian, where the cars are going 65 mph, and at 2:00 am there are tons of witnesses around to see the accident?

... and once upon a time, maybe I was one to seek out the "sexy scenes" in books. I'm not sure when it changed, or if the writing has changed over the years, to where it's "ewwww" now as everything is described in detail. I do not like "spicy/explicit" and this was well over my limit. 

ProFanity x119

GoodReads challenge fail ... not one I'm glad I was encouraged to read.