Everything about this should have made it an automatic five stars, but it was just lacking something. The characters were good, but the plot was a bit boring. There weren’t very high stakes, and the pacing was a bit slow. There were even too many on-the-nose references to Beauty and the Beast for me, which I didn’t think was possible. All of that would have been fine, though, if it weren’t for the cheesy notebook moment at the end. That just solidified the cringe for me and dropped my rating at the very end. Still a cute story, but it needed more.