I've been in a bit of a Romance slump, so I was happy to start this book and have no idea where it was going. This was a title suggested in a queer romance list, and I didn't read anything more about it before I checked it out, so the Armenian rep was unexpected and great! It was nice to not know from the beginning who Nareh was going to end up with. The crush at the start was so well done, it took me right into those butterfly feelings. The toxic workplace literally gave me stress-dreams, so also very relatably done haha 
Also relatable, beautiful, and unexpected was how Nar struggled with the memory of her father, and especially the things her family lost to his (understandable but heartbreaking) obsession with assimilating. 

However... the last 1/3 of this book was exactly what put me in a Romance slump in the first place. While some third-act breakups are unnecessary but easily forgivable, this one left me questioning if Nareh was mature enough for a serious relationship. Jumping from 5 years with someone else, no matter how mismatched they were, to love with someone new felt wrong. Triple that feeling with her lack of communication skills.

She should have told Erebuni about her almost-engagement, and Erebuni definitely didn't deserve to be framed as a predator. While the longing and butterflies at the start of the book felt great, Nareh's pining at the end was annoying and overwrought. She did terrible things and deserved to feel bad about them, but it seemed like readers were supposed to feel bad for Nareh anyway. Erebuni forgave her way too quickly. It's one thing to not be out yet, but another to throw the person you supposedly love under the bus in front of your entire community. That put a very dark cloud that over their relationship that I couldn't see ever dissipating. 
Overall, the book was trying to do too much. Too many villains: Trevor, Mark, her horrible boss, the homophobic aunties...  If Nar didn't have a boyfriend and it had started with her mom sending her to check out Armenian guys after 5 years of having short-lived relationships, it might have been an easier read. We could have had more of a slow-burn with Erebuni actually having time to become friends before developing into a believable relationship.
I did think some of the heavier conversations were done well, including Armenian ancestry, coming out, to her family, and expectations as a single 20-something woman. However... making out while talking about the genocide made me cringe. The way Nar grew in the way she thought about this part of Armenian history, why turn that important discussion into a make-out session? 
Finally, there is no way I can see how a reporter could publish a piece without approval and still be hired at another outlet. If her boss fired her because he was sexist and xenophobic, that's one thing. But any reporter putting up unvetted stories without approval shouldn't be a reporter imho. Start a blog? Freelance? Her piece after being fired was picked up, so there were other plot options. I enjoyed her work interviewing people within the community, but the conflict at work also felt like it was one of the too many storylines that could have been trimmed.