It's hard to rate a book saying that I "liked it" when it didn't make me happy. Is this a necessary book? Yes, I think so. Is the writing good? Yes, I'd say so to that as well. Are the characters well written? Only the main two. Are there some tropes? Absentee parents, double check, among others.

My problem with this book is that it puts Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock into my head and I hear Leonard's voice instead of Theodore's. If I had read this book first, I might have rated it a four star instead of a three. After reading what I have in the past year, I feel like this book would have simply worked better with a friendship instead of a romance. The romance didn't feel real to me, and so the last 30% of the book didn't grab me like it would have otherwise.

Not a bad book, and I don't regret reading it.