Thank you so much to NetGalley, Ashley King, and City Owl Press for the opportunity to receive a digital ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion and review!

I don't take this opportunity lightly, and as much as I would love to give every book I read a 5 star review, sometimes I just can't. I wanted to like this book - a HEA rom com featuring a tennis pro and a single parent with a charming 8 year old? I honestly didn't think it could possibly miss the mark for me.

Overall this book was fine. There were things I disliked about it (I think King and I have different ideas of how "donned" should be used in a sentence, and most of the conversations between Simone and Alex didn't feel realistic and authentic to me), but there were also things I did like about it (the tennis aspect, the relationship Simone has with her sister, the found family Alex ended up with). They all kind of shook out in the wash.

While it was romantically a slow burn, it definitely wasn't in terms of the lust aspect. Other reviewers have mentioned how much they loved the tension between the characters,

but I didn't feel much tension - each time they were together, they acted on their attraction to one another??

I do genuinely think there are people out there who will love this book, I just didn't end up being one of them.