This was fun. Flawed, but to be honest, I didn't hate anyone and I wanted the two main characters to end up together, so I'll consider that a win. If a romance novel accomplishes that much, I'm probably going to rate it at least three stars. But onto the negatives.

Too many miscommunications and random fights that were resolved too quickly. I'm totally fine with main characters fighting. People fight. But there were so many fights over literally nothing, fights that didn't even require a conversation to resolve. Like why even bother? Especially for a book as short as this.

This is a minor spoiler so I'll tag it, but to be honest, I don't think it's that big of a deal. Essentially, when Aubrey was younger she drove drunk one night and got into a car accident that killed her sister, who was a passenger in the car. She has no memories of the night, only what her sister's boyfriend (and later her boyfriend) told her. He is also an asshole extraordinaire.

Spoiler

Apparently, he was hitting on Aubrey that night and his distracting her contributed toward the crash. For some reason she thinks this absolves her in some way? Like she was still driving drunk, I don't understand how this changes anything, except the guy being an asshole.But she feels way less guilty over the crash after this revelation, which rubbed me the wrong way.

There's a lot of sex. Like a lot. And graphic. Which is not my thing. Although, I don't really mind because I just skim through it. But with how short this book is anyway, the amount of sex felt like it took precedence over the story and character development.

I was also super uncomfortable by the fact that the first time they have any sort of sexual encounter, Aubrey is completely wasted. Lex stops at a point, not wanting to be a rapist, but that point was already way too far. He even comments on the fact that it's super questionable so many people (his driver, hotel employees) saw him take a wasted, stumbling girl with no shoes up to his hotel room without saying anything, but he was glad because it served his purposes. Yikes.

I may have just talked myself into rating this two stars. I honestly can't think of anything positive to say, except I did want them to end up together, which seems like more the bare minimum than anything.