i got an arc from netgalley and the publisher!!! 

i’m having a hard time articulating my feelings about this book. overall, it was good, but i feel like there were certain details that kept it from being great for me. first of all, i like the cover, but i dont know if it fits the book imo. i was invested in the mystery, but i wasn’t sure about salem’s character. i had unresolved feelings about her. i also had some unresolved feelings about jess and teagan’s relationship. i know it would have been unrealistic for everything to be perfect at the end, but not having everything tied up with a perfect bow is not what i want from a romance! i appreciated the more serious aspects, mostly, like the discussion of bipolar, and how jess raised teagan. i also appreciated the lack of a baby and marriage in the epilogue. one thing i did want from the ending, though, was for the third act conflict to revolve around the mystery rather than the relationship. i would have preferred that.