I am a very simple creature. You tell me a story is gay and has fake dating and they were roommates and I'm on board almost immediately. 

I was so excited to pull this arc out of a box and I started reading it within an hour and didn't want to stop. Neil and Wyatt are just incredibly opposite (grumpy/sunshine!!) and I adored them going from enjoying annoying one another to friends to more. Neil is a prickly little thing, and I loved reading through his POV. Especially in a few instances where he'd done or said something rude or uncomfortable, seeing Neil work through it was just really well done. That does not mean it's not frustrating as hell sometimes (he's SO CLOSE to getting it SO MANY times), but the journey is there and really nice to see Neil go through. 

Wyatt, however has never done a thing wrong in their life and I adore them. I really love the way Wyatt is just themselves throughout this whole book, never wavering even when Neil is being Neil and trying to push them away. There is a lot here with both Neil and Wyatt figuring things out and working through their stuff and I just really love this story. My heart felt full and happy when I finished, and I don't know what more you could ask for in a story. Definitely a new favorite for me!

TWs from the author's website for this book include: Underage Drinking, Mentions of Neglectful Parenting, Light Mentions of Surgery, Transphobia, Homophobia, Indirect Dead Naming (Neil is dead named but the dead name is never mentioned on page and simply alluded to)