3.5 stars

Lyric and Kian are graduate students, roommates, and best friends. Lyric’s research is studying the Sizzle Paradox, gauging the connection between couples. She’s struggling to crack it for herself, and when Kian decides to help her, it starts our longtime friends-to-lovers storyline.

These two are clearly meant to be together and obviously resist it for the majority of the book. When they do finally get together, the circumstances are really well-written to make very cute scenes. I’m not quite sure why Lyric was struggling so much to finish her thesis and why she made some decisions that she did toward the end of the book. These parts were a little frustrating. Lyric and Kian’s lack of communication was also a little much because they were friends for so long and could read each other really well, until they became attracted to each other. This was a quick and cute read!

Read if you like:
- Going to Target with your besties
- Fake dating and friends-to-lovers tropes
- The graduate school setting

Thanks to St. Martin’s Griffin for the copy of this book.