i had high hopes at the beginning of this book, thinking that it would be a lovely and hilarious best friend's brother + grumpy/sunshine romance. after learning that the bulk of the plot would revolve around the fmc making tiktoks about her exes, i still continued, despite that being my first warning sign.

so much of this book felt underdeveloped. aside from the main characters, everyone else felt one dimensional and almost caricatures instead of real people. there was no build-up to their romance, it felt like they 'liked each other' very soon, but where was the evidence? where was the tension? a one bed trope is very clearly used, particularly because the fmc is a romance writer, and they skip to the next day, when this could've obviously been used to build tension between them! also the smut was very telling and not showing, it felt like it was over the second it had began and the emotional intimacy was lacking.

what was written well was both mc's vulnerabilities, and how they affected the growth of their relationship. however, i felt that the mmc dash had more depth than sophie, the fmc, with a more compelling and emotionally raw story arc. i wished we went more into sophie's burnout and her relationship insecurities, instead she seemed kind of self-absorbed? she leaked to the press about her sister's problems with conceiving and then is the one who's hurt that her sister doesn't tell her right away that she's pregnant? and the fact that she constantly thought she was better than all her exes only for them to remind her that she was the one who broke up with them or that she was the one who treated them badly. 

a disappointing book but that's what i get for trying to put off reading my other current read.