“I’ve loved you for ages, Dani. I’ve just been waiting for you to catch up.”

Ezra, how does it feel to carry the entire book on your shoulders??

Ezra was amazing. Ezra is the reason this rating isn’t like 2 stars.

3.5 stars

“I want to touch you and make you realize that all I ever think about is touching you, that sometimes it’s the only thing that gets me through the day.”

So, I guess to start, I went into this thinking there would be some great tension, rival lawyers fighting on either side of cases. That screams tension. Give me! But you know, they were already hooking up so there was zero tension. Ezra basically says he’d date her, and Dani saying, “but I hate him” blah blah. They literally had sex on page one. That’s the opposite of rivals-to-lovers tension I want.

Dani. What a fucking spoiled little brat. Her entire personality focused on the fact that she was so angry, for the last like 15 years that her parents divorced and remained best friends. That her “whole life was a lie” and “she’ll never trust again.” I’m sorry?? On what fucking privileged planet do you live on? Grow the fuck up. I wanted to strangle her so much. You don’t have an actual problem, this isn’t an actual issue. Does Lana hate women?

“I came over here because seeing you was the only thing in the world that I could think of that might make this day less of a goddamned nightmare.”

Also, I dunno if Dani was supposed to be written as good at her job but she was a literal idiot. Every single thing caught her off guard during the case, what a horrible lawyer with no poker face. And she’d just freeze each time, be overwhelmed, but Ezra was a calm and collected cucumber, so I ask again, does Lana hate women? None of the FMCs I've read have been written well by her.

You know, I hate the 1-D friends that are always featured in books like these. They all pretty much have the same voice, no substance, and exist only to comfort or tell off the FMC in some sassy way.

Most of my quotes are from Ezra. I think that says something. I have more but honestly, I don’t want to think about this anymore.

I think maybe I’m done with Lana’s books for now. I've read 3 and I haven’t really loved, or even really liked, any of them.

Thank you so much to Berkley for this ARC! I literally never get approvals from them and this is probably the last I’ll get because I basically tore it to shreds. *sobs*