Tell Me How You Really Feel by Betty Cayouette is a slow burn second chance romance with a dual timeline and dual POV. This book had a lot of potential, but it just didn't live up to it, and that's how I really feel.

The book follows Maeve and Finn who are trying to navigate Finn's truly incredible f-up after signing a multi-million dollar deal with a Spotify-like streaming service for their Call Her Daddy-like podcast. For context, the f-up was that Finn calls Maeve while they are "on a break" to ask her for permission to date "the one that got away." Then in the middle of the book it is revealed that

he is getting paid more for the podcast she created and edits while he is comic relief.

While he does apologize and seems sincere in both instances, I think that his f-ups are too big to be looked past so I didn't like him. 

I think we started where the third act should have been and then the entire second conflict of the book should not have existed. I would have been less likely to absolutely hate Finn if we weren't fed how he's just a chill guy who doesn't realize when he messes up. Another thing that was weird was that I think it just regurgitates therapy concepts but neither of the main characters use any of it. On the bright side I thought that that the family scenes for both of them were sweet. I also enjoyed their friendship when they were just being people not falling in love. Sadly, I don't know who I would recommend this book to. 

Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press | St. Martin's Griffin, and Betty Cayouette for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.