I kept seeing this book around Instagram, and I'm so glad I finally picked it up! Charlie is the latest contestant on the dating show Ever After, hoping to rebuild his public image after an incident at his tech company. Dev is a producer for the show--and assigned to make Charlie more likable. What they don't expect is to fall for each other.

Right from the beginning, there is great mental health rep in this book. Charlie has OCD and a panic disorder, and Dev struggles with depression. Both of these are integral to the plot, and neither Charlie or Dev try to fix each other. They both have honest conversations about it, and the overall mental health representation felt real and authentic. Honestly, to have this in a romance is great because I don't think it's seen very often.

There were also a lot of great discussions about sexuality, specifically asexuality. For a good majority of the book, Charlie is trying to figure out where he fits on the asexuality specturm, and he has some great conversations with other characters about this. I loved the message that you don't have to have everything figured out right away, becuase some people do and some people don't. As someone who doesn't have it 100% figured out, I might have appreciated this aspect of the book the most. For this reason, I also might have to purchase this book eventually.

There was also great character development, and the side characters get a lot of this as well. They aren't left in the dust. They create this lovely little kind of found family, which is definitely one of my favorite tropes.

I do want to say, Dev is Indian American, but for the most part, this isn't mentioned much, and personally, I didn't feel like his culture was done justice. For further disucssion on that, I definitely recommend checking out Chaitanya Srivastava's Review, which delves into some of the issues surrounding this. Issues that I haven't seen mentioned much in other reviews, but I think they're important to discussion, especially when there is a white author writing a person of color.

All in all, this book hit a lot of points for me in a comfort read, and I think it's one I might have to keep around.