Firstly, I’d like to thank NetGalley and the publisher for giving me a free e-arc of The Only Man.

Darcy and Brian, our two major characters in The Only Man, loathe themselves because they love one another. They detest the fact that no matter what they do, they are always each other's comfort. With a ten-year gap between their last relationship, this is a second chance romance. And like with every second chance romance in collective memory, it ruined me.

The characters and perhaps their relationship were the book's strongest features, but apart than that, I couldn't wait to finish it. I was desperate for it to be over. I can't say the same about the narrative but the characters are so well-developed. As much as I adore second chance romances, the fact that their connection was the main focus of the story irritated me to no end. It didn't really have a compelling narrative other than "Oh, I love him, but he crushed my heart therefore I hate myself for that." It didn't even center on their relationships with their friends, families, or jobs—nothing. Simply put, it appears that the author rushed to complete this in order to meet a deadline and did not have the time to carefully develop the plot (with the fact that the novel is 58 chapters long).