Did I enjoy reading this novel? No. 

Did I enjoy reading this Reylo fanfiction? Yes. 

 

I thought it was a delightful read. I also think that in order to fully enjoy the story, you cannot treat it the same way you would treat a published novel. It’s very very obviously fanfiction. 

 

The relationship between Ava and Nico/Daniel is inappropriate no matter how the author tried to spin it. It’s so sketchy that Nico was attracted to a girl who he thinks is his seventeen-year-old student, and that doesn’t go away just because Ava was actually twenty-four. Ava befriending teengirls seven years younger than her under the pretense of them being the same age is pretty sketchy, too. Of course, Ava only passes for seventeen because she’s such an immature character that it’s hard to even visualize her as a twenty-four-year-old. 

 

My main criticism is that author obviously wanted to write a teacher-student relationship romance but instead of just writing that teacher-student relationship, she turned the plot into a convoluted mess just so she could have the appearance of the teacher-student relationship without any of the consequences. 

 

The epilogue chapters were so unnecessary. I didn’t need to see Ava and Daniel (who have never had one single conversation about their plans for the future) have the marriage/white picket fence/twin babies future in detail to assume that they’re going to be happy together. 

 

Overall there were definitely some fun parts but it was overshadowed by the fact that this just wasn’t a story of publishable quality. The difference between For Love and Bylines and The Love Hypothesis is that while both started their lives as Reylo fanfiction, TLH could stand on its own outside of the fandom space and FLAB couldn't.