Okay this was definitely more twisted than the rest of them. I’m so conflicted about these books, there’s things I like a lot and then there’s things that make me cringe and also things that make my neck hairs stand up straight 🫢

Firstly, let me say that Ana Huang writes chemistry like 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 pro 👏🏼
It drips off the pages, which is the way I like my enemies to lovers 👌🏼

I’m still not a huge fan of the spice in these books, solely because of the degradation thing, it’s just not for me. Apart from that, the spice is written well, just not entirely for my tastes 🤷🏻‍♀️ I do have to mention that I did have a problem with one particular scene, if you’ve read this you know the one 🙄 Josh needed to do a lot more grovelling after that, like Alex Volkov style grovelling, before Jules should’ve even thought about maybe taking him back. It made me go: wtf did I just read, I get that it’s their whole “thing”, they hate each other, but this scene made me feel sick. Also, Josh almost beating a man to death even though he’s a fucking doctor? Hippocrates who? 🙃🫣

I’m often not okay with the way some of the characters act in these books but I also can’t seem to stop reading them. Like, I think Alex is a complete psycho whose possessive behaviour would creep any sane person out, but my favourite scene of this book was when he asked he asked Josh permission to marry Ava and I totally kinda melted into a little puddle because of the cuteness? 🥺 like I said, so many conflicting emotions 😵‍💫🙈

Dishonourable mention: the whole painting subplot, that shit was so far-fetched 😂

Edit: oh and btw! I just noticed every book gets longer and longer! What is that about? The second book was already a 100 pages longer than necessary and this was 500 bloody pages 😬