UM EXCUSE ME, MY HEART!! I 10000% understand the hype of this because oh my god, I love Shane & Ilya so freaking much it’s insane!! 🥰 like I’m so tempted to just skip to The Long Game right now but I’m determined to read this series in order 😅 I just like don’t even have words for how good this book was. It was rivals to lovers at its finest and I honestly don’t know if anyone will ever compare for me the same way now. The journey these two took was fun and scary and hot and emotional and beautiful and heart wrenching and just everything! The way they went from rivals to reluctant hook ups to enthusiastic hook ups to friends to falling completely in love with each other is unmatched! Honestly a lot of their relationship journey and the way reading about them made me feel was very similar to Alex & Henry (in a very different way) but they have a very similar extraordinariness to them that just makes it impossible for you not to fall completely in love with them. Anyway, I’m gonna stop rambling now but I loved this book and I’m so so excited (and nervous) to get back to their story in The Long Game when I get to it 🥰