I actually really enjoyed the first half of the book. It’s when max became a creepy possessive stalker that I got turned off. He’s almost 40 and determined to manipulate a woman he knew ten years previously? It just didn’t feel like the character that the book started with. Lennix likewise was harder to like the second half. Her stubborn conviction that he lied and she hated him got contrived, even though she was right, and it ended up feeling dramatic. And the ending was just too much for me. There’s cliffhangers, and there’s sequel-bait, and this felt too quick to be worth it.