Thank you so much to Berkley Romance for the complimentary copy of this ebook & free copy of the book!
Thank you so much to PRH Audio for the complimentary ALC!

I will always have a soft spot for Jasmine Guillory as she was the first romance reader I have read and really got me back into reading. I was super excited to be given an advance copy of this one especially knowing she was trying something new with a sapphic romance.

The writing itself was typical Jasmine - fun and flirty! There was banter and of course spice. I loved that she showed the complicated relationship between friends and also making friends as an adult (though it was not done intentionally).

Taylor offered to help Avery flirt through a series of lessons as she was new to dating women. What I would have loved to have seen is Taylor actually going on dates with other women. I think this would have helped fueled jealous in Taylor to make her want to pursue Avery on a relationship level and Avery to realize that Taylor is who she likes. Since Avery was new with dating women, I think this would have been good for her to do and to get comfortable with going out on dates and putting the flirting into practice.

As much as I love the cover, I wish we got to see them more dancing! They only went to one class and I think that could have been a way for them to get close if they went to weekly classes together. Or perhaps that could've been how they met.

"Yeah, you don't know if she was serious, but isn't it better to go and maybe do something fun, rather than stay home out of fear? This is low stakes, it's a gardening class. If it's weird or whatever, you just leave! And I get it, rejection sucks and is scary. But the only thing to make it less scary is to face it over and over."

I really like the quote above as I have learned in my thirties that if I want to do something, I need to just do it even if I'm going to be alone, I cannot let fear dictate that because I could be missing out on something fun and worthwhile. I thought that was so smart of Taylor to give that push to Avery. She made this connection with Beth while attempting to pick her up (she did learn she was in a relationship) and Beth was gracious enough to invite her to this gardening club. Avery went and ended up loving it! And not only that she became pretty good friends with Beth.

I did about 60% of this book in tandem with the ebook and then switched to full audio for the last 40%. Since this book was told from 3rd person, there was only one narrator despite having dual point of views. I thought Heidi Franklin did a pretty good job balancing both perspectives but I wish we did have a 2nd narrator to do the other point of view.

I think my biggest issue of this book was that it felt and was long. I am not sure what could have been taken out but it just seemed like it was going on for a long time and I kept losing interest and not wanting to go back to it.

Overall I did enjoy it and wanted to keep reading to see how they end up together. Looking forward to seeing what Jasmine does next!