this was fun, funny and quirky in a realistic way. 

it reminded me quite a bit of “bridget jones diaries” in the quirky, bumbling but funny and at the same time realistically clueless behavior of the characters. 
also the friendships in this reminded me A LOT of the group in the movie, how the treated, teased but loved each other and were always up to support each other when needed but complain and tease the entire time while doing so. 

i enjoyed the writing style and enjoyed the characters and how realistically messy they were. 

the banter and sarcasm and snark was utterly entertaining and for me that was the best part of the story in combination with the friendships and how they treated each other.

i also enjoyed that there was a fantastic relationship between a mom and her son in this that i loved seeing since sadly good relationships between children and their parents especially in ya and adult books are rare to find. 
it was in no way the focus of the story but i still enjoyed their relationship a lot. 

i also liked that this book showed realistically how adults struggled -being unhappily happy with their jobs or having general trouble with it sometimes. how it’s hard to find time to do everything that needs to be done or how sometimes things that happen make a person enter self-preservation mode and do and be someone that might not be exactly who they are typically. 

it’s just nice to see realistic portray of adults in their late twenties early thirties

also the utterly stupidity of some of the characters that are at the same time utterly ridiculous and realistic how for example Alex seemed to have the same capacity to remember anything as well as a sink without a stoppet holds water. 
they were written in such a fun but not cruel way that they were entertaining to read.


i didn’t love all the bits with the rockstar dad. i get way they were in the book but i honestly think those pages could have been cut out, made the book unter 400 pages and be a tiny bit better and less dramatic in a small aspect that to me seemed utterly unnecessary especially with how that ended up. 


also the trope of how the last 50-100 pages of this book went… i don’t hate it but too many romance books do it and honestly i wish that it wouldn’t be done as much and in such unnecessary ways as it was in this book 

we all knew that those two would be getting together again. so why do the white spiel with the break up? especially since the entire scene before the morning after breakup made quite clear that those two could be adults about working it out and showed that they learned to communicate with each other. so why show us all that and then do the big breakup? just to fill those pages and make this dramatically overdone scene of getting back together?! this book could have just shown how they work through the insecurities instead they would have been a lot more interesting and more fitting with how the characters developed up to that point.

overall this was a nice romance and i enjoyed it a lot. 
and i do know that i will be rereading this again since i enjoyed most of this a lot.

i would defiantly recommend it for anyone looking for a good m/m romance, great friendships and a nice amount of sarcastic snark and funny little bits of banter.