tessa bailey you had one job. i don't even know why i mentally rated this about 3 stars when i started it. or why i finished reading it in the first place. i guess it was doing ok as a pastime read but then it became unbearable?? like,, everything about it???? not that i expect much of contemporary romances featuring straight couples (why do they always have to be more than 300 pages long and feel like they could be 150 pages less without the shitty plot lines and self help book writing), and i only read them when im looking for a specific trope or concept, but damn . this was bad 🥴