The age old narrative of a young African girl going against the grain of her traditional, high achieving and expectant family in order to find herself and love.

While i liked the story well enough, Angie was too self deprecating and self sabotaging for me to really get behind her feelings. The love interest Ricky, while supremely hot and loved the interracial relationship, he was almost too nice and too clueless for his personality to be a real person. I felt as though he was written simply for this book and not a real depiction of a nice guy but a made up nice guy.
The struggling but nice artist was too much of a trope against the stick in the mud pre med student that i found myself rolling my eyes a few times.

What really irked me was the really frequent descriptions of medical school practices that i cared nothing about. It was really quite boring which was upsetting cause i wanted to skip those parts. The romance was minimal but was still overshadowed by the random interjections of side quests about her friends and exams so it was dragged

Overall it was a cute enough read but didnt leave me with the super cutesy feels afterward.