I should have hated this. Illustrated cover, single POV, a quirky heroine dumped by her fiancé, and the slowest slow burn that ever slow burned with her new roommate…

But I kinda loved it? 

This was a book lovers book (complete with love interest walking in on her listening to a sex scene in her audiobook, sans headphones 😆). The premise was fun. Our heroine was trying to manufacture a second chance romance by re-dating all her exes. Her new hot fireman roommate was helping her and they were feeling feelings in the sweetest, most heart-squeezy way 🥰🥰

Loved the characterization of our heroine Tara. She was a bookstagrammer (and you could tell the author had been a bookstagrammer too), a hopeless romantic, extraverted, and... just generally nuts 😆

Also, I’m rarely feeling the comedy in a rom-com. But here, I was genuinely laughing out loud. The heroine’s self-deprecating humour, the goofy situations she got into, and the adorable banter with her roommate Trevor was all so great.

This felt unputdownable while I was reading. And I was getting such five star vibes! But a ‘just okay’ ending knocked it down to a four. The combination of single POV and our clammed-up piner hero made the declarations from him at the end feel a tad abrupt. And maybe I don’t like single POV books where the non-POV character also has a character arc? I wish we’d had more of a front row seat to Trevor’s growth, and weren’t just told about it after the fact.

Still, this was adorable!