Finished with college, no boyfriend, and no job, twenty two year old Jasmine Tran is just trying to get by. She works at her parent’s Donut shop after finishing college and is trying to sort out her life post college. She feels like her days are slipping by and her parents are not letting her live the fact that she doesn’t have a boyfriend or an actual job down. One day she suddenly is set up on a blind date by her best friend with a guy she had a crush on once, and that guy is Alex Lai. Alex is perfect: he’s handsome, sweet, successful, and he’s Chinese, which her parents would approve of. The thing is, he might be a little too perfect and after a disastrous dinner with the parents, Alex and Jasmine find out that neither is as perfect as the other thought. On top of all of this her parent’s store is close to going under and she has to find a way to help keep the store running and navigate an ex who has just reappeared in her life. Romance drama, family drama, and the pains of trying to adjust to adult life post college all come together in this story of a girl who is just trying to live up to her parents expectations and get by. First things first, Jasmine was a really relatable character, her struggles with trying to please her parents and struggling with the difficulties of being in your twenties and trying to find her place. I could see a lot of myself in her difficulties and her relationship with her family. The biggest thing for me from this book was her relationship with Alex. While Jasmine does do a lot of online stalking and then there was the incident

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she uses her job to get his information and phone number and call him

, Alex does a lot more questionable red flag things

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he comes into her room and goes through her stuff without her permission, he changes her laptop settings and preferences without her knowing, he lies to his mom about her and has a lot of insecurities and jealousy issues despite not talking about his own ex though, yet his insecurities stem from the fact that his ex cheated on him

. I really enjoyed the story aspect of seeing Jasmine grow and her relationship with her family grow too.

*Thanks Netgalley and Avon and Harper Voyager/ Harper Collins Voyager for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*