I am surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. The first book in the series, Come Back To Me, was enjoyable but I had several issues with it. This book had so much of the content I wish I'd seen in the first book, only with different characters.

I appreciated the PTSD rep, as a person who has loved ones who have suffered from it. I liked the fact that the majority of this book chronicles the struggles of several people to cope with the things that happened to them and the guilt they feel. The journey of recovery wasn't something that happened off-page, and I really liked that about this book.

I liked Didi and Walker, although I felt like Didi's character felt different to me than she did in the first book. I get that she is a few years older, but in the first book it felt like she was being written as a party-girl type. Then in this book we find out that she'd actually only had intimate relations with three different men throughout her life.
I like that they take their time in this book. This didn't feel like insta-love at all to me. I think we had to wait until page 200 or so for the first kiss.

The side characters in this book felt much more real to me than they did in the first book. They were interesting and flawed and three-dimensional, which was not the case with the first book.

The one big negative I have with this book is the way makeup and girls who wear makeup are portrayed. This actually goes back to the first book as well.
In Come Back To Me, Kit has an inner dialogue about how Didi is always wearing a bunch of makeup and how he prefers the way Jessa looks with her fresh, clean face. In this book, there is a whole passage where Didi talks about how she wants to limit the makeup she's wearing because guys always catcall at her when she's wearing makeup but when she's fresh-faced they don't. According to her, they also take her more seriously. It's just a weird hang-up that both of these books had. I don't know if the author herself is trying to assert some sort of opinion through her characters, but it does feel a little heavy-handed. Also, why on Earth should a girl feel like she has to change something about herself so a bunch of men won't act like misogynistic assholes? I would've loved a scene where Didi realizes that she likes putting on makeup and feeling pretty and calls out the first jerk to come on to her.

I also didn't feel like the celebrity boyfriend character was necessary in the slightest. He really added nothing to the story whatsoever.

I also thought the dialogue was far less cheesy and stilted. It actually felt like conversations real people in their early twenties might have. The inner dialogue was also a step up from the first book.

To sum up, if you liked the first book I think you would like this one even more. If you didn't like the first book, I felt like many of the issues from that book were not present in this one and if the story sounds intriguing you should give it a shot.