finally read a romance that I enjoyed this year!!! I'm such a romance girlie and it has been genuinely upsetting to me that I haven't even finished any of the other romance books I tried this year. however this was not without it's issues. the whole book felt like the set up to the actual story if that makes sense, this made their actual relationship seem rushed because it never felt like we were IN the story, it always felt like the beginning if that makes sense. the sex scenes were also... not to my taste, the excessive talking from redford (also why would you name him redford😭😭) was so so cringe to me and I did not enjoy these scenes. I also found this to be quite predictable which isn't always a bad thing especially for romance but I felt like I knew every single thing that was going to happen in this book.

after there was the list I was like oh okay, so they're gonna go camping together and they're gonna have sex for the first time in the tent, there's going to be an epilogue of them going travelling together (and as soon as red mentioned new york i was like the epilogue is going to them travelling to new york together) and the third act conflict is going to be a misunderstanding about the "meaningless sex" part of the of the list. like it's fine that I knew that but the author could have added SOMETHING interesting or some sort of curve ball/twist but alas :/ 

anyway, while there were lots of aspects that I didn't personally enjoy I still had fun with this and it's a solid read if you like romance! (and very wordy sex scenes lmao)