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Holdout by Jaqueline Snowe
2.0

One of those “read it because of a tiktok” romance novels. It’s fine as just a fluffy, mindless read, but it doesn’t deliver anything deeper. Ryann, even though she’s the protagonist, is barely a character. She doesn’t have friends, doesn’t have interests, and I’m not certain that we ever even learn what she’s majoring in, despite the fact that the novel is set at a college.