some parts of this book really clicked for me and some parts just...didn’t, so it’s really hard to rate it. i guess it’s something like a 3.5 because i love the whole childhood friends to enemies to lovers vibe but the language sometimes just didn’t work and it was very slow in parts. i wanted to like it way more than i actually did which sucks

james was such an asshole that it’s no wonder that he didn’t end up with

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nate

. i don’t think he had enough growth to warrant the end and he did and said some absolutely horrible things but the parody of his blog was amazing and he had some super interesting love interests

honestly almost DNFd this book right with the first chapter because beckett is that unlikeable and the language he uses is just so awful.

this book is like the parent trap if the protagonists were assholes and there was a bit of semi pseudo incest thrown in. it wasn’t fun and i didn’t particularly want anyone other than maybe jojo to have a happy ending.

the lengths that beckett and jax went to in order to get their parents back together were....gross. the plot itself was a little bit convoluted (and again at times gross) such as high school kids getting anal bleaching and brazilians (???) and this being totally cool and fun and beckett trying to lose his virginity on a grindr-esque app where low and behold he’s magically catfished by jax and it’s just sort of introduced out of nowhere and doesn’t really add anything at all to the story.

it has the bones of a story that could have been good, but it just really wasn’t