I just didn’t care about the characters or the story.

I really enjoyed the first book, but I didn’t enjoy the second book or this one. 

Too much of the main character’s inner monologue, not enough of anything else.

I was just really bored and didn’t care about the love interest because we didn’t get his pov. But I’m going to read another CCJ book soon, so hopefully I’ll like it better🤞🏽

     Pediatric surgeon, London Kelley, needs to de-stress. Taking her friends advice, London finds herself hooking up with her highschool rival, Drew Sullivan. He was the perfect choice since he was only in town for their highschool reunion and she’ll never have to see him again. At least, that’s what she thought, until she runs into him at the hospital she works in and finds out that he’ll be deciding if her beloved hospital gets to stay open. London realizes that she’s sleeping with the enemy, but will her and her enemy fall for each other?

     I was very nervous when I picked this book up because I have very conflicting thoughts about the other two books in the series. I DNFed the first book, but I loved the second book so much and it’s one of my favorite romance novels of all time. So I couldn’t wait to see what this book had in store for me. But I’m sad to say that I also DNFed this book.

     First I want to start with what I liked about this book and that was the characters. London and Drew were both very interesting characters. Drew could’ve been a great love interest and the two of them could’ve worked really well together. Their romance had so much potential, but the problem was that this book didn’t have enough romance! 

     I was almost halfway into the book and yet, nothing of substance had happened between them outside of their hookups. This book is heavy on their work situation and they have no scenes together outside of that. And because of that I felt no chemistry between them. It felt like the hospital plot was the main plot and the hookups were an almost nonexistent subplot. I personally want to be a doctor and even I found the amount of hospital scenes boring! We don’t see many of the hookups, which I’m happy about since I’m not a person who enjoys smut, but there weren’t any scenes of them talking after hookups and getting to know each other, or going out to eat together after hookups, or any scenes of substance at all outside of the work environment. I’m very disappointed that this book had such little romance. 

     I’m still happy that I read this series and I definitely plan on reading more books by Farrah Rochon soon since I loved the second book in the series so much!

Thank you NetGalley and Forever (Grand Central Publsihing) for this arc. All opinions are my own.

TW: parental death, illness in children (mc is a pediatric surgeon)

I was simply bored

DNF at 37%. There was a lot going on this novel, but I still managed to be bored because nothing was happening. Also I did not like the main character at all. I can tell she was written to be snarky, but she just came off as rude for no reason. Her personality was supposed to be cute, but it wasn’t😬

It was a good book, just not for me! The male love interest seemed like the type of dude that’ll say whatever a woman wants to hear. I don’t respond to charming men, I don’t trust them. But that’s my personal preference. Also, the smut level was higher than my particular liking, but again, personal preference. It was well written though and I liked every character except the male love interest. 

I was incredibly bored. I was even more bored with this than I was with Final Girls. My least favorite Sager.

I’m sad to say that I DNF’ed this book at 50%. 

This was one of my most anticipated books of the year, and I’m so disappointed. There was just sooo much unnecessary inner monologue from Harrison that it became exhausting to read it. I feel like 1 out of 3 of every sentence that I read could’ve been taken out. The 50% of this book that I read could’ve been cut down to 20% of the book. There was no reason for this book to be 400 pages long I’m sorry.

The book promised me an adventure between 2 Black queer best friends. And what it gave me was 40% worth of thinking and planning on Harrison’s part, nothing of Linus, and by 50% of the book they’d only gone to one place. It was just too much.

I will read the author’s next book though, because I LOVE the thought of this book and I hope the pacing will improve in his next book🤞🏽