I completely forgot about Icebreaker and that this was in the same universe. It’s fun and a quick easy read that’ll keep your mind busy, but nothing memorable. It had its cute and funny moments with A decent spice scene but otherwise it was just filler and cringey dialogue. Neither main character were particularly interesting or likable which isn’t necessary for a story but in a romance novel? Yeah, it’s definitely a requirement. 

As someone with daddy issues, I don’t mind seeing it in books but this was just so much! Two characters where their daddy issues was 90% of their personalities was so annoying. Also, I’m getting REALLY TIRED of seeing these books where the character is being legit abused (mentally/emotionally/physically) by their parent and everyone trying to get the MC to make amends with them. Like are you serious??? Normalize cutting off toxic family members and not feeling guilty for it! I know Russ’s dad has a disease but that doesn’t mean Russ should ever feel obligated to accept the amends let alone reconcile with his father. 

And why are these books SO LONG. There’s too much filling not enough crust to hold it together. I will still probably listen/read to the third book, but it’s just to listen to while I work and need something I can half pay attention to without getting lost.

Pretty standard coming-of-age story. While I do like that Andie actually grew as a person and Milo stopped being annoying, I hated the way Milo was pushed to make amends with his brother. Regardless of the fact that Milo maybe realized he wasn’t as happy with his ex as he thought (in hindsight) and that she and his brother were planning to tell him, THEY STILL WENT BEHIND HIS BACK! That’s so messed up. And his family shouldn’t have manipulated the situation to force Milo to make peace with his brother. It’s a betrayal and if Milo was going to reconcile then it should’ve been on his own accord and not because he was pressured. It was the one piece of advice I hated Andie giving. 

Also, Connor was already a douchebag, Andie didn’t need to catch him cheating to finally break it off. It just feels like a cop out. Like no one was rooting for Connor you didn’t need to throw an unnecessary betrayal to get the readers on board with her breaking up with him. Sometimes relationships don’t last and you don’t need infidelity or abuse to occur to be the reason a breakup happens. 

Still, it was cute and had good growth over a reasonable course of time and not in 2 weeks like a lot of books do.