This was a really fun read! I struggled a bit at first, because after Something’s Different by Quinn Ivins, I kept asking myself questions like, “what about her hairstyle” and “how are there not legal repercussions for both of them for taking a job under someone else’s name,” but once I just let myself enjoy the story, it was great. Loved all the characters, especially the well-rounded and identifiable side characters. And I loved the epilogue!

Giselle is an honours student and ice skater, who is spreading herself too thin with extra-curricular activities, feeling like she can’t please anyone. She has just come out of a bad breakup when she meets Primrose.

Primrose is a member of a shady campus organisation made up of working class students who hit back at the rich preppy kids who hurt them. Her role in the organisation is to make guys fall in love with her then break their hearts. But her latest target is Giselle. But that makes it easier, because she’s straight, so no chance of catching feelings and compromising the assignment, right?

I loved this book. It was a real page-turner. I think I finished it in under 24 hours.

I loved the characters. Primrose and Giselle had strong voices, so it was easy to tell which PoV each chapter was from, even without the chapter headings. I got really invested in both characters, wanting to know more about them, and really feeling for them. I loved following them as they grew and tried to work through their issues, and help eachother do the same.

The large cast of side characters were all fun too.

The story and set-up felt really unique, and drew me into the story immediately.

There was a third-act breakup, but it felt necessary and realistic for the story, and was handled really well. It really felt like it added to the story, rather than detracting from it like it can in romance stories.

Overall a really great story that I heartily recommend!.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Very well written, but left me feeling a little empty at the end. The will-they-won’t-they was a bit too much, so in the end we never got to see them as a couple, only as two people making each-other very sad. I felt like we needed a bit more between the end of the main story and the epilogue as well. And why didn’t we get to see the kid’s reaction to them getting together! It would have been good to have a central plot other than just the romance. And the age of the kid seemed to vary wildly from toddler to, like, fully grown adult, if his dialogue was anything to go by. Hopefully we will see more from this author though, as they seem pretty talented and have potential.

A sweet romance with a fun sci-fi twist! I wish there had been a tiny bit more at the end about how Eva was fitting into the modern world. And I really need to know that Deny was in therapy and dealing with her anger issues!

The dialogue was poorly written, I did not understand the characters’ attraction to one another at all, the flirting was painful, and also the book was full of typos and grammatical mistakes.

Both main characters complain about how much they hate women, there’s a long passage that continually uses the term “females”, and there’s a discussion about how gross body hair on women is, and how at minimum women should shave their armpits and legs. This all gives the book a distinctly and uncomfortably sexist vibe, and makes it unpleasant to read.