I’ll revisit this at a future date, but cannot bring myself to drag this reading out at this time. 

Switching from an ebook to audio was very helpful for this one. This was the one in the series I was most looking forward to, and I still found it only alright. The premise was very interesting tho, I enjoyed the theme of the audit of the hospital, I don’t know much about that and it was interesting to learn about.  

Ultimately, this author is not for me. 

Sooo adorable! Loved the artwork, and the story was the sweetest. 

The definition of heartwarming 

Phenomenal!!! 

I don’t even have kids and I read this with my fellow 28 year old friend and we both very much enjoyed it and learned some things! 

I’ll be gifting this to every child I know for sure. 

I think I enjoyed this more than the first! The use of puns was top notch, and I love how much they love each other. 

Overall: SO good!!! It's so joyous, I highly recommend!! It's the third in a series, but the other two are only barely referenced so you def don't have to read in order. The premise and execution were A+ 

Elise Bryant strikes the perfect balance between being lighthearted & fun, while also talking about race and how it impacts Delilah & Reggie. It's a dual POV, and Reggie is so endearingly funny & earnest. I love that they're both out here pretending to be confident to impress each other, but also trying to be the best versions of themselves bc they don't know who they are yet! I was soo proud of them for growing throughout the book, and figuring out how to have difficult convos with each other, with Delilah's band, and with Reggie's parents. I'm out here proud of teens that don't even exist bc their personal growth was hard fraught and I applaud them for it!

Overall it’s hard to root for a couple when he says things like “I hadn’t considered that she has an entire life outside of being my fan” and she has a weirdly intense & naive one-sided fandom for a golf star. No offense to golf (but some offense to golf). It was just so hard to see a woman be so intensively supportive of a man and for him to be annoyed about it, and for him to think rude thoughts about her because of it. So, overall this dynamic doesn’t working for so I DNFed. 

I finished this in two days, so it was overall decent. But also....it wrapped up HELLA quick. Phoebe went from giant commitmentphobe to "I love you" & moving in realll fast at the end. I liked the author's writing style but I would say maybe the plot doesn't have a lot of meat on its bones. It felt like the PhD dissertation aspect was supposed to be more woven through the plot and be more substantial than casual pop culture & spooky jokes, but it just wasn’t. Also there wasn’t a lot of internal reflections or resolutions on her feelings with her childhood + her father’s death, and that’s kinda the impetus for the entire book so it was surprising to be absent. Even in her friendship with Alison, the past was just lightly talked about even tho they had a lot to discuss. It was touched upon and immediately moved past, like Alison was just sitting static waiting for Phoebe to half heartedly apologize. 

So overall, I enjoyed this just fine but it was surprisingly superficial. The premise seems like it’d have a lot of introspection, and I think the author tried for that? But it didn’t work for me.