raindrops333's Reviews (1.96k)

5/5 ⭐ 
4/5 🌶️ 

Tropes
- second chances 
- musicians 
- forced proximity
- Dual POV
- friends are a great found family
- holiday romance
- snow

📖 My Thoughts
Love that Charlotte is prone to mishaps because I'm too. I'll be the one to get a shirt stain on the last bite. As such, she ends up stuck in the same cabin as her ex, during a snowstorm. Not just her ex, her “left me at the altar five years ago” ex. Sweet story of second chances. The character development of growing up is well thought out, this author cares for her characters and their feelings.

They were childhood friends who became lovers and had a fall out as they wanted different things, they just had to find themselves separately before getting back together.

I thought the author closed the book with a very believable ending. 

⚠️ Triggers
Claustrophobia (tiny, can be skipped)
Alcohol

LGBTQ+ representation 
All the younger characters are non-binary. While central to the story, the conversation felt natural and not the core of the book. It's just a story of what ifs, where the characters happen to be non-binary.

🌶️ Spice
Very natural with the story, not gratuitous.

There are timeline memories with spice that move the story along. The current spice is part of coming to the realization that there are still sparks there, they just had to grow up independently from each other.

 
📝 Special Notes
Super cute cover with musical instrument on cover.
31 chapters

It felt a bit juvenile.

When she was on her adult persona was a completely different line of thought than when she was talking about college. I felt I was reading two very different books. One of the incomplete.

It felt like an incomplete book. I liked the first book more. It was also a bit too long with repetitive paragraphs and storyline. 

3/5 🌶️ 

Tropes
- reality TV
- Latina MFC
- produced relationships 

📖 My Thoughts
I enjoyed this book very much. When Unreal was airing, I watched it religiously. I'm not a fan of reality TV, but that show had all the drama. This book reminds me a bit about it. It definitely has some components that differentiate it. One comes along the ride for when the guy is supposed to choose the one the producers want, but instead he falls for his producer. Their journey is rather entertaining.

⚠️ Triggers
Reality TV

Is it cheating if the fake relationship is not real.

🌶️ Spice
It follows the natural progression of the story. 
love.

The scene when she's asleep is rather hot. The secrecy added a level of excitement to the spice.

 📝 Special Notes

I found cute that the camera captured their entire interaction to fall in love.

The author graciously provided a copy for review. Opinions are my own.