Wanted it to be 5 stars but tw for

workplace sexual harassment/assault that is never addressed or resolved

and repetitive writing

especially way too many uses of his “flesh” and “her sex”

pulled me out of the story. The main characters were very well written and the chemistry  was great.

I really wanted to like this book. The idea sounded great, but it’s not a romance and the spontaneous Vegas wedding to a stranger had almost no impact on the plot. There were a lot of unbelievable moments that pulled me out of the story, like what researcher doesn’t immediately Google their mysterious and attractive wife? While the characters were diverse, they also felt underwritten and at some points stereotyped. The book as a whole was really repetitive (so much about what it means to be a Porter, the military, her hair, having a plan, etc). I did really relate to the description of burnout, and maybe if I’d expected a burnout story instead of a romance I would have enjoyed it more.

I found this book repetitive and dull except for when it was triggering (infidelity, intense bullying, online harassment, and more) or unbelievable (the main character hurting/shaming other women while being portrayed as a feminist icon, the way some minority characters were written, the whole Morocco trip, and many of the podcast or fake articles)