It’s short but great. Also, 10/10 grovel.

A ridiculous lark about the importance of finishing your sentence when you are making love declarations.

I can already feel the headache I’m going to have tomorrow from staying up this late reading but I don’t care. It was worth it.

Assigned to work together for the protection of a Broadway star, Oliver and Jon find that behind their snarky flirting, they might work well together in more ways than one.

This just didn't work for me. People make what seemed to be weird decisions and come to weird conclusions. I'd give examples but almost every decision in this book is one that doesn't make much sense to me. And then the book makes a big deal about how Jon is bossy in bed... and he's not really, which was something else that didn't make much sense to me. Most of it felt purposefully staged, like you can see why the author needed X to happen and how many strings needed to be pulled to get there. Even the "thriller" parts of it were odd, told in a weird way I didn't much care for. The entire book was bizarre, full of overly dramatic people that I didn't care much for in the first place.

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This was - generally speaking - a fun mystery with a sweet romantic side plot. I enjoyed the mystery plot, which is really saying something, because I'm super particular about that. The mystery really unfolds in unexpected ways. All of the clues and puzzle pieces were well laid out and the progression of the mystery felt very natural.

The romance was a little insta-lusty, which I don't mind, and while inside of the book, you kind of forget that Sam and Teddy have only known each other for a very short period of time. It's only now really that I've been away from the book for a while that I realize that that all happened in the time span of a couple of days.

My only real qualms with the book were 1. most of the minor characters are portrayed with very flat, stereotypical depictions of what wealth and privilege looks like. In all fairness, there's a lot of characters here and we didn't get a lot of time to know them all. So take that for what you will. 2. I thought the choice to have the Spanish spoken during the book written out in English even though the character through whose narrative we are experiencing the book doesn't understand Spanish was odd. I'm not sure how I feel about things that were happening outside of Sam's purview being completely unknown to us with the exception of this one thing. Tack on that then the Spanish would be translated for Sam so we'd read the same text twice? Bizarre choice.

For me, these are relatively small qualms and didn't impact my reading much.

That all being said, I had a fun time with this.

CWs: references to f-slur, misgendering, death and dead bodies

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This was fantastic. I read it as a palate cleanser after a book really upset me (to be fair to the unnamed book, it was supposed to be upsetting), and this short novella really was perfect. A lighthearted, sweet and fluffy romance with just a little angst at the end. (Really, just a smidge.) Lane and Sam are absolutely perfect - and perfect for each other - and I was swooning at the end of this. While I would have been super okay with having this be a longer book, it was a good length for the plot, which is hard to do with a novella. This was marvelous and I loved everything about this. (I'm already considering rereading it, lol.)

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Magical realism at its most wondrous. This was nothing I expected it to be.

The audiobook was also very good.