2.5 stars
OVERALL: This book is steamy and sexy, but I didn't buy the levels of emotion by the end of the book. The social commentary on less shame surrounding sex/pornography and more pleasure for women was interesting but ultimately for me detracted from the romance plotline.
CW: explicit sex, pornography, profanity, hospitalization, car accident

While I liked the premise of this book, I actually didn't enjoy the start: Clara has moved across the country to live with her childhood best friend and long-time crush, who informs her he will actually be going on tour and has rented his room to a random internet dude. So Clara is upset about this, but essentially sets up 100% to the reader that Everett sucks and we kind of can't relate to Clara's feelings about him.
In the first 25% I found Clara annoying. I appreciated that she was a different character to many heroines, but it was hard for me to tell if she was just vulnerable and had realistic weaknesses or if she was obnoxious.
I did enjoy both Clara and Josh being vulnerable with each other, which they were doing because they were both thinking that there was no way for the relationship to happen, and this of course lead to feelings being developed. That being said, I felt like the 'reasons' they each had for why they couldn't be with the other one were weak and not a great source of tension.
The time jumps were understandable (yes, it probably would take some time to pull together the number of people and arrangements that were pulled together), but also this was annoying because I wanted to know what was happening between our main characters during those skipped times... I also felt like there were one or two time 'mistakes' where something took too short/long of a time and messed up the timeline.

By 63%: I suppose the reasons for Josh to not get romantically involved with Clara now have to do with being in business with her, so that was more understandable.
The entire Shameless project was awesome to read about, and I think was a good topic to try to discuss and show as important, but also this element took away from the romance plotline and development. And I wanted to see Clara USE IT at some point, or the description of a scene/what Josh was doing for the project.

By the end of the book, I may have been reading it too quickly (my library copy was going to expire!) but I felt like bits were missing? (were a couple moments where the editing/formatting could have been better, when I had to pause and reread and was confused at a sudden POV shift or unsure that two consecutive paragraphs were part of the same scene.
I loved reading the feelings Josh had for Clara, but she was still in denial about her feelings/not allowing herself to have them, so from his POV it was lovely to read the love and tension, but from her POV it just felt like tension.
Also, other than the movie theater scene, I didn't really follow why they were so upset with each other? I think that was me just rushing to finish the book.