Thank you so much to Forever and Netgalley for providing an advanced copy of this! All thoughts and opinions are still my own.

My first 5 star read of the year!

This was so fucking delightful and had me grinning ear to ear through the whole book. This book is a love letter to rom-coms and my romance loving heart ate up every bit.

This played with romance tropes in a way I absolutely loved. Since the heroine is a romance author, the book was so self aware of its trope use and subversion. Plus this has absolutely hilarious chapter titles defining classic romance tropes.

This combined some of my favorite things - fake dating, a hopeless romantic, and a deal. Their chemistry, the pining, the dates.. all of it was just so fantastic. And the audiobook just enhanced the story even more for me since it's dual narrated.

I just can't gush about this book enough. If you are a rom-com fan or fellow hopeless romantic, definitely pick this one up.

This was so much fun. It felt like a love letter to rom com classic tropes.

While this has miscommunication it's deeply rooted in how these two need to learn and grow as people. They do that and learn to talk and work through their issues.

I'm not sure the last time i read a contemporary romance with this much growth for our MCs. Also that felt like such a love letter to rom coms and the tropes we love in romance.

Content Note: estranged family, homophobia (in the past towards FMC)

ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley