So the reason I wanted to read this is because I've been seeing the author advertise this all over booktok so when I saw it was an ARC on Netgalley I jumped at the chance to apply for it. Friends, I really enjoyed this book. I'm not gonna lie, before reading this I had DNF'd a different queer contemporary romance and started to think that maybe the genre was not for me... And then Lyla brought me right back. This book was such a fun read for me and I found myself giggling and kicking my feet throughout. I was shocked to see myself enjoying a book with so much open door romance in it as well as usually I'm not one for spice, but for this one all of the spice was perfect, and loving, and so real for the sapphic experience that even I found myself blushing and cheering it on. I really love found family and female friendship within books and this one sure did have a lot in there. I think this book also taught me how important it is to see POC represented in queer romances and how little we do actually see them within even modern main media. I will say, the only downside I had with this book was even though it was dual POV, which I love, I found the jumping in between first and third person depending on who it was a little confusing at times, but honestly once I got into it I eventually got the hang of it. I will 100% be buying myself a copy of this book when it comes out, and I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants a cute, funny, second chance queer romance to get stuck into.

Love in Focus was my first book by author Lyla Lee. Thank you to Hachette Audio, Forever & NetGalley for the ALC. Love in Focus is a second-chance romance between Gemma, a Korean-American bi woman, and her college girlfriend Celeste, a Korean lesbian woman. There is good attention paid to the identities of each woman, as well as a fleshed out cast of side characters. I appreciated that the miscommunication of their first breakup was cleared up rather early on, even if there was still emotional fall-out for both characters to recon with. I have seen reviews that were thrown off by the POV changing from first person in Gemma's chapters to third person in Celeste's shorter chapters. I have read a couple other books like this, and I think it is an interesting choice that can put the ownership of the story more in the first person character. I also really like both narrators for this project. They have distinct voices from each other and did good voice work when speaking for other characters. The story flowed with no noticeable awkwardness or fumbles in pronunciation or sentence structure. I enjoyed this book, but overall, it didn't leave a super-lasting impression for me.