I was surprisingly underwhelmed by this one.

Don't get me wrong, it was nice to spend a little more time with Garrett and Hannah, Logan and Grace, Dean and Allie, and Tucker and Sabrina. I love these characters, and seeing where life has taken them after their books was genuinely sweet.

But... that's kind of all it was.

Sweet.

These stories felt more like bonus scenes than actual stories, and while I enjoyed checking in on everyone's lives, I never found myself particularly invested in what was happening.

It all felt a little overindulgent in a way I wasn't really craving.

I think if you're a die-hard Off-Campus fan who simply can't get enough of these characters, you'll probably have a great time. There's definitely comfort in revisiting old favorites and seeing them happy.

For me, though, I felt like I could've skipped it without missing much.

A pleasant little goodbye to a series I love, but not one that left much of an impression.

This one just did not work for me.

Which is a shame, because the premise sounded so interesting. I picked it up after seeing an Instagram Reel praise it as one of those books you read in a single sitting, and I went in expecting to be completely hooked.

Instead... I just didn't vibe with it.

Somewhere along the way, the story lost me. I kept waiting for things to click, for the plot to come together, for the characters to become more compelling, and it never really happened.

The FMC felt flat to me, while the MMC felt like a cutout of every romance hero I've read a hundred times before. Nothing about him really stood out.

And then there was the werewolf aspect, which was probably my biggest disappointment. The fact that they were werewolves barely affected the story at all. They could have been aliens, fae, vampires, or literally any other supernatural species and the plot would have worked exactly the same. It felt less like an integral part of the world and more like a random fact attached to the characters.

The plot itself also didn't work for me. There was a lot of angst, which I don't mind in theory, but here it felt exhausting rather than emotionally compelling.

And after all that, the plot didn't even give me enough payoff to make the journey feel worth it.

I can absolutely see why this might work for other readers. The premise is genuinely interesting, and I don't think the book is without potential. But for me, something was missing. The characters felt underdeveloped, the supernatural elements felt almost irrelevant, and the story never managed to pull me in emotionally.

Definitely not the one-sitting read I was expecting.