So this was a cute book. Not my favourite but great to end the year in a bit of a festive note.

It was a really nice, fast read, I read it in like two seatings I’m pretty sure. The writing was really fun, fast paced and entertaining.

The characters were nice and well written, Eve was a fun main character and I really felt for her and everything she went through. I loved Greg as a love interest and I was really interested in him and his family. The side characters were great. I liked both of their families, Eve’s parents were thee cutest, I enjoyed their scenes together and their quirks so much and they felt very real. And I loved the whole cast in the ceramics class, Mimi and Raj and Danny... And of course Marmite!! I mean how could you not adore him?

And I really enjoyed the setting. The small town and the boat and the ceramics house… the whole thing felt really cozy and like the perfect getaway.

I would say I just wanted more from the story? Like I wanted more from the love story, from the secret with Greg, from the fallout with Liam…

I thought Eve and Greg were cute but I just wanted more scenes with them together. I felt like they barely knew each other when they kissed and I honestly don’t think they even knew each other that well in the end? Maybe I’m crazy but I don’t think they interacted with each other that much, so I wasn’t that invested in the romance. Same thing with Greg’s secret, I was really interested in him and his family, and I wanted to see more, I wanted to feel more emotion and see more of what they were going through.

And when Eve finds out who the mystery “vagina” is I thought she was soo calm, especially after the secret was kept the entire time, I wanted more of a reaction, it felt like there was barely any fallout or consequences.

And I liked the writing but there were some choices I didn’t love, like the chapters where we see the same scene from both of their perspectives. I wish we had spent that time expanding on their relationship instead of repeating the same thing, you know?

Also I was a bit put off by the way the author talked about women at times. Especially as someone that studies and works in fashion, most women I know are very nice and I always have a hard time and raise my brow when media portrays all women in fashion as the stereotypical mean, superficial girls.

Anyway, it was a nice, cute book. Not my favourite but not my least favourite either. It was a fast paced light read, good palette cleanser and nice to read during Christmas.