Figgy

I'm a big fan of romance books but this one was just so...boring? The characters were boring and shallow, it was just one trope after another and it tried to be self aware which just made it even worse. I didn't get attached neither to the characters or the plot or anything really. Things just sort of conveniently popped up and even the spicy scenes felt soooo awkward and even made me a little uncomfortable. I think this is the first book I've read from Ali Hazelwood and if this is supposed to be her most popular one then I gotta say I'm not feeling very compelled to read any of her other ones if this is what I'm gonna get.

So one thing to note is that when i started reading the series, I started with the second, third, first and then last book. This one was definitely the most disappointing one I've read yet.

It kind of felt like it was just a segue for the next series and I didn't connect with the characters at all. I found myself wanting to just skim pages because nothing really held my attention as well as the third part of the series did. Super disappointing, the characters were simply too flat and it's like...almost all of the series could be summed up to "if they just talked about it, this book would have been 50 pages long" but with the others I understood why the characters were withholding, why we were building this suspense and sense of yearning. But here? It was just some guy with an extreme moral compass and a girl who was like idk I guess he's ignoring me so I won't talk to him bc daddy issues...Just...not my cup of tea.