Wim

This has been a fun read for 75% of the book. It was quirky and witty. Olive and Adam were a good match and their interaction enticed me to continue reading. But the other 25% is just purely ... repeated stupidity.

I'm not a hard to please reader, I really am not.

I enjoy the conversations between Olive and Adam. The words felt real and genuine. I don't mind the fact that the author was hellbent on saying that Adam was an ass while the only ass thing about him was that he did his job mercilessly.

I also don't mind Olive clumsy lies to her friend and her abrupt decision to kiss a random dude in the hallway. Who wouldn't do that for a friend?

What I do mind is that midway through the book the story advanced by Olive sprouting another lie, a horrible lie and making no attempts to fix it before doing a myriad of other things with Adam. At this point, I found her a bit hypocritical and harsh. If Adam criticising curtly on a student's work as a part of his job is trashy, asshole, Olive insisting that she wanted to have sex with him while he obviously was hurt by the fact she was into someone else not him will be waste processing, landing filling trash level.

Usually, miscommunication is at the core of all problems in modern day rom-com. And I think that is fine. I don't need some complex reason. But it needs to be executed nicely. The second miscommunication in this book was not it.

Overall, it was a simple, quick to consume book. It's rom-com. It's the bad guy - good girl story. It's the faking dating to the save the world story. I will be lying if I say I did not love the 75% that was good. But I just hate the other 25% so much that it's a 3-star for me.