Prom Mom

I liked the concept and the writing was pretty readable, but I felt the pacing was off. The chapters from the prom were too short and from unnecessary perspectives. Not much happens at all in this book except for a messy set of affairs????? I didn't understand why Joe kept stringing 3 separate women along, and how amber was just egging it on? The ending made zero sense and was a big punch packed into a few pages. The COVID storyline also seemed like it was thrown in just for the heck of it. Overall, the synopsis made this sound like it was an obsession thriller, when it was just a very slow contemporary fiction. I didn't see (or understand) the stakes and wish the novel would commit to what type of book it was. Had it committed to a thriller/contemporary/romance instead of poorly mixing all three, I would have had a much better experience.