Ship Wrecked

I unabashedly loved this for the first half. You've got a one-night stand occurring on page 1, and lots of pining when it turns out the H/h are going to be co-stars on a Game of Thrones type TV show, lots of good side characters and humor and adorable grumpy/sunshine-ness.

And then you get to what you think would be the HEA and ... there's still 30% of the book left. At which point, I started mentally deducting stars, because it kept dragging on and on, and you think these characters would be better at communicating what they need from each other since they've done a decent job to that point, but then the conclusions Maria jumped to were just ... like, not okay? (Which she eventually does come to realize, they both make changes and come back for HEA #2, but like, I was happy with HEA #1!) And that was a bummer because to that point, Maria had been a badass boss bitch who was like, yo TV dudes this is a fantasy show, I do not need to lose weight and I will WALK if you try to make me, and then basically just turned into a puddle of insecurity when she didn't get absolutely everything she thought she wanted, when the entire development of her character had been so confident in herself and her choices, and I didn't love that.

Still a good time, but it went on far too long.