The romance in this is cute. And it actually didn't bother me, like some other people, that Kayla didn't know what was up with her/had internalized aphobia for most of the book's length. Maybe it's because I read Loveless recently and in that book the main character deals with internalized aphobia for many more pages.

But it bothers me how, at two different points in the book, a character says something homophobic, then the main character gets mad at them, and the person backtracks completely immediately, apologising and saying that what they said was inappropriate. In real life, when someone says something like "Is that girl [who is a lesbian] corrupting you?", they have a deeper, perhaps partially subconscious, homophobic bias. And that doesn't immediately go away after one person whom you trust told you that you're out of line. People don't do 180s like this in a matter of minutes. That felt unrealistic to me.

Also, all of the characters, beside the main character and the love interest, are paper thin, characterwise, but I guess that's to be expected from a novella of this length.

Some people will probably also feel meh about the fact that there is an "allo saviour" in this, i.e. a non-ace character who teaches an ace character about what asexuality is. This doesn't bother me too much, a) because this actually happens in real-life sometimes, b) it beats being clueless, and c) I think it makes narrative sense here.

Lastly, I want to add that the book uses "transgendered" at one point, which is not a word and should be edited to "transgender". This might be a microaggression to some, so I wanted to mention it. (I read the ebook version on Kindle Unlimited, for reference)