Thanks to Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op for the ARC 🤍

Not often the only POV is from the MMC of the book! It was a different perspective than I’m used to but it was a good change from the usual!! 

The past or “then” just says December 2015” but in chapter 8 it says that alone with it’s “been a week since Halloween” so I’m not really sure of what the timeline here is supposed to be? Unless these are editing errors? Many back and forths between the past and the present. Usually it was easily picked up on if I didn’t pay attention to the chapter heading, but there were a couple times even with that I was thinking “wait are we in the past again” 

Very weird tragic violent background for Elizabeth that I was not expecting. His past wasn’t as bad as I assumed based on how they were talking about how much he “fcked up”  but that was also kinda violent. Just felt odd given the rest of the book. I expected her past to come back because of how it was introduced, but it never really did. 

I was not a fan of Elizabeth. The constant back and forth with being normal and then shutting him out over something she refused to listen to the truth about was so incredibly annoying. She can’t get mad at anything when she’s been adamant the whole time it was all just for the contract. Josh was just okay; he honestly should’ve grown a pair though jfc. Many times of “I need to apologize” “I need to fix this” when he clearly was not at fault and she was the one who needed to apologize. All of the side characters were meh. There were l wayyyyyy too many to keep track of and remember who was who, but I do know they all sucked 

I figured it would get even more stupid when confessions and things were happening about halfway through it but holy hell am I flabbergasted at the amount of predictably stupid we got. And the ending?! What in the off the wall out of nowhere fricken crap are we doing here?!