While I can easily see why this would be loved by many, and while there’s parts of it that made me swoon myself, it was also quite the let down in the end.
But let’s start with the positives, shall we?
The author for sure understood the assignment when it comes to the trope: slow burn.
I was glued to the pages, and though some of the characters were the kind of overly dramatic that I have trouble engaging with, I rooted for our MC and her love interest.
Another cute fact that made my inner monk so very happy is the choice of the colour of the cover. It’s Catalina’s favourite colour. Love the attention to details like that.
What I don’t love, however, is the fact that we get another perfect-bodied, Greek God like ‘hero’. If we went by all these trending romance novels it would seem like the perfect male partner can’t be anyone else but a chisled, ripped and six-pack adorned man.
And it bothers me because I feel like we, as a society, care a lot about how women are portayed on social media and in modern literature, yet when it comes to men we settle for the old stereotype without too much thought. Why is that?
And now for why this book didn’t make it to 4 stars: It would have been. If the ending were different. It just happened WAAAYY too fast and it felt like there were situations and problems that weren’t really that present throughout the rest of the book, but because the author needed another conflict those circumstances just exploded. It didn’t feel authentic, but rushed which is so sad, because I enjoyed most of the book but the ending soured the taste massively.
