Overall: 4.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes
Perspective: First person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: I didn’t note it but think it was almost immediately
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, not quite a year later
Format: listened to the audiobook from the library (Hoopla)

Should I read in order?
I picked this one up alone and found it enjoyable but see the other characters have their HEAs within this story – I wonder if there’s character depth for these mains throughout the series and their on/off relationship.

Basic plot:
A wedding brings Pris and Juan Pablo together again after their umpteenth break up...

Give this a try if you want:
- Contemporary romance
- second chance
- police officer by day, sex podcast creator by night heroine
- found family/close family and friends vibes
- therapy positive
- open to a child free HEA
- higher steam – 4 scenes within a shorter feeling page count

My thoughts:
So I feel like somehow all I read read this month is second chance, which makes me whiny and grumpy. But! But!! I overall really enjoyed this one.

Why did it work for me? I think part of it is that this one felt a bit shorter to me (I think the audio was like 6 hours? And I usually listen to like 9-11 hours. 😆 Really though, I did feel like there was a lot of sweetness in this one. One thing that ends up bothering me about second chance is I usually get no feels – no butterflies and no angsty because it’s like the good stuff happened off page and I’m left with the anger and resentment of a failed relationship. This one didn’t really have an enemies to lovers vibe – they kind of fell into being friends again. And what really got me was that Juan Pablo put in the hard work to make himself better for Priscilla. He went to therapy. He reflected. He made choices that were hard for him and didn’t benefit him. And it was really sweet – it gave me feelings of a new relationship that I could appreciate and fall in love with.

I LOVED the found family/friend feels in this one. The family and friends are just so heartwarming and hilarious. It felt like a wonderful hug to read. And I got some angsty feelings towards the end from their relationship and family vulnerability that I appreciated.

I believe this was my first by Herrera, but definitely going to be picking up more!

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- miscarriages mentioned (heroine’s mom)
- police work and problematic cases including child rape and molestation resulting in pregnancy

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex: 

  Condoms used 

 
Hows the consent? 

  It’s good! 

 
28% - 🔥sex on the beach
46% - 🔥kisses, blowjob, oral for her, her on top
63% - kisses
70% - 🔥cock ring, oral for her
86% - 🔥mutual masturbation