Here comes yet another book that seemed so fun from the blurb yet ended up a complete miss. My book-picking game is clearly very off.

I did have some real fun with this one, at least—though not because of the things I expected to enjoy about it. Rather, despite them. Because see, when it comes to romance, I expect to be invested in the main couple, but here, these two characters just honestly baffled me. Beat especially (if someone’s blackmailing you with your family’s dirty laundry, idk, maybe getting the money from agreeing to a reality show that is almost guaranteed to dig into your family’s dirty laundry is… not the best move?). But honestly, both of them made so many weird choices and conclusions, especially about each other, and I really didn’t get how their brand of insta-love worked. They just confused me, both as individual characters and especially as a couple.

On the other hand, the whole plot with the tv show and reuniting the MCs’ moms’ band was pretty entertaining. Sometimes cheesy, sometimes slightly unhinged, but it was all good fun, and I honestly kept wishing it was at the forefront of the book more often. Both moms were hilarious, especially their banter when they ended up in a scene together, and their clashing personalities really gave those reality tv vibes. They made me laugh the way only mildly horrible yet occasionally well-meaning people can.

Still sad I didn’t get the type of romance I came from though.