As a romance book this one was... not good.
I didn't feel a connection between Shireen and her ex, Chris, and I felt even less of a romantic connection between Shireen and Nieve (audiobook, idk how it's spelled). I felt like all of the romance between Shireen and Chris was in the past, there was next to nothing on page in the present of this book. I thought Shireen was actually really rude to Chris throughout most of it actually. I don't know how Chris was still interested in her after it all.

Shireen literally accuses her of sabotaging her cake with no proof.

I understand that there's history between them and if I was Chris, I probably would have let it go too,  but to us as readers, that doesn't make for a very good romance story, especially when we don't see the two of them happily falling in love in the first place.
And then the whole thing with Nieve just confused me so much. I didn't feel like anything they were doing was considered flirting? I thought the whole time that Nieve was just trying to be friends. The instance of Nieve sitting basically on Shireen's lap at the first party was the closest thing we got to a romantic flirtation and that didn't happen until after Shireen's friend Fatima berated her about being too flirty with Nieve. Plus Shireen was like not texting her back and just flat out ignoring her most of the time. If Nieve was trying to flirt with her, I would have thought she would get the message by that point that Shireen either wasn't interested or just wanted to be friends. I don't know, that whole thing was weird to me. 
But I enjoyed Shireen's journey as she grew throughout the story and learned how she was treating people was not okay and also learned to apologize as well as forgive. Her characterization and growth was great throughout this book and I really liked the representation for black Benghazi people as well as fat sapphic women. She was ultimately a really great main character to follow, I just don't know if I would classify this as a romance book.