3 ⭐️

Spice: 0/5 🌶️

Format: audiobook

Narration: 🎤🎤🎤🎤/5

Cute, but ultimately unremarkable and forgettable.

I think my biggest issue was that the author seemed to want to pack in as many tropes as humanly possible, which added nothing to the characterization and just made their already strained forming relationship have a super shaky foundation.

Charlie was very sweet but I felt nothing from him. He was super bland. And Dev was overly complex. It just wasn’t the best match up for me.

I did love the premise of this book. Gay Bachelor, but falling in love with a producer instead of one of the women. But the reasons Charlie went on the show never sat right with me, and I think if he was truly there to find love and found it in an unexpected place, that would’ve been cute. However he just would up coming off disingenuous.

I appreciated the attempts at mental health and neurodivergent and demisexual representations, but again, there was just way too much being pushed into the narrative that it was messy.

I’m going to stop picking up books based solely on the cute covers. They never end well for me.