Spoilers Ahead: 

This book was a rollercoaster through and through. I wasn’t fond of the author’s book that I first read, but I had already bought this one, so as the first one was quite an easy read, I tried my luck with this one. 

We follow Bella, a DJ, at one of her sets when she spots Ava, an older woman, and decides to ‘put the spotlight on her’, which is a thing that she always does, shining the light at one of the prettiest women in the room. They end up having sex, and then they part. 

The next morning, Bella’s best friend, Sophia, invites her to breakfast with her mum - surprise surprise, it’s Ava! They try to act like nothing is going on between them, but they can’t stay away from each other, they end up hooking up and falling in love, you know the drill. Ava’s ex-husband also turns up, a drunk and with a gun, and he shoots Bella, but she’s fine. Sophia finds out, but isn’t too mad as she saved her mum’s life, and Sophia also gets with their mutual best friend and roommate, Kaylee. Bella and Ava do end up getting married. 

There were a lot of things that I didn’t like about this book, unfortunately. One of my biggest pet peeves was the editing of this book. Same as the previous book, I could tell that the editing of this book was not done properly at all. Spelling mistakes, issues with the people talking (it was mixed up in some points, and this made it very confusing, with the wrong people saying the wrong thing), and punctuation mistakes - pretty obvious ones as well. And the worst one… ‘sexist’ instead of ‘sexiest’… which definitely ruins the mood when you’re trying to write sexier scenes. It almost feels like this book was written, and then just published without a second thought. 

It felt very much the same as one of the books I’ve read recently, ‘Mistakes were Made’ by Meryl Wilsner. The plot was almost identical, even going as far to be very loosely based around space, just like Wilsner’s was. Obviously, when the content is pretty much ‘copied’, it left no surprises, and it became very predictable, and it was lucky it was a quick read, because otherwise I would have had no motivation to finish it. At least Sophia was a much more enjoyable character to read about than Parker, in Wilsner’s. 

Around three quarters of the way through, I had become sick of the sexual content. It was almost every chapter, and it was getting boring. It brought a Wattpad, unrealistic vibe to the story, and I love developing character’s relationships, and this had none. It was just purely sex, then bam! I’m in love with her?? The pacing was so fast, the timing just too unrealistic for me. 

Minor point, but I thought the characterisation was a bit off. Bella seems like this unnaturally fearless girl, so why is she so scared about her best friend finding out? The vibe I got is that she’s not scared of anything, but that was sort of a contradiction. I liked the characters, but I think they tried too hard to be funny, and the conversations sometimes weren’t natural. Overall, I’d just say this book, and this author, just aren’t for me, unfortunately.