This book won’t be for everyone - and that’s okay, I don’t think it was meant to be.

If you’re looking for the average romantic comedy style book, please keep in mind that this is very much genre bending, and not something I would categorize as “romance” in the sense of Emily Henry.

This is a story between two characters and the worlds they live in, and create together, inside their minds. Aldo has previously suffered from substance abuse, and is heavily autistic coded. Regan is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. This is a story of two people finding love that is messy, imperfect, and a good chunk of the story is written as if you are also in a manic episode.

To the reviews who didn’t like the sudden style change - this happened as Regan came off her medication and started experiencing her bipolar disorder without her medication, which is why her POV suddenly starts to read as manic. It’s not pretentious, it’s deeply character based and immersive.

Something I would have appreciated was the authors note in the acknowledgment before the book began. Blake talks about her own experiences with having bipolar and shares that it’s a story about a woman with bipolar who learns to live without her medication through therapy, while falling in love with someone who understand her at the same time. She shares in this passage that it is in no way a recommendation for others to stop their medication without medical guidance. I do appreciate this very much, but I think it would have been better served in the beginning of the book. I also think it probably should have had a TW attached to it.