i tried to give romance books another chance in the name of christmas forgiving etc etc but oh my god i wish i didn't waste my time. this read like the worst kind of fanfiction, with a flowery language and a relationship that we're supposed to root for and love even though they have no development or chemistry and characters who we're supposed to already know. and then i saw that it's marketed as a rwrb-like book, and i was like. wow. alright. this makes sense. because this literally reads like a rwrb fanfiction. though, no offense to fanfic writers. i'm sure i could easily find one that would be written better than this book. because, god. some of the sentences genuinely just didn't make sense? they were so long that it feels like the author got lost in their head and then left us without any points made.

also. "wear nothing so I really can put Coal in Your Stocking." brother in christ.