4.75/5 stars

Thanks to Sourcebooks Fire and Netgalley for providing an e-arc for me to read in exchange for an honest review.

Let's be honest. I went into this book with low expectations. The only other book that i've read featuring a character with CP was "I'm special and all the other lies we tell ourselves". This made me a bit nervous as i found the author to be arrogant and annoying. This shouldn't be worrysome considering having the same condition won't make you have the same personality traits but nonetheless i felt worried.

I. Loved. It. Jenna Cohen was an interesting main character. She wasn't flat either. Shes not the most lovable character yet you'll still get frustrated at her at times. For christ' sake she's even secretly talking to a lawyer. It was her uncle though so it wasn't that intense.

Now let's talk about Van Beck. Didn't like him at first. I don't know why did but i just hated him. Probably how he reacted to the "That's what she said" joke. Thankfully though it was slightfully talked about by Jenna's father towards the end.

On the note of the "That's what she said" joke, let's get onto the reason why i didn't give this 5 stars. The amount of pop culture references. There were so many references that it felt timed and timeless at the same time. Timed in a sense how a person reading this in about 20 years wouldn't understand the majority of the references. I didn't either to be honest! Then it felt timeless, some references are extracted from 2018 and some are from 2012.

As my last thoughts, i'll just rapidly list the things that i loved in this book: The semi-slow burn romance, CP rep, Dyslexia rep, how Jenna handled his Dyslexia and how she was considerate about it, Present parents and last but not the least, the ending!