The narration of the book was really good, and I loved how the author narrated a wine, food pairing between each chapter. I enjoyed this book, it was very enjoyable going along visiting European 3 week vacation. The book is read-narrated in two different perspective. The first half was in the point of view of Theo, the second half was in the perspective of Kit. The 2nd half Kit realized that Kit wanted to use pronouns They-them. It was confusing for it to switch through the middle of the book,

This author always has the best tight, fun writing with great one liners and pop culture references. However I do think this is one of their weaker works. Nepo babies with no chemistry or thoughts except 24/7 horniness was quickly tiring.

Gahh this book is scorchingly sexy and painfully emotional and I loved it!!
Best of all - the sexiness comes not from wild sex acts, but from the intensity of being known and sharing an intimate moment with the person who knows you best in the world. Gosh I love sex scenes where characters are stripped bare physically and emotionally and revealed to each other on a journey to a relationship and these scenes made me feel so many things. Surprising no-one, Casey McQuiston knocked it out of the park with this one!

The one downside to the book was that something didn't quite gel with the emotional payoff towards the end. The pining is top-tier but because it was so great I wanted a little more of a push when they got together but it felt like they kind of slid together? Which makes sense given their history but it wasn't a swoony as I would have liked. Besides the ending feeling a bit rushed, I loved everything else about this book. If you love second chance romances and books that are gloriously queer this is the book for you!

-Bedsharing/only one room
-Pining for days!!
-Second chance romance
-Best friends to lovers to exes to lovers
-Sex-positive! - bisexuals having lots of casual sex with no slut-shaming
-the sexual tension is palpable
-the emotional angst of old intimacy is so painful I loved it 😍
-Is it Over Now? and Now That We Don't Talk by Taylor Swift in book form (if you're a 1989 TV fan you know what I mean)
-dual pov (1st half in Theo's pov and 2nd half in Kit's)

Narrator note: I loved the narrator that read Theo's parts. Emma Galvin added a wryness to their chapters that really brought out Theo's personality. However, Max Meyers' choices in Kit's chapters didn't really work for me. He decided to infuse his voice with a lot of intensity and read his lines with a constant uptilt which I think was meant to be part of an accent choice but it really threw me off and took me out of the story (which is a shame cause Kit's chapters make up a decent chunk of the story). If you have the choice I'd stick to the physical edition for the second half of this book.

Thank you Netgalley MacMillan audio and st Martin's Press for the read now earc & alc my opinions are my own. Not sure how much every book Casey writes is absolutely the greatest book then they write another. This felt like the same world as rwrb and could envision this on screen and expect to see rwrb characters on the mega yacht. They write the most incredible thoughtful and delightful characters and stories and I am sure people feel seen by their books. I will absolutely be adding a copy to my forever shelf. It was so hott!!!