This is a very unfortunate DNF at about 25% for me, and I'm so upset that it is. I really loved The Girl Next Door and so I was very excited to read this one and even more excited to have an ARC of it but it just isn't working for me. I'm not loving the main characters, Autumn and Tara, while they might work for someone else, they slightly annoy me for a reason I can't quite put my finger on. The reason they're enemies is a little shallow, and it seems to be a spat they could work out in 5 minutes if they said more than a few words to eachother (which I'm sure they will if I had continued with the story so I can't gripe too much about this). And the writing in general is not my favorite, I honestly can't remember if this was a thing in The girl next door or if it maybe just didn't bother me as much but it's a bit much on the teenage slang and pop culture refs. I really wish that this had clicked for me because I hate to DNF it and maybe I'll come back and try it again in the future but for now this wasn't for me. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC and I hope this works out better for others than it did for me. I'll still be interested to see what Cecilia Vinesse releases in the future regardless.

I really enjoyed the enemies to lovers element in this story and thought it was a fun concept overall. The characters were everything that I was hoping for and worked with the setting of the story. It was everything that was promised and glad I got to read this. Cecilia Vinesse has a great writing style and left me wanting more like this.