I received this free eARC novel from NetGalley. This is my honest review.

This has been on my TBR pile for so long, and I'm glad I finally got around to it. I really enjoyed the storyline and seeing the characters change throughout the story was a great character development. The plot was great and kept my attention. I'm glad I got the chance to read this and will be on the lookout for more in the future!

This might more accurately be a high 3/low 4 type of rating for me. Now this is a big of an odd one. I enjoyed it, and thought it was quite addictive, though I do have several issues with certain scenes/dialogue/reasoning for actions. A bunch of it didn't make sense to me. Plus, the enemies to lovers aspect which I usually love was very drastic and sudden in this novel.

Ultimately, this felt like the love child between Bully by Pen Douglas and Under The Lights by Abbi Glines. (I don't even know if UTL was out yet when this was released but I just read that before this one so...). But back to Bully, there were one or two scenes that were blatant Bully rip offs. It was so obvious I had to roll my eyes.

All in all not a bad novel, but it'll stay in the shadows between those aforementioned books in my mind. It was good, but not great.

But hello angst at the end! Loved it.

1.5 stars really. It would have been 3 but I think the author took the fight at the end too far. How can he be in love with a woman and tell her that he wished she had died instead of his sister? I don't care how mad he was or how much he missed his sister that shit is messed up. And the way he put his hands on her during that fight was at least borderline physical abuse.