This was a fun, though at times heartbreaking, read. Lizzie and Rake are both flawed and lonely and in need of love, though show it in very different ways. Watching their journey from one-night stands (ok two-night) to friends, to lovers, to more was entertaining.

Lizzie grew up feeling like she was strange, wrong, and unloveable; a feeling that hasn’t changed much as she’s gotten over and failed time and time again in her mind. Lizzie’s neurodivergence was not embraced by her family, so she has grown to see it more as a failing than something that she can adapt to. This hit me very personally.

Rake was betrayed and hurt by someone he thought he loved and has determined that he doesn’t know how to love and that he should avoid romantic entanglement. He writes off his growing feelings for Lizzie as friendship and attraction in order to protect himself from being hurt.

Together they both challenge and encourage each other. Rake thinks there is absolutely nothing wrong with Lizzie and the quirks that comes with her extreme ADHD and is almost always quick to defend her.

There are of course miscommunications, arguments, and all the drama that come with two strangers trying to create a life together while denying that they are falling in love. And it’s all presented in a humorous, quick-paced manner that I enjoyed.

Disclaimer: I received an eARC of this book through Net Galley on behalf of the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.