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Love must be one hell of a drug and the fog must be a force field because if Dane’s cheating wasn’t obvious; his consistent lack of concern for Ami and her needs should’ve tipped her off to that fact that he didn’t give a rats booty cheeks about her.

If it isn’t obvious from my previous post, I didn’t care for this book. So please forgive me in advance because this will be a long winded rant. I have nothing against the quality of the writing. But the story itself just wasn’t for me. I can be a sucker for enemies to lovers just as much as the rest of the girliepops, but in general, the quality of enemies to lovers as a troupe has gone down hill.

I feel some background info is required here in order to understand my review If you haven’t read the book. So I will speed run through a breakdown of the story so I can get to my qualms in my next couple posts.

As writers we can sometimes feel the need to be perfect immediately. We allow ourselves to get bogged down with unnecessary thoughts that only stop us from starting our goals, let alone even completing them. You’ve heard it time and time again, you may have even said it yourself: “well I’m a perfectionist so…. ‘insert excuse here.’