Oh man, this thing was alllllllll over the place. Characters were sympathetic one minute and the villain the next, there was some kind of dating bet/deal that I didn't really get, the purple prose was out of hand, and honestly, I am very over the name dropping of designer clothes to remind the reader that someone is rich. There are so many other context clues there to do that work, I don't need to know that her skirt was Balenciaga. (And also, how are you simultaneously proud of paying your way through college and working at a just-becoming-successful firm with none of Daddy's money and also buying many designer pieces of clothing?)

I find that LJ Shen books are hit or miss for me, and this missed by a wide mark. YMMV!

Thank you Montlake and NetGalley for the ARC.