this did not go well for me. i tried the audio and the narration was so annoying and felt very immature, so i switched to the digital and things did not improve from there. i love rom coms and was excited to read a book that was centered around them, so i enjoyed the parts of this that felt very much like a love letter to love stories and romantic comedies. however. the actual love story of this book and the love interest were not at all romantic to me. charlie is an isolated asshole who thinks he is and knows better than pretty much anyone. i disliked him after the first meeting, which i know i was supposed to, but he never did enough to fully endear himself to me, and then he started rejecting emma and it got worse. to have him point blank reject her TWICE because of some misguided hero complex was deeply annoying and i didn't really want them to get together! i didn't even like emma that much either! she was also kind of an asshole (the stuff with her sister especially) and the amount of times i had to put down this book because she was insulting her own hair or literally asking charlie if he didn't want to be with her because of her hair was so frustrating. if you told me they broke up i would believe you. i think i'm done with KC after hello stranger and then this? her characters and writing are just not for me.