I truly believe I must have read a different book to all these 4 and 5 star reviews. This book fell flat in every way I’d have loved for it to succeed.

The main issue for me was how implausible and unbelievable the whole story seemed. The FMC studied nursing in Italy and then gave that up in the UK to become an actress after being a carer for her grandmother? Why wouldn’t she work as a nurse in the UK whilst auditioning? How can she afford a flat in London on her own working part time as a waitress on weekends and 2 night shifts at Zara? How can she look in someone’s eyes and see pain (which is mentioned every time she looks at the MMC)? I really struggled to enjoy this book because on almost every page I just had more questions.

The formatting of this book really grated on me as well. I really dislike books that do not use speech marks (“”) to denote speech, instead using apostrophes (‘’). It is such a minor thing but when speech is hidden in paragraphs using the apostrophe rather than using a new line for new speech, it makes it so much more difficult to read.

There were so many problems for the all the main characters in this book as well. There was parental suicide, abandonment, affairs, parents lying to you, death of family, unwanted attraction, and I could go on. With how many issues were crammed into the book it just found the FMC to be disingenuous and so difficult to relate to.

I was really excited when I bought this book as I had seen so many good reviews about it, but I struggled to finish it and would not recommend it to anyone. The story didn’t flow (likely due to the characters being in a new part of the world every few chapters) and all the characters seemed very surface level with no deeper substance, with only their problems being what we know about them. Really disappointing.