Thank you to the publisher for an eARC of the traditionally published version! 

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TROPES

🥐 Workplace Romance

🥐 Found Family

🥐 Single Guardian

🥐 STEM Romance

As a museum lover, this was an instant add to my TBR. Millie and Finn work at the same museum, but in different departments. When their paths keep crossing, the two become friends, and then something more.

Millie is a great character to be in the head of. Her inner monologues are things I find myself saying, and her fears are real. She’s worked hard to find herself outside of a toxic relationship, and she doesn’t let herself fall back into it, even when her situation could encourage it. I think it’s important to see her experience documented, as she isn’t the first and won’t be the last woman to have to endure it. As someone who also doesn’t talk to their parents, I feel for Finn. It isn’t something he enjoys or likes, but he is protecting himself and his nieces, and I’m always happy and thankful to see that represented. 

I love the ease at which Millie and Finn’s relationship blooms. They just steadily intertwin their lives until they realize they don’t want to undo it. While they’ve been surviving, they thrive with the help of the other, and it’s nice to see people come together like that. Finn may be one of my favorite MMCs I’ve read, simply because of how smooth he is, even when he’s sick.