Ok, so the premise of this book is cute…you could even say great. Slow pace, but there was a lot to build out and explain especially since essentially the duration of the book goes from 3 days to 10 days and then weeks. (Doesn’t make sense now but if you read it, it will.)
A failing actress, a K-Pop star…a new trope for me. As you read more about Fran and Jae-seung, there’s more complexities about them that honestly create a pretty good story. And the building tension between them, top notch. So much so that it hit 3 peppers right at the tip 😉

Then right around 70-80% I feel like things started to feel a little rushed and cramped and Clara started to absolutely suck and I found her so intolerable. Thank goodness she was a side character or else I would have stopped reading and not finished the book. 

Also, this book gives no hint at all at the trigger warnings! Oh my goodness. Please take notice if suicide, suicide attempts, encountering sucide attempts and death/loss of parents and grandparents are difficult and a trigger for you. Those parts within the book were very unexpected and heavy. 

The end of the book did have a happy ending (as one would expect) and everything was wrapped up nicely, but it did fall flat for me in that, by the time the end came around, I was just happy to finish the book because it became a lot. 

3 stars, 3 peppers. 

**ARC provided by Canelo via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review**