This was fun in the sense that I enjoyed the exploration of kink, but as I kept on reading I started to notice that that’s… really the only thing that Lukas and Scarlett seem to have in common.  Sure, they’re both on the swim team and they both like science and blah blah blah but I couldn’t really understand or see how they had a believable relationship past that, especially since they seem to have very silly miscommunication issues outside of their sexual scenes. At the exact same time, this is a romance book where the male love interest is barely even around on the page and maybe that’s why I find the progression of their relationship even hard to believe. The relationship development between Scarlett and Penelope seemed richer than that of the apparent main couple lmao. It’s a shame because I was really feeling the book throughout the first 40 or so percent, but it just kept on dragging on with no real tangible relationship progression and, as a result, the book just felt bloated with shit we didn’t need. A romance book that’s longer than 400 pages needs to prove to me why it needs to be that long, and I'm afraid this failed.