This book had a lot of absurdities.
The main absurdity was that a man who was convicted of manslaughter who also had drugs in their system, only got 3 years in prison, and the person who died was the Police Chief's son. That is the other absurdity, that nobody even on the state level prevented him from being involved with the case. Granted, that would have made everything else in the plot fall apart before the book even started. It also didn't make any sense that the car that was in the accident was just sitting at his dad's garage, when it would have been in police impound, regardless if the case was closed or not. It, just didn't make sense.

Something else that was missing from this book, was Jude's sponsor for his addiction with the NA meetings. I guess it was to force Jude to go at it alone, but it didn't make sense that he never had one.

I believed this romance a little more than the one in the first book. That was a years long relationship that was broken by a tragedy and kept apart by years. So their fast-paced romance was more realistic. They were, in part, making up for lost time.

One thing that I really hated was the pretentious "internal soundtrack" shit at the start of all Sophie's chapters. They were cringe at best, and added nothing to any part of the plot. Not to mention had nothing really to do with anything, other than remind the reader that Sophie was supposed to be a musician. Her character in high school had big aspirations to be on Broadway, those fell through so whatever. But true music fans, the ones who love to preform, the way her character is portrayed to, would find a way to do music in anyway they can.

I did feel that the resolution of everything happened really fast.

I honestly called it that her shitty brother was also an addict/a dealer about half way though the book. I was also assuming that Sophie's brother who was actually responsible for the crash. Another massive absurdity, her father only got three years for tampering with evidence and filling false reports, hiding evidence, etc. There is no way in hell that he'd only get that little time, especially when you take it all into account. Especially, with him being the Police Chief.

I will likely read the next book in this series. It will be Zach's book, and while I am curious about his back story.