I read “Easy” in high school around the time it came out, and reread it multiple times. It was one of my favorite books and the first “adult romance” i read. Reading the same book from Lucas’s POV was soooo fun. I remembered why I loved Easy so much, it’s almost like a comfort read for me. I loved how obsessed Lucas was, he had a CRUSH from the moment he saw her it was adorable. I will say, reading this book is just to get Lucas’s POV, you don’t really get a lot of their conversations and their emails back and forth are cut out of this one, I think the author didn’t want to be redundant relaying the same conversations in this book. I think maybe if I reread Easy first, or even tandem read them, it would have been a lot better. Reading this book after not reading Easy for 8+ years made me feel like I was missing a lot of context, I kept thinking “they’ve barely talked!!”, but they have we just don’t see it in this book. This book is also filled with a lot of chapters from Lucas’s life as a teenager, and at first I was like “why do i have to read about him with all these other girls…” but i realized that we are getting context as to why he was so scared to be in a serious relationship with anyone. In HS he lived in a tourist town and girls used him as their “bad boy phase”, and of course what happened to his mother had him go through a rebellious phase. We watch him struggle and then get his shit together with the help of Dr Moore.