this was overall such a delight.  it may be trying too hard at times, i certainly think you need to kind of handwave the timeline of them falling in love, and the final conflict was, frankly, ridiculous.  but the writing really sparkles and each character feels like a fully formed person, even though the narration is single pov.

for two characters who spend a lot of time together on the page, you really don't see a ton of them falling in love.  it's a short book, and so i think we could have done with more of that, or the extant scenes being fleshed out a little more.  but in the end, incredibly charming.

CW:

homophobia, death of parents in a traumatic accident (off-page), sibling survived cancer (off-page)