Picked this up on a whim because of the title. Don’t know if I agree on it being so heavily P&P-esque as it is an enemies to lovers narrative. How they became lovers? That part still eludes me as I don’t feel the chemistry between them. It seemed more a relationship of convenience because that was where the book needed to go. But I certainly couldn’t tell you where the “aha moments” were for Trisha and DJ other than it being “oh shit I like [them].”

Working with surgeons, it pains me how terrible Trisha’s family is to her with a surgeon’s schedule. You don’t get to totally predict every time how long a surgery is going to take, or when an emergent case comes in. I know that is a pain point for families in real life, but especially with her dad also being a doctor, why are they not more proud of her??? (also, having gotten through the next two books at the time of this review, her grant just falls out of relevancy, like wtf that’s a huge deal!!!)

It was also hard to get me to like DJ because his “British English” was cringe and felt very disingenuous. Every time I heard “arse” I wanted to pull my hair out.

Also… can we talk about how Trisha can’t believe DJ would ever get racially profiled because, “This is California!” Girl please. Especially when you get to Yash’s book, I can’t believe she ever said something so ignorant. I genuinely laughed out loud.

I honestly wasn’t sure I was going to move on to the next books after this one because I was pretty meh after this one. The dash of spice we got at the end though was rather enticing, I’m not gonna lie. And I want to try whatever magical food DJ is cooking in real life.