4.5

okay wait this was really good. I don't always love second chance romances, but i did love this one. and this one had fake marriage too. and the FMC was an artist.
so anyways, I loved the characters. Macks was a little weird sometimes - like that cursing? I mean you do you but okay. I really don't read enough books where the main character is an artist, so I forget how much I love those characters. I love how different they see things and how sometimes the world is described in colors and shapes rather than in words and I just relate to that. I'm not sure I would consider myself an artist but I do like to paint, so just reading about Macks painting and the studio she worked from just sounded like a literal dream.
okay okay, enough about the art and Macks, now Walker: I didn't love him, but I also didn't *not* like him. he was your regular billionare CEO, inherited the company from his dad, dad put clause in will that he couldn't get his part of company with getting married - you know the guy. but while his character wasn't really new, him and Macks together were, and I did like that.
even if it was just their stubbornness getting in the way of them being together a few times (miscommunication for the win as always *insert sigh here*), they did get a happy ending. and a well-deserved one in my opinion.
overall, I think eva ashwood has written yet another great book again. it's not a reverse harem or as dark as some of her other ones, but I loved it just as much. it is just a little slow in the beginning. but once it got going. I was hooked.