I took some time to think about this book but honestly, I definitely didn’t enjoy this one as much. I felt that there wasn’t much about Felicity as a parent; she’s supposed to be this “struggling” figure but we don’t exactly see that. Her kids are off in college, in fact, we don’t see much of her interaction with her children either. 

The single parent trope became a convenient plot point, rather than being part of a plot (if that makes sense). It didn’t value-add to the story other than helping her meet the MMC. In fact, even in Jon’s POV, he didn’t interact with the children and it was only offhandedly mentioned later on. 

Weirdly enough, Jon ended up sounding very British after a while and it kind of threw me off because it didn’t feel consistent to the story plot.

Now Adam’s character felt like… it wasn’t necessary? It was a character that I knew the author wanted to include, because she wanted to see someone on the spectrum being represented in the book but honestly the character didn’t help the plot either. Much like many of the other characters introduced, nobody actually made an actual impact to the plot or to the characters. They were all very filler. Jon’s anxiety issues also seemingly became “cured”/“better” after he met Felicity. And as someone who was diagnosed as anxiety, I don’t know how I feel about this representation?

I don’t know, I sat down to think about this and yeah, I’m gonna say that I don’t think the plot was well thought out and neither were the characters. They fell very flat for me. They’re both in their late 30s and I’m in my 30s too but they seemed kind of childish to me? It was an okay-ish read, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it.