i'm a little concerned ali hazelwood can only write one plot.

("maddie," you say.  "it's more reylo fanfic, of course it's kind of similar to her other books."  and i hear you!  i do.  you raise an excellent point.  but i am concerned.)

mara is a sunshiney scientist whose waist can easily spanned by liam's hands, since he is a Redwood Of A Man.  he's a grumpy lawyer (lawyer!  not a scientist, so we get a little something new) who immediately fell head over heels in love with mara and is doing his best not to show it.

it's a good trope -- it's a great trope, even.  i just wonder if we'll ever get a plot that isn't enemies to lovers but secretly in love the whole time but the heroine has no idea and she's so tiny and cute and he's so big and broody.  and if we do, will i trust ali to do it right?  will i trust her to write even a normally-sized woman, let alone a plus-sized one?  will i trust her to write a heroine who maybe struggles with mental illness on the page and isn't quirky cute all the time?  will i trust her to write a hero who knows how to communicate?  i don't know.

but this is good.  it's cute, if you liked TLH you will inhale this.  *i* inhaled it, and i was just so-so on it and TLH.  LOTB remains my favorite.