I've seen enough excerpts of this one on Booktok to know I was going to like the characters and I was not disappointed. My one concern is that my internal Scottish and British accents are legit trash so occasionally I had to re-read sections to make it make sense in my head. Freya/Cookie is so cute, we love a nickname, and I love that she had a fun job as a seamstress/designer, she was relatable and fun, and had that self-depricating inner voice that so many of us plus sized ladies have. It felt honest to me, she would make pragmatic comments that felt like things I've said about myself and we're all on a journey here. Mac was adorable, very cinnamon-roll-esque with Freya, not just a jock douche which feels like such a stereotype in some books, definitely pictured him as a ginger Gerard Butler which helps. I appreciated their banter and the spice was great. I have not read the other books in the series, read this as a standalone, could have used some info from book one, but it wasn't so much as to pull me from the story, would have just added to the side characters.