slap my ass and call me nicky because i'm out here stalking all of Cate's work. not a single one of her books disappoints and this book is no exception. the approachable yet descriptive writing style, the flawed characters, the obsession, the groveling, the tropes, the HEAs. i can't get enough of it.

the only reason this book isn't five stars like run posy run, the previous book in this series, is because i felt a bit lost at times about the direction of the storyline and the characters. nicky really walked the line of being a psychopath like dario from the first book, yet he wasn't....i  think. and we did get a glimpse of some origin story but it didn't give me all the puzzle pieces i needed. he stayed pretty ambiguous even with him having his own POV.

as with run posy run, please check the content warnings that Cate lists at the beginning of the book. muah!