I wanted to read this book because I enjoyed Mariana Zapata’s work, and this is one of her higher rated books within the book community. However, I think it’s just me, it was so slow. I understand it’s a slow-burn but this barely had a flame to start this.  

This book is based on Diana Casillas, and she doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing half the time. How she’s made it through the last two years of her life without killing anyone is nothing short of a miracle. Being a grown-up wasn’t supposed to be so hard. With a new house with two little boys that she inherited in the most painful way possible, a giant dog, a job she usually loves, more than enough family, and friends, she has almost everything she could ever ask or. Except a boyfriend. Or a husband, but who needs either one of those? 

I liked Diana and how she was raising those boys. She wasn’t letting anyone push her around and she would stick up for herself and those boys. That Karen or Candice needed a punch, and Diana had more restrain that I would have because I would have clocked her in the nose the second, she started. I love that the boys are also protective of her and the second some random man is talking to her at baseball practice, Josh and Louie are like who is that I don’t like him. I liked that Mariana took a while to explain that the boys were Diana’s nephews and not sons because you knew that they weren’t her children, but you didn’t know how or why. 

Dallas took a while to warm up to me and that’s because he didn’t speak to Diana when he thought she was being a creep and hitting on him which would have fixed the first 25% of the book and I would have loved for it to be a dual POV so then we knew what his issue was. I just couldn’t deal with all of his mood swings, one minute he was all you need to accept help Diana and the next he was being cold with her, he was giving me a headache. It was the way that Josh knew how Dallas felt about Diana before Diana knew how Dallas felt about Diana.  

I understand that it was a slow burn but waiting until chapter 22 out of 26 for a first kiss was insane. Their chemistry was like a seesaw, sometimes you could feel the chemistry and the angst and the next it was like they were family. I was just bored, and it became a chore to finish this book. I had more questions when this book was over as well? Did Josh ever see his biological mum? Did she come back? Did Candice leave? Did the team have an issue with the fact that Dallas and Diana started dating? Did Trip clean up his act?  

I’m hoping that the next book I read from Mariana Zapata is better than this one but the past two books I've read from her I've rating 3 stars.