i’ll be honest, for the first half of the book, i was very confused with the direction of the story. all we got was emily complaining about her family, her career and the publishing world. not that i had an issue with any of it of course, because she was actually funny. 

however, up to the 27% mark, there still wasn’t anything going on with emily and mark. i’m okay with slow burn, but if they weren’t meeting up regularly then where would there be the burn? emily was also still going on dates with different men at that point, so i wasn’t sure if the romantic relationship would be properly developed. it was only until around 38% to 40% where we got to somewhere. 

for the most part, i thought their romance developed okay afterwards, but i still wish we had more time with them. the author’s decision to bring in mark’s pov for part two was also a good one, and that’s huge coming from me as someone who hates male povs. i think that made up for it a little.