There are a lot of completely hilarious moments in this book. Awesomely quotable lines. Ridiculous characters that are laugh out loud funny. There is all sorts of nonsense that is quite entertaining.

There is some bittersweet content with Julia's family. Anyone who knows religious groups like that will recognize what she was running from, though the author takes care not to be too specific and call out any particular group.

There is also a whole set of stuff that doesn't really make a lot of sense and isn't funny, so I'm not sure what the purpose is.

Grant apparently had this "big secret" - but it really wasn't a big deal and certainly not enough to explain why he moved away from his family. Uncle Vito has some sort of a gig going on, but it's never totally clear what he's into.

Spoiler

Grant's family is apparently mob/mafia (I don't read those books, so I don't really know the difference between mob and mafia), and his mom and grandmother were the leaders after his dad died. This was all well and good as a weird aside. But then Grant shoots someone in the head and kills him and they all move on as if that just an OK thing!! Including Julia!!! We went from weird and hilarious rom-com to "AM I READING MAFIA BOOK??!" in a split second. Again, I don't read stuff like that. I hate accidentally stumbling upon that kind of content at the end of a book, especially how casually it was treated by everyone. No moral struggle, no "what just happened?" He just killed someone and then they moved in together.

I love this author's books and I might give the next book in the series a try to see if this end part is just an anomaly. But as an avid reader I think it's really important to know who you're writing for, pick your genre and stay in that lane. The folks that read one kind of content don't necessarily crossover with other content. If you're trying to do crossover stuff, you can't let that be a surprise. You need to disclaim the heck out of that.