*3.5 stars*

I'm feeling very conflicted about this book. On one hand, I adored the couple in this. They were so sweet together, they understood and comforted each other, they communicated really well, there was a refreshing lack of unnecessary conflict between them, and the steamy scenes were really good. I loved the grumpy/sunshine dynamic and the slow-burn romance. Moreover, even when it was a low-angst, low-conflict, slow-paced book, I was entertained the whole time.

On the other hand, I didn't feel completely comfortable with the way this handled the appearance of the hero. It's established very early on that he is ugly, which I appreciated because we need more protagonists who don't look like movie stars. Nonetheless, this fact was repeated so many times by the main characters, by every single side character, and by random characters that only appeared once. Honestly, I think it was mentioned on almost every single page of this book, so I feel like it was overdone and it reduced the hero to his appearance which I think was the opposite of the message that it was trying to send.