girl stop LYING omg 😭

I'll give this book props for compelling me to even write a review because I never do. But I just have so many thoughts so here goes.

Man, what a FRUSTRATING protagonist. I do think it's refreshing to read a romance with a female lead who's quite flawed and not strictly likeable all the time. I initially was going to give this book four stars just based on the entertainment value, but coming down to the end, Tems started to irritate me too much for that to be possible.

I can't stand a mfer who can't give in when the jig is up! OMG GIRL. Just tell the TRUTH 😭. Goodness GRACIOUS. I'm so sorry, but she pushed beyond the limits of my sympathy when she got to Cali and was meeting this man in person as herself and STILL wouldn't come clean. Then she has dinner with him, and he CLEARLY knows and she STILL tries to keep lying. Made me wanna throw my phone.

I understood Tems as a fellow fat black girl, but she just took it too far. And she kept talking about how confident she was the whole book and I was just like clearly NOT with how far she's taken this catfish thing. Which, in all fairness, she does acknowledge that she wasn't as confident as she pretended to be near the end.

I also just was never fully on board with the romance like I wanted to be. I feel like all their interactions came across very flatly. Beyond his good looks, I couldn't see what was so interesting or enticing about Reuben.

There was also that whole thing with the roommate being racist that kinda came out of nowhere to me. I low key thought Tems was kinda mean at certain points in the book, and the racism felt like it just got shoved in there to justify her meanness even though things didn't seem that way before.

Lastly, a lot of the writing in here sounds like someone who is very Online, which can be a bit cringe at times. I just mean that there are a lot of jokes and turns of phrase that you would come across on Twitter, and it started to feel like okay, I've read this African parent insult online before.

Overall, I don't think it's a terrible book, but the protagonist made it harder to root for her at times, which isn't ideal for a rom com. I do think it was quite an entertaining read though.

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