Just reread this for the first time since my first read and it’s still amazing.

original review below:

When all of you were raving about this book about a year ago, I was traumatized. I wanted to tell all of you to shut the fuck up and leave me alone. Especially because I don't trust a single raving review that comes from tiktok.

I am so glad I waited this long, because once all the buzz was over, I decided to pick this up. I did it on audible too, and oh-my-sweet-landlord-age-gap-loving-jesus-fuck. The hype was real and DESERVED.

I already fell in love with Mariana Zapata after reading The Wall of Winnipeg and I knew I was going to enjoy this. However, I thought I was going to enjoy this like a normal person, and not let it consume my body, mind and soul the way it did. This book is soul-crushing in the best way. This book will make you question if your husband loves you enough.

I honestly will never be able to put into words what this book did to me. A classic Mariana Zapata, slow-as-slow-fuck burn, where the wait was worth every single second, I honesty wouldn't have changed a single thing about this book, that's a rare thing for me to say.

Again, her stories appeal to my poor Earth Sign heart. Down to earth, loveable real characters, simplistic writing, the most incredible grumpy-sunshine story I have ever read. I honestly recommend this on audible SO MUCH because we get this male narrator for MR RHODES and I swear to God, I get goosebumps just thinking about his voice.

A masterpiece. That's all I have to say. Just read this. This should be everyone's first Mariana Z. book. Just make sure you really like slow burns. This was incredible.