Mariana started the year with a FUCKING BANGER for me. Her writing is fucking fantastic. This book was absolutely PERFECT I WOULDN'T HAVE CHANGED A SINGLE THING AND COMING FROM ME THATS A WHOLE FUCKING LOT.

Honestly, I don’t know HOW I AM GOING TO MOVE ON FROM THIS, I am going to have to force myself to pick another book up, holy crap. If you decide to read this, prepare to get hit in the nutsack of your deepest feels. This was so fucking romantic. So different than my usual stuff, billion times better than a boring predictable romcom. This was REAL LIFE AND I WANNA BE LOVED LIKE THIS.

Before you jump into this I just to make sure you know that this is a real slow burn. Probably the best slow burn I have ever read. They have no sexual encounters throughout the book and the entire story focuses on their emotional development and connection with each other, and to be honest with you, I have read so many Saffron books recently that I am sick and tired of having a large amount of sex scenes placed in a book just for the sake of it. They lose meaning, the relationship looses it's appeal, even sm*t needs to be measured and controlled for a book to develop decently.

This just gives me Emily Henry vibes, real life vibes. Down to earth characters, grounded female protagonist (it is so hard to find one of those, believe it or not).

Their slow burn was so well developed that even the slightest shift in their communication made me feel like I was at Disneyland on a roller coaster, with Mickey Mouse sitting next to me, having a heart attack, Santa Claus was in the seat ahead singing me happy birthday right after I found out the Easter bunny was my dad. While on cocaine, the roller coaster was about to go down a 90 degree drop just for us to get splashed with chocolate and water at the end of the ride and they hadn't even kissed yet.

And that is how you write a slow burn.

I cried at the end. No, I didn't cry. I sobbed.

I don't know if it was because I was on my period or not but they were happy tears. This was a happy story and I just felt warm, tingly, happy and loved in all the warm places. This is a comfort book, a happy book, a loving book. Almost 600 pages and it felt like nothing. I totally recommend this one if you consider yourself a romantic person. This would be an adorable movie.