This book started off SO WELL and just progressed into shit. The beginning was beautiful and wholesome but also there was pining and spice and it had so much potential and it just turned into a clusterfuck of “how do I make this book seem deep and like it has a plot” that just made it really weird. Also, whose idea was it to add the POVs of dead people, inanimate objects, and animals throughout?? it wasn’t quirky it was just plain bizarre and confusing.
AND THE CANDY BAR SCENE? I read a lot of spicy stuff but that was just bad and uncomfortable to read and just plain trash.
Overall, If L.J Shen had left this as lovers to strangers to lovers without the family stuff and the people that meant absolutely nothing in there, it would have been great but this was just a mess.