I'm pleasantly surprised by this book. With the summary it really could have one of two ways: One ist two people just staring at each other, rambling on how attractive the other one is and avoid talking to each other for the whole book, until the just solve trauma because they talked to each other once. Second is a more gentle approach about people slowly healing and recognizing that you can try to navigate this life alone, but it'll make things unnecessarily hard.
I'm glad it was the latter. It was a story of two people showing up for each other. I liked how healing from trauma and loss wasn't displayed as a linear thing. How things weren't all bliss even after Eleanor found a way to deal with the death of her mother. How Grey falling for someone again didn't mean he was anywhere ready to be someone.
Only the fact that they did go from their first kiss as adults directly to having sex felt needlessly rushed and a bit pointless.