First off...thank you lord! Not one hashtag in sight!

I’d rather give this one 3.5 or 3.75 stars. It’s well written and had a lot I liked! I loved the relationships between Poppy and her girlfriends. I loved Ace. I definitely smiled many times over reading this one.

My issues are similar to issues I had with Alexa Martin’s first book. We only get Poppy’s POV which I think kept the story from getting below the surface. There was an unnecessary and unbelievable plot point of her having a stalker...it reminded me of how Marlee almost gets physically/sexually attacked 3 separate times in Intercepted. Like...what? Why did we spend pages on this? There are enough other plot points to keep the story moving forward. Since we get nothing from TK’s perspective I never felt like I could fully embrace him. He did many sweet things but mostly either came across as a raging asshole or a jokester with nothing below the surface. His medical diagnosis doesn’t come into play until the END of the story which made it hard to root for him on many occasions. Without understanding there was more going on with him, his behavior came across as toxic.

I know some people felt the ease that TK took on being a father felt unrealistic, but I had no issues with that component. I had more frustration over the fact that we got no scenes of TK and Poppy discusses their lives since losing touch as teenagers. And maybe this is nitpicking, but I was never clear on why he didn’t have his phone when she was texting him as a 16 year old?? So many things felt glossed over and unexplained. Oh? You’re here now and love me and your kid? Cool cool cool...we don’t have to discuss the last decade we spent apart.

I’ll see how I feel after the next book in this series. I like a lot of what this author brings to the table, but both her books have had issues that really kept me from fully embracing them.