3.5 Stars

I really wanted to love this book more but I just couldn’t. I loved the opportunity attraction type of story the author was going for and I loved Cassidy. One thing about Cassidy that bothered me was that she purposely went for “straight girl” like it was okay and I don’t think that’s the message the book should be sending. It sends a negative message about the LGBT+ community and even though there are ppl like that, I wouldn’t want to recommend this book to someone and have them think that people that identify as LGBT+ go after straight people on purpose.
Outside of that most of the issues I saw with the stories came from the characters not so much anything else and it was mostly Katie. As a person who’s been in her shoes, she seemed misrepresented as “the girl that comes from the religious background family” and who’s family (and she herself) has certain expectations of her(self). The instalove for Cassidy happened within the first 100-ish pages which seemed like too little time for them to even get to know each other or for Katie to discover that she wasn’t straight but actually pansexual/bisexual(?) and have a self-acceptance moment since she’s thought all her life she was straight and has just broken off her very long time engagement with a man.
I don’t care about the “Fade-to-Black” sex scenes because a ton of authors do it or skip the graphics stuff like in Red, White, & Royal Blue because you know not everyone’s going to write raunchy sex scenes like Sarah J. Maas, unfortunately.