i'm making a mid-read prediction:

asher

knows that gemma and wren are not the same person, and has known since wren gave him her phone number or later. he started to realized the truth and maybe lies about still talking to gemma. he just genuinely likes wren and is trying to get her to do fun things and go out of her comfort zone.

after reading:

okay so... i was right, kinda.

i really liked this book up until the

plot twist of ash posting things online about wren. not asking permission is one thing, but not deleting hate comments, keeping it from her, and barely defending your girlfriend is a whole other thing.

i stopped liking ash after this. no matter how good or pure his intentions were. this is what knocked it down from 5 stars to 4.

in every romance, there's always a betrayal. And as a romance reader, i know that they will get together at the end. it's a feature of the genre that i love. but also it becomes soul crushing when it means forgiving almost everything someone did that hurt you. it's okay to be hurt and to move on. maybe that's why i don't love adult romances, too many second chances are given out. this is kind of a tangent. this book didn't do anything that bad, i'm just starting to realized something about how i like my books. also, i clearly don't love these characters, because if i did, i would've probably forgiven

ash like wren did.