I can't decide between a 2.75 or 3 star rating for this book. I'll probably err on the side of generosity and give it a 3, because if you had asked me in the first half of the book how I felt, I would have told you that I loved it. Jalaluddin's writing occasionally reads a little saccharine for me personally, and her dialogue can be stiff at times, but she infuses enough heart, warmth, and quippy humour that I can look past it. I found all of the things that I loved about her writing in Hana Khan Carries On, and I was enjoying the You've Got Mail-style romantic developments, but the further I got into the book, the more exasperated I felt. 

I prefer for my romance reads to have more going on plot-wise, but I think I counted around 18 different plotlines (or sub-plotlines, or dropped plot points, or underdeveloped points that had less bearing on the story than I would have thought at the outset, or threads wrapped up in an easy sentence because there wasn't time or space to deal with them more thoroughly). It became very scattered, in my opinion, and sometimes lost impact. I was also super disappointed in the "plot twist" at the end, because it was melodramatic in a way that didn't fit with the rest of the story. Even after finishing, I still have questions about the purpose of so many things, big and small. I could have used either more book, or less clutter. It isn't even that I didn't enjoy the various elements of the story, but that they might have been more interesting spread across more pages (or more books, honestly. The "plot twist" could have made an entirely different book). 

In the acknowledgements, Jalaluddin said something about her first book taking much longer to write, and I think it shows. I'm still excited to read Much Ado About Nada (freaking fabulous title👌) and see what I think about it.