There is no "meeting" phase or "wooing" phase or anything like that. Page #1 and the love interest basically jumps in with, "You know all those months we've been working together? I've been attracted to you since day one." And that's it. Then they've having sex. Since they already met months ago, and he supposedly already liked her months ago, we don't get to see any of that. We just jump right into them being together. It moved way too quickly for me to enjoy.
Also, Luke was nauseatingly "perfect". I'm putting that word in quotes because it obviously wasn't perfect for me since I didn't like it, but it was very stereotypically perfect. Always saying the "right" things, etc. I wish I highlighted some quotes to share, but I guess I didn't.
I guess it made the book feel very cheesy to open up on page one with this gorgeous, ripped, always-saying-the-right-things, super rich baseball player being like, "I've loved you forever." (To be fair, he didn't say "love", but you get the point.)
I also didn't like the conflict. It was all built on a miscommunication and the MC being a stubborn ass hat.
She found out something about Luke that upset her. She gave him the cold shoulder, Luke kept being like, "What did I do wrong? Please let me explain! Whatever it is, let me tell my side of it and apologize." But due to some weird ass kind of pride, she thought it would be better to pretend that nothing was wrong:
"Nothing's wrong. There's nothing to fix or explain or apologize for. I enjoyed my time with you, but it's over."
Uhh how fucking dumb is that? She tried to explain her reason for lying, but it was still dumb as fuck. At least tell the poor guy WTF is going on.
And by the end, I thought the book made it sound like they tackled more than they actually had:
Like meeting Luke. Falling in love with him. Slaying a legion of demons on my journey toward doing so.
It sounds like she overcame some HUGE ASS stuff based on that quote. Like deep emotional issues or confronted ghosts/demons from her past. Like Ten Tiny Breaths or On Dublin Street. But NOPE. They literally just had an argument, and got over it. There was no "legion of demons".
I'm massively disappointed because this book definitely had potential. If it was longer and more fleshed out and less, "I've loved you since before the book started", then it could have been wonderful. But it was too short and too insta-lovey and too shallow.