"Just wait until book 3," they said, "You'll be Team Conrad."
You were right.
Alternatively, "The cheating was forced and out of character. It was just so Belly and Conrad could happen." To this: It was not so out of character. Jeremiah is flippant in nature, and he could be madly in love with Belly, but he'd always have some wild card to him. He might do something he'd regret horrifically, but he would not have the ability to keep himself from doing so in that moment. And he's been in frat for 2 years. His braincells are probably FRIED from all the testosterone and alcohol (Jenny not wanting to actually write out the character development).

Conrad's character is much steadier (hence why it took him 20+ years to finally act truly on his feelings), but once he finally did, that was game. And reading from his perspective had me WEAK ok because men who pine >>> I would also like to believe that Conrad has had some significant character development at this point (which Jenny conveniently did not have to write - she just sent him away for 2 years) and is much more in tune emotionally.

Aside from that little character rant, this entire book was not about Belly and Conrad. It was a breakup saga, like talking about how Pangaea fell apart while trying to tell a story about how India is now a part of Asia. And it didn't even include Belly and Conrad getting together. We didn't even get to see the Himalayas form. This geological metaphor is not working for me.

The story was about the wrong thing. If I am meant to be rooting for Conrad (I am), I need Belly to not be WITH another man and ABOUT TO MARRY HIM the entire time (which is another qualm. In what world.) We skip straight from Belly and Jeremiah about to get married to Conrad and Belly about to get married. What about the ups and downs of a relationship, what about the moment where they are finally just happy together? Is all we get an epilogue and a bunch of letters???

Which brings me to my next point - Belly was basically cheating on Jeremiah their entire relationship. She has to get with Conrad. Even if Jeremiah hadn't cheated - he did not deserve to be with someone who was mentally cheating on him for the rest of his life.

It is 2 am. I concede any other thoughts to the sleep goblins. Anyway, I rated this book higher than the other ones because Conrad is so in love.

I still hate love triangles. ESPECIALLY the part where Belly literally breaks up a family, and somehow gets away with it. It can't be hard to be a decent person who doesn't do that.

Additionally, Anika is a great friend and Taylor was much more likable THAN BEFORE in this book, which doesn't necessarily make her good yet. Jenny has this thing about "people who came first" loyalty as if they're not toxic friends and that is manipulation at its finest - which - both the Fisher boys know a helluva a lot about manipulation. New tangent. Sometimes their bratty and spoiled side comes out when they don't get what they want then start pulling the bits of the truth to get people to do what they want. Especially to Belly, eternally a people pleaser. Anika called her out on that. Anika has her back. On the same track of manipulation, Jere is a love bomber. Now I'm really done.

I am not done. Conrad really became likable in this book. I can see why Belly had a crush on him. What I cannot fathom is how in love Conrad and Jeremiah were with her. She is so bland. A woman written by a woman should have character and Belly doesn't. She must truly be drop dead gorgeous. It's as if we as the readers are told simply that Belly is desirable and we're just meant to run with that (for the plot). Also, she is literally homewrecking, between BROTHERS. Their mother died and she is tearing them apart to the point where their relationship will probably never be the same.

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