What I Liked:
1. Hannah - I love Hannah’s desire to go from side character to leading lady in her own life. Truthfully I really hate when women feel like they can’t take up space in their OWN life so I loved seeing her character growth and actually going out of her way to ask for opportunities. I also appreciate that she didn’t come out the gate demanding to do music and just asked to shadow/observe. Even though she does have her leading lady moment with the sea shanties idea. In real life, that probably wouldn’t have happened so easily but this is fiction. The other part that I really appreciated was how much faith she had in Fox. She could tell his **** boy reputation bothered him and as soon as she learned that she tried really hard to show him that she didn’t see him that way AND that she didn’t care and wanted to be with him anyway.

2. Fox - I loved the dual POV of this novel because we really got to see the introspective side of Fox. I think if we didn’t have it, we wouldn’t really have known just how much people’s low expectations actually hurt him, especially coming from his close friends. I think this gave his character so much depth and I liked seeing his character start facing things head on instead of running away because he’s afraid.

3. Slow burn - usually Tessa Bailey books are NOT slow burn type books. But given Fox’s character and Hannah wanting to show him that he’s more than just a booty call, a slow burn makes sense. Granted the two week trip is not actually slow but what makes it feel like a slow burn is all the texting and stuff Hannah and Fox have been doing beforehand. Just talking about anything and everything and all of that leads to this two week trip.

What I Didn’t Like:
1. Two steps forward, one step back - every time there was any sort of progress between Hannah and Fox, we took a step back as Fox grew insecure. For the first few times, I understood but this became a CONSTANT theme for them, literally down to the last moment in the book.

2. Lack of fishing - something I really liked in It Happened One Summer was how much exposure we got into the fishing. This book barely touches on it and really focused more on Hannah’s film world than Fox. Honestly, this is kind of nitpick-y so I won’t let it affect my rating.

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