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Yeah, I shouldn’t have read this. I had an idea on how it would play out based on how their backstory and this author’s latest works are, but I liked Ashton Scott so I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt, and I wish I hadn’t because now I’m just pissed off😅

Jack and Jessica dated 6 years before *he was already famous at this time*. They were together for two years and supposedly the love of each other’s lives, so much so that they got their initials on each other too. Jessica was supposedly having a hard time with the media and people constantly picking on her, and Jack who has Bipolar disorder (although I don’t really see any of this in the story), was struggling more and more with alcohol, and Jessica’s father was also an addict. So, Jack tries to give her an out by letting her think he cheated on her with the lead actress in his film. So they break up but still have to see each other every once in awhile because of their mutual friend and her boss, Ashton.

During those six years, Jack was addicted to pretty much everything, bingeing, sleeping all around, in relationships, and pretty much replaced Jessica with his friend names Josephine, who was a completely useless character and did more bad for their relationship than good, who he was also in a relationship with a few times and also sleeping with, and likes to pop up at random times in the story (Jessica also doesn’t like her). Essentially though, he never acted like he missed jessica until he was in the same vicinity as her, and then all of a sudden its like oooooo I miss her so much, I’ve been watching her, I regret the past and blah. The highlight though, is Jessica has been sleeping around too, although her sleeping with women stint was way out of left field.

Anyways, Jessica is playing Jack’s sobriety companion for a week, in which Jack all of a sudden thinks that they should get back together (where were you the past 6 years Jack?) And from there it’s just repetitive pages and pages of her saying she hates him and she’s gonna stab him, and him acting like he has done nothing wrong and that he’s so charming and loves looking at her a**. She of course has BBS constantly even though she’s supposed to be SO tough, and almost kisses him multiple times but then hates him as soon as she calms down. Jack, who hardly grovels or shows regret, finally tells her he didn’t *fully* cheat like she thought. He did wait too long to stop a kiss from another woman, but didn’t sleep with her or anyone else until AFTER they officially broke up🙄. Jessica is mad that he lied and they wasted time, then sleeps with him of course because him sleeping around the whole six years and replacing her with another woman is romantic or something 👍

What the final straw for me was how his good friend Josephine is in the story, who he stays friends with, and is SUPER friendly with and means SO much to him, that Jessica has to start being friendly with her too. Meanwhile, Jack tells Jessica he doesn’t want to hear about men shes been with and shiz. Like okay hypocrite👍 it’s fine for you to have your fbuddy and ex in the story and stay best friends with, but you can’t even BEAR to hear about her exes.

Anyways, I don’t think I’ve ever hated a couple being together so much. Wait no, the couple from War of Hearts by this author was worse and also the start of the downfall🙃 but there was no chemistry, and no scenes or instances of them being together in the past, which we really needed because I still don’t get why they even like each other🤔 All we get is them f*ing other people, him completely moving on, and finally wanting her back when its convenient. Although I did DNF, so I’m not sure what happens after, but her getting back together with him with a lame apology from him and no grovel is pure trash, and I had a pit in my stomach the entire time until I finally couldn’t take it anymore.

Lastly, this book was way too long for such an egh couple😅 also, I’m totally fine with cussing, but 600 *F* bombs in a 374 page book made me want to bash my head in and was also pretty unprofessional of the heroine. Like let’s at least change up the swearing please😅 it was SO repetitive and made them sound super aggressive and pissed off all the time (which the heroine was but she had BBS everytime she was near him so it made it more annoying) and it just feels like this author’s books are constantly going downhill. I think she’s *trying* to make them more emotional, but all I’m getting lately is the heroine being treated like trash, a disloyal hero, repetitive drama and dialogue, and romance I can’t really root for anymore, which is such a shame because I really liked her MC series too. So this book just further ensures I need to keep away from her books unfortunately.