Desire and the Deep Blue Sea

So cute, but I really feel like this could've been a full-length novel easily - there's a lot of exposition in the beginning that would probably have been more interesting/impactful/whatever if it'd been shown and not just told to us, like all the stuff about Callie's terrible boyfriend and her anxiety and how she can't stand working on desk with Thomas seems like it would be worth actually showing, at least for a bit. I also wish a little more had been done with the fake-relationship premise, because that's one of my favorite tropes and I feel like it was a little underused here. I could easily see myself giving this 4 or even 5 stars if it were longer, but as it is, it felt just too short to give me everything I wanted. I really liked the characters and the premise, though, I just wanted more. Novels for everyone!

(2019 summer romance bingo: “beach on the cover”; would also fit “show business” or “road trip,” depending on how loosely you're interpreting those.)