Double Shifting

These two somehow managed to turn their love declaration into a fight. A HEATED fight, and not even in the sexy way💀😂. How?????

This was surprisingly good! Unconventional in that from the blurb, I thought the conflict would be 70/80% in and Dima got his memory back and got mad at Rory for lying. FALSE! Rory confesses SEVENTEEN PERCENT IN, and the rest of the book is about totally different plot points. Isn't that amazing?

And I'm just now realizing this book had so many tropes, without seeming trope-y, so that's another win.

Obliviousness on BOTH ends.

Miscommunication so bad that they keep at it for FOUR years.

While being close friends the ENTIRE time. Nah. How bad at love do you have to be for this to happen???

Amnesia trope done well.

I'm not a huge fan of fake dating (fake marriage in this case) but the why was believable at least.

The pining. God! Okay Rory's was interspersed with a lot of insecurities and self-doubt but still.

And the full circle moment where Dima got the chance to fully understand the choices Rory made? Sooo satisfying.

Honestly I really liked this.