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Could be my current mood but I felt like Goldilocks and baby Bear's porridge about this one. Everything was just right.

The prolonged emphasis on the mutual crush and nervousness and pining and 'OMG he couldn't possibly like me, right?' was sooooo good.

These MCs knew each other before the events of the book but they didn't immediately jump each other's bones the moment they had 'a moment'.

I think it's just so rare for me to feel like a crush is fully explored (and yes, possibly it's because I tend to read books with older MCs where it's like so are we doing this or......) but I felt like this one was really well done.

Ditto the will they/won't they. I usually find it a bit too little or too much but like I said, in this I found it jusssssst right.

The conflict. Again. Just right. One got to have his moments of doubt and self discovery WITHOUT BEING A DICK to the other, and he managed to figure it out right in the sweet spot before I could be like..... DECIDE ALREADY!!!

So again. Could be my current mood. But this was just what I wanted right now.