Take a Hint, Dani Brown

made me smile sometimes and their banter was nice. but i honestly just didn't relate to danika at all. this is all shade to me but work is not my life and it actually exhausts me to hear about peoples lifestyles like that. like please take a nap before you start to stress me out vicariously. i thought the smut here was decent but sparse. like why was i 50% the way through waiting for it? i might be biased because i think the 1st book has one of my favorite sex scenes of all time. i enjoyed this while i was reading it but also wondering every chapter why it was going on so long? hibbert has a tendency to add a breakup scene at the end. this one felt more necessary than the one in book 1, but still, i hate seeing characters ruin a good thing over nothing. trust me, i have my own share of flaws: i get super angry and mean, sometimes play the quiet game like a baby, truly so sensitive people have to walk on eggshells around me ((yes i've been accused of this) TO MY FACE). but, i always get so detached when someone's achilles heel is the relationship being...too good? breakups can be traumatic and being cheated on can literally change your brain chemistry but i also feel so much empathy for the person who comes next. no amount of reassurance and honesty can heal someone who can't trust you. it sucks for everyone involved. i guess what i'm saying is, if i was the bf in real life, this would be the most nonsensical and frustrating fight ever, which makes me not like it. but this is also just a reader preference. this is more of 3.5 for me! but definitely more on the lower side. it just doesn't compare to book 1. at all.

p.s. i switched between and ebook and audiobook of this one and i might have been swayed by the sheer britishness of it. AND there were so many times the italics was begging the narrator to change her inflection of voice and she just did not. no shade but the audiobook made the experience worse. everytime she cursed, i felt like she was mad at me for making her say them because her voice was so delicate and soft. but that part is probably just in my head.