It feels like her books are trying to do a little bit of everything, but nothing’s resolved effectively. The book’s set during a book festival and is meant to be a breezy beach read, but it was a pain to get through. The big conflict was the MC’s hatred of a fellow author who dissed her books and when he apologized, she tried to snoop into his personal life to find another reason to hate him. The MC acted like a bratty child instead of the thirty something woman she was. And when she wasn’t hating on the guy, she was super horny for him in a way that just didn’t work for me (all the talk about bulges and sexy feet made me cringe).

Her books also try to cram in things like LGBTQ+ rights, racism, and sexual harassment in ways that feel very shallow and go against the tone of the books. In this one, the MC finds out that another fellow author (not the one she hates, but a different one) is having inappropriate contact with underage readers and, instead of reporting him and while knowing this wasn’t a one time thing, she just kinda gives him a stern warning and lets him go.