5 stars This is a fun introduction to Nick Sosebee and her circle of friends, most specifically, her best friend Sean. She secretly has a serious crush on her best friend, but their romantic relationship is doomed because of a misunderstanding eight years ago. There are hints that Sean might feel the same about Nicki, but it is frustratingly opaque, and even by the end, we still don’t know how he really feels. I’m not sure if there’s a classification for this type of book. It’s not quite a cozy mystery because Nicki’s life is way too sexually explicit for that, but the mystery involved is not super high stakes. I’m not suggesting that the threat of death is not high stakes, but the feel of it is not because the reader never really thinks something bad will happen to the leading characters. There’s no sinister villain stalking Nicki and plotting his/her attack. Nicki is likable, although there's something tragic about her too. In love with Sean, she fills her life with meaningless flings with men she may never see again. She swears she is against marriage and children, but there’s a certain element of “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” I get the sense that it’s really more about what she thinks she deserves. For now, she thinks she deserves to have hot sex with a variety of men, but even she admits it is to distract her from her feelings about Sean. I found it frustrating and hope this doesn’t go on for too long. January 17, 2022
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