📙 I quite liked this book. This was a gender swapped contemporary retelling of The Music Man. It has good values, the story was interesting, the characters were diverse (although not by race or ethnicity; mainly we have a fat FMC and an MMC with autism, but the characters almost all appear to be white). The banter was bantering, which I'm always here for. And there were little Easter eggs in the text for fans of literature (Chaucer and Titus Andronicus as "appropriate" reading lololol) and for fans of musical theater (ALW digs).

🚫 One of the central themes is censorship and book banning, and our MCs are on the side of good there. The MMC, a librarian, fights the fight of the just daily. The FMC is a con woman with a heart of gold, so she only fleeces bad people who deserve fleecing (abusers and the like). There's also just mentions in casual conversations about bigotry and censorship sucking, which may be obvious but it's also good to see the MCs (and the author) have good values.

🎧 Dual POV, dual narration. The FMC narrator didn't have a ton of different voices for the side characters, but the main ones were still distinct. The MMC narrator had good delivery.

🌶️ 3/5 There were a few scenes that were explicit but mainly just their firsts together were detailed. After the first time they sleep together, the remaining encounters are largely glossed over.

🏳️‍🌈✊ Fat rep (FMC). Autism rep (MMC and his sister). The pair of teens that help out our FMC are queer. There's a drag queen character featured in one scene. But more important than the specific character appearances, this book has good politics woven throughout (see above).