Ok, so this started off good. It was a little fast moving but I really enjoyed Maisie and Gio together.  Gio is an F1 racer and Maisie is a sports psychology student and formerly a mountain bike racer but she left the sport after a bad crash. There was a couple of points that annoyed me like the miscommunications that resulted in blow up arguments but overall, the start was great. Ava, Maisie’s F1 obsessed bestie, is probably my favourite character and I wish we got more of her.

Then there was the rest of it. I have a theory with F1 romance that they are all either great with the romance and bad with the F1 or great with the F1 and poor on the romance. This was the latter.

Everything was miscommunication, they were fake dating with a contract in place and yet somehow broke up like 3 times. He was not capable of being in a realtionship at all, he never communicated, shut everyone out and was generally really immature. She was a psychology student who didnt think, was really naive and blew everything out of proportion. 

The rest of this is going to have a lot of spoilers because otherwise it will just be criptic and weird. Read them if you want to.

Miscommunication is the bain of my fucking existience along with another little romance book cliche:

the third act break up

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There was a third act break up and it was the part that annoyed me the most. He got injured so she flew out to see him. He was angry that he would miss a race, and tried to insist that he could drive with a sprained ankle. She agreed with medical advice and said he needed to miss it. He got pissed and they fought and broke up.

Things really blew up right at the end with a tonne of stupid decisions on both their parts. 

The last one especially annoyed me. There was a weird psychology to blame her and make him look better thing going on in this book but quite frankly it was just stupid.

She runs into her advisor at the supermarket and they go out to coffee where theydiscuss the final break up. The advisor is a psychologist and asks maisie if anyone asked for her opinion about Gio racing (which no one did but she said she agreed because thats how conversations work and it was an incredibly normal thing to say in that situation especially considering her trauma???) It was very weird and the whole converstation was basically, “Maisie it was your fault not his” when that was not the case.

Anyway. Rant over. 

And I was thinking my biggest issues were going to be that it moved a bit too fast and that the author was trying to hard to create confict in the relationship.