📙 This was a sweet book ("sweet" in the normal sense of the word; there is some spice in it) in which the MCs worked through some tricky feelings of grief, parentage, filial obligation, family expectations, bravery, personal identity, and of course love. It was emotional but not in a tear jerker way. The side characters all felt real and fleshed out.

🎧 Dual 3rd person present tense POV, which was slightly hard to get in to at first. But both narrators did a great job. I'm not familiar with the Vietnamese culture/language but I'm pretty sure the narrators are natively bilingual, which the MCs are as well, so that was good.

🌶️ 3/5 There were a few explicit scenes. The chemistry was good and the on page action was all vanilla.

✊🏳️‍🌈 I'm pretty sure everyone on the tour is East Asian. There are a few white characters in the FMC's life in America but this is mostly a book about Asian people. The book touches a bit on the feelings of being part of the Asian diaspora (FMC) as well as a native Vietnamese perspective (MMC). A character on the tour that the FMC becomes good friends with is pansexual. There's a pretty big class discrepancy between the FMC and everyone else in the sphere of the tour (she is newly unemployed, previously a low status professor; everyone else is very wealthy).