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One Sentence Summary:
Exes and rivals Seth and Lana enter a dating competition with the winner getting a promotion, but feelings get in the way of their performances.
My Review:
I really enjoyed this book! This is the story of two high school exes who end up vying for the same job and have to compete in a series of public challenges that the other person created for them to get it.
First of all, our characters! I actually really liked both Seth and Lana. Lana was definitely my favorite, but I didn’t really see any bad characters besides Lana’s boss. We got enough background and insight into them to get a strong sense of who the main two characters were as people. They weren’t extraordinary, but I didn’t have a million problems.
This relationship had a whole lot of potential to have horrible boundaries because of the challenges, but they remained moderately healthy? Seth and Lana were aware of each other’s limits and didn’t set horrible goals for the other, only tried to push themselves. If I had to pick on one thing with the relationship, it would be that Seth followed Lana to LA. This is the second book I’ve read this year where the MMC follows the same career path as the FMC and practically takes a job opportunity from her after following her somewhere post-breakup. Weird. I feel like following the FMC doesn’t project “caring” when you’re ruining opportunities for her. Maybe that’s just me lol. Otherwise, I really liked them, but I wish Seth had been a bit more understanding during the situation at the end as Lana very clearly stated what would happen. My favorite relationships were just the background friendships!
With the plot, this was pretty simple and stuck to it. Lana and Seth are competing, they’re falling in love, etc. Wasn’t bad, wasn’t horrendously unique, and I didn’t have any issues with it!
I’d recommend this to people who like second chance romance and not-so-unrequited love. Is it the greatest ever? Nah, but it’s worth the read! We love Lana in this house.
⭐⭐⭐/5
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