I had an interesting time with this book! Primarily because it is a classic middle book of a trilogy in a lot of ways, where there has to be continuing existing conflict, and especially when it's a romance trilogy where the main pairing have already met and gotten together to some degree in book one--there has to be a reason they haven't gotten to the happily ever after yet, and are stuck at happily for now, and that's hard.
It's especially hard, I think, in a series like this, where the central conflict of the first book is that Kim is keeping secrets from Will, and while not every issue would be resolved if he just stopped doing that, so many of them would be that it feels increasingly convoluted that he won't come clean and just tell him what's going on. It's slightly better in some ways that he's keeping secrets from everyone, not just Will, but man.
Having said all that, I still really enjoyed this book! The dynamic between Will and Kim is so good, the sex is extremely hot, the commentary on the Bright Young Things is very funny, and Phoebe and Maisie are delightful. It just felt like it went back to the well of undisclosed secrets and unreliable narrators one (or two) too many times, for my liking. I'm definitely looking forward to the final book of the trilogy, though.
Grade: B
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