So I adore NHIE: Punched my Roommates V-card, but I skipped the second and third book in this series because they were tropes I don't enjoy. However, I decided to read this one even though it is my least fav of enemies to lovers, because I had fallen so in love with Eli in the first book. So what the heck happened between the first book and this one???
In the first book Eli is calm, cool, collected, unflappable, never awkward- this is not even the same character. I understand people are nuanced, and I love when someone emotional and needy hides behind a facade only the other MC can break through- that is not this case. Eli is all over the place, constantly. In how he talks, how he feels, how he's intimate. Serious kudos for the cam scene with the gifted dildo though. That was excellent. Thank goodness no matter Eli does West just thinks this aspect of Eli is "so sexy".
I tried to forget any preconceived ideas I had about Eli and get on with the book. Then I ran into the issue of suspension of disbelief. Could everything that happened in this book have gone down that way? Eh, Possibly... but also not probably. It felt forced.
I guess the whole book just felt chaotic and I was left unsettled and somewhat confused. Not with what happened, but just ..why it happened that way.