If there is one book in this series that I am not happy with, it’s this one. Not because it’s poorly written or anything, it’s the same as all the others. I’m grumpy that Amazon doesn’t allow for half-books in their series listing resulting in me reading this thinking it was book two of the series when in reality it’s book 0.5 of the series that tells us Nick’s backstory.
Some of that is on me because I could’ve (and should’ve) looked at Goodreads to see the series’ order, but I didn’t. So, I just blazed into this one and then immediately was like wait WTF is happening?
I started this book on the plane home from vacation in the Dominican Republic. I wasn’t ready for vacation to end and had shockingly finished my school reading. I decided to check this book out after reading 
As I mentioned in my review of 
In all honesty, I had no intention of reading this. I didn’t even know it existed, but when I stumbled across 
I requested a copy of this from NetGalley the second Jenna mentioned it was available for requests.* You see, Jenna and I started book blogging around the same time all those years ago and I remember bonding over some of our aligned reading tastes, but I also remember when she started to talk about writing and NaNoWriMo and all the other things that went into the drafts and early works of the novel and we’ve stayed in contact on Insta, oh hey internet friend.