A person who pretends to listen to your concerns and then does whatever the fuck they want anyway DOESN'T RESPECT YOU. A person who doesn't respect your boundaries DOESN'T RESPECT YOU. I realize this is fiction, but considering the atmosphere of the last year in the US, this stuff has to be called out. She had yelled at him about steamrolling her about something else earlier in the book, which turned out to be not quite as bad as it first seemed, but then she treats every other infraction as if there's an explanation for it beyond "he doesn't know how to respect boundaries". And Rebecca just LETS HIM FUCKING GET AWAY WITH THIS SHIT. He then follows this up by ANNOUNCING THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE ENTIRE TEAM. Did that give Nate the right to go behind her back and pay for shit without even discussing it with her? FUCK NO.Īnd when Nate and Rebecca are ready to bring their relationship public, he confirms that she wants to ease the team into the idea of their relationship (admittedly, he is specifically referring to PDA, but I think it obviously applies in general) and she says yes, that would help make her more comfortable.
Had she stopped going to PT because of the expense while also looking for other avenues of recovery? Yes. Was Rebecca worried about paying for the PT? Yes. Besides being an EGREGIOUS breach of patient confidentiality on the part of the doctor (who had also previously related medical information to Nate without Rebecca's explicit consent based on nothing but an incorrect assumption), it is an incredibly infantilizing way to treat someone you claim to respect. When Nate calls Rebecca's doctor and pays for her PT sessions, my jaw dropped. This spoiler isn't exactly spoilery because it's a romance novel, we know they end up together, but it addresses things that happen towards the end of the book But MAJOR ISSUES WITH NATE'S BEHAVIOR, see below. I'm giving this a more generous rating because I like Sarina Bowen's writing and it's cool to see a book in set in Brooklyn manage to get a lot of stuff right. He rolled over Rebecca's stated and unstated boundaries, A LOT. I did enjoy their story and I don't regret buying my copy, but I had a lot of issues with Nate's behavior. Sometimes that's a problem with arcs that cover several books. Was I 100% satisfied by their romance? Not quite. I liked Rebecca and Nate together, so let's get that out of the way.
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