A copy was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review 
 2.5 stars 
 This book is great for folks who like slow burn, somewhat angsty opposites attract romance with some love triangle type jealousy thrown in and a longish chase. It has many moments of culture shock fumbling and trying to understand and impress someone really different while not wanting to let the struggle be obvious. Ash definitely pursues a relationship with Fee, and it's a bit up in the air for close to the first half of the story whether Fee is going to agree to date him. A key to the humor was enjoying Ash fumbling and not understanding geek culture, and watching him work hard to learn about the things Fee cares about. 
 I especially enjoyed some moments, like the book club discussion, the dressing up for a steampunk dance, the bits about food, the dynamics at Ash's favorite restaurant. Places where it sunk into details were my favorites. I liked watching Ash's family at the end, too. 
 This is a m/m romance with a white POV main character and a Latino love interest, where the white MC has an accepting family and the Latino MC has a family that is much less accepting of his queerness. I cannot speak to the accuracy of this depiction, but I can say that nothing felt off to me as a white reader, and that it's ownvoices for Latinx representation. I find that often when I read m/m stories with a white POV MC in relationship with a man of color, I am troubled by the way that the white MC eroticizes the Latino MC, and I wasn't troubled by this; it didn't feel exoticizing to me, which is often what I find in stories like this. I appreciated that, as it's especially rare in this genre of romance. I also really appreciated that the Latino character was the one who was the geek, because the visibility of geeks of color is really important, and very rare in geek romance. 
 However, this story was not for me. I might have liked it better if it was dual POV; I felt like I barely got a sense of Fee, and Fee was the MC I thought I might connect with more. I was hoping for a more classic geek romance, where I get to witness a character sink into their joy and intense interest in something, but instead it was an outsider's view of geek culture only. I'm not into conflicts based on love triangles and jealousy, which were a central part of the conflict in this story. 
 I was a bit troubled by the pursuit part, it edged on stalking in a way that made me uncomfortable. This is directly referenced in the story by Ash, and he does seem worried that he keeps crossing lines, but he does keep doing it. I am sensitive to these things as a stalking survivor, so it might not bother other readers. 
 I was also troubled by the way it feels like Ash is being judged by almost all the characters (including himself) for having an active casual sex life prior to pursuing Fee. It felt like slut shaming. Especially as one of his longtime casual partners is aggressive and crosses boundaries and somehow people blame Ash for that, like this guy's sexual harassment of Ash is Ash's fault because he used to have sex with him. 
 Ash wants to have certain kinds of sex that feel like "real" sex to him and never talks about it, just waits for Fee to be "ready" and gets more and more frustrated. I got very frustrated myself, with the intense lack of sexual communication in this relationship. 
 The moment where it seems like the relationship is over was based in a big misunderstanding, which felt gratuitous and not very carefully drawn. Which was troubling to me, as it was about (view spoiler)[ family rejection, queer hatred, and queer hating violence. Not every queer story needs to contain queer hatred and violence. Inserting it so late in a story evokes queer tragedy tropes, and makes it feel like it's solely there as a plot device, which is disrespectful to queer people who survive queer hatred and violence. (hide spoiler)] These are sensitive things to write about and not something to toss in so late in a story. It also didn't feel real to me that Ash wouldn't have guessed that this could be an issue; what utopia is he living in? 
 Trigger Warnings: (view spoiler)[ Pursuit that edges close to stalking. Former sex partner sexually harasses MC repeatedly. Victim blaming around the sexual harassment. Slut shaming of the MC. Instance of parental queer hatred and queer hating violence described at 95%, in a way that reads like a plot device. (hide spoiler)]