How does one "lick the back of a guy's knees" when having sex? 
 Clearly Emily's focus is not hot and sweaty, bumping and grinding. She is completely focused on developing a story filled with love and romance and dramatic excitement! I like that in an author. Emily's growing on me. So then why only 3 stars? To me, 5 stars is too awkward of a rating number. Why not 6? That way you'd really be able to tell if it's liked or not. When it's 5 stars you have to explain why it's ONLY 3 or SO MANY stars! So let me explain via the perfect pros & cons method. 
 PROS 
 1. Very simple and well done writing. I don't feel overpowered by big words I don't know the meaning of such as in popular Britain based novels. 
 2. First person POV. I don't think people understand how put difficult it is to not use "I" when writing. I love when authors use this POV. Feels more real. 
 3. I love that Rachel is a struggling lawyer. Often times, in books about female lawyers, they're always well off. They're trying to become partner at their high end firm. The guy is an attractive lawyer as well, trying to make partner and the feminist lawyer thinks he's flaunting his well-tailored pinstripe to distract her gender from beating oppression. sigh. Emily's Rachel knows that she's struggling and she hates her job and her boss. But she needs money so she sticks around. 
 4. Her bestfriend Darcy is her biggest enemy. Makes Rachel feel insecure all the time by pointing out all the things about her that she happens to love but pretends to hate she can store compliments for a rainy day. Reminds me if my ex-bestfriend. In other words, a bestie like Darcy is real to a lot of people. 
 5. Dex is attractive. I mean, what more do you need. 
 6. A lot of adultery. 
 7. Conflict is well developed. Thank you Hillary! Read it you'd understand! 
 8. Add some cornstarch and voila! Left plot thickens. 
 CONS 
 1. It took too long for Dex to fix things! I started hating him coming down to the ending! I didn't like having to call him a pussy. 
 2. Rachel was such a pushover when she didn't need to be! I think she went too far trying to please Darcy sometimes. 
 3. I hate Marcus. 
 4. It ended pretty dry. I don't know if I want to read Something Blue yet. Though I felt the same way after reading Where We Belong. Ugh. 
 So there. 3 stars is s good rating. Not as great at 4 but good. Try it and see!