3.5 
 with I Want It That Way i was delighted to find a story dealing with real college young people problems, but i have to admit that the book was kind of boring, because it didn't deal with nothing else beside that and the main character's love life. lauren was not a character i was much interested in at the end of the first book, but i was curious about her problems. that's why i picked this book up soon after i finished the first one. 
 my biggest problem with this book was the same as with the first one: it didn't happen much. there was no more story apart for lauren and rob's and that was a bit slow sometimes too. in the end, the whole book felt like watching a soap opera where nothing mostly happens, but you cannot stop watching just in case something happens. but the book had some advantages: there were hot, steamy scenes, and the love story was sweet. 
 i did like robert, he was such a great guy. i know he is hot because it was told, but i never felt it. he was so honest and had so many self-esteem issues i couldn't quite believe that he was soo handsome. i felt sorry for him because of the way his family treated him (or it was said they treated him). if he knows his limitations, he is much smarter than most of the people out there. i hated that he didn't dare because he thought he wasn't enough and loved the way lauren was able to support him and make him believe in himself. 
 sadly i didn't like lauren herself as much as robert. i thought that a great part of her didn't match what she told us she was. she kept her anxiety issues a secret, but at times i thought she was too outgoing, too extroverted and social to have such problems. probably she was overcompensating. anyway, it felt weird to me. at moments, i also felt like the issues and being a nerd were kind of tied together like one was the consequence of the other, but that could have been my appreciation. 
 all in all, i think the book is a nice contemporary romance fiction for adults. this one felt more for adults than the previous one, but probably because the problems the main character had to deal with weren't as material and tangible as money, scholarship and college. nevertheless, it was a good, entertaining read. 
 thank you to netgalley and harlequin for providing me with a copy of the book