3.75ish, not quite a 4 but still very enjoyable... 
 So this one was a bit difficult to judge. I read it in a matter of hours and it felt a lot more like a novella than an actual book. I will say that these 3.75 stars mean just what they mean - I enjoyed this book. However, I think unfortunately it's rather forgettable. Ugly Love continues to reign as the best Hoover book I've read so this falls somewhere in between the awesomeness of Ugly Love and the below-average of Hopeless. I had issues with it and will discuss below. 
 The story follows a dual narrative like all Hoover books and we meet Auburn who lost her love at age 15 to cancer and we now see her five years later as she's tried to get on with her life. She's not doing too good, desperately needing money she takes the vacancy in the art gallery which is when we meet Owen. Owen owns a sort of flash-art gallery that only opens once a month and it's all very trendy and hipster. His painting are in demand and all are titled by confessions that random people leave on his door. The romance blooms from there as these two characters connect. 
 One must never forget that despite everything Hoover writes romance novels, this is what we're here to read and I think Hoover does above average what others in her genre do mediocre or even badly. New Adult is a place where it can be pretty good and it can be pretty awful. 
 This book is pretty straight forward - you have bad characters with no redeeming qualities and you have good characters filled with altruistic actions. Our female protagonist, Auburn cries quite often in this novel - granted she's in a very difficult situation but I wish she didn't cry as often as she does. She certainly had that damsel in distress vibe going on until the very end which became quite frustrating for me. Owen was the interesting one out of the two but I still feel that Hoover does much better when the character's self is what is getting in the way of their happiness versus the outside forces. There was tons of clinches and slut shaming and I just can't get into that. All in all - cute, quick quick read. A good palette cleanser which worked great for me because I've read 3 back to back 500+ books and I needed to just... rinse. This is what this book is, a quick mouthwash before you go off to better things.