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Thank you to NetGalley, Emma R. Alban, and Penguin General for a galley of this in exchange for an honest review.

You’re the Problem, it’s You was a truly delightful read. A book as likely to make you laugh as it is to make you cry, filled with complex and beautifully penned relationships, and fraught with intrigue. This pulls you in from the first page, and the dual POV is the perfect way to fully enmesh the reader in this intense and lovely enemies-to-friend-to-lovers relationship.

I loved all of the characters in this book I was meant to, and despised all the characters I was meant to as well. Alban has a real talent for building groups and families, showing us each person, and letting us learn how the fit in. From start to finish this was a wonderfully conceived and executed story that touched on a number of very important topics, but never lost its quiet optimism.

I have not read the first book in this series, and whilst I do think I may have lost some context, I found by the end that I understood the dynamics at play. I loved the ending of this book, how it all came together, how everyone landed. Just overall a really gorgeous story.