Podcasters Maeve and Finn have just gotten a life-changing, blockbuster deal for their viral sex and relationships podcast, Tell Me How You Really Feel. Unfortunately, given their history, they can barely be in the same room together.
Now, Maeve needs to find a way to keep the show going without letting Finn completely ruin her. But to make things even more challenging, Finn is dead set on winning her back over. Told between flashbacks to the start of their show and the present, Tell Me How You Really Feel follows Maeve and Finn as they navigate their growing celebrity, try to make podcast history, and rediscover what they mean to each other.
Tropes:
- Friends to Lovers
- Miscommunication
- Second Chance Romance
- Workplace Romance
- Forced Proximity
Tell Me How You Really Feel is told in a dual POV and a dual timeline. The reader gets flashbacks throughout the novel to fill in the gaps of what has taken place up to Maeve and Finn’s podcast becoming famous. I did find that bouncing back and forth with the timeline could get confusing at times. This book is a quick read and if you can look past the miscommunication trope, you may enjoy even enjoy it as well. You can tell that the author wanted to touch on some sensitive topics as we touch on the subjects of pay gaps between men and women and also anxiety.
I really liked the podcast moments, I wish we would have had more of them. I found that these moments were my favorite parts. Most people that know me, know that I am good at pointing out the hypocrisy in situations. Even if it is my own. That was the one thing in this book that was super frustrating to me. Maeve and Finn really lived by the “Do as I Say and Not What I Do” way of life. Here they are giving advice to people in a podcast but they wouldn’t apply the same advice in their own lives. Then this is where the miscommunication trope thrives.
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