These are my personal opinions and this rating/review is not a negative reflection of the author or other readers who enjoyed it. This book wasn’t for me, but I hope others are able to enjoy it.

LITERALLY EVERY MOMENT MIA AND OLLIE SPENT TOGETHER. even the most bizarre moments made me swoon. like, at the very beginning they're playing a game of dares with their friends and Ollie is dared to jerk off in front of Mia and all i could think was 🥰🥵😌😍Ollie "touched" OW, let her give him a bj, watched her "touch" herself for a bit and he even went as far as putting on a condom but he eventually stopped because he went "soft" and deep down his soul was telling him to stop. i can't describe my love for this book yet this was not an easy read for me. it's about broken people and people who are trying to find the light in the darkness.

Sometimes even the darkest parts of us can become beautiful when seen through a different set of eyes.” i knew what he was going through and this is NOT the real Ollie at all. the whole time i was reading this scene, i felt his pain, regret, jealousy, and hate for himself. he was full of dark thoughts and it was definitely hard to read. i still love him though. he will forever be the Ollie who would read The Notebook to Mia. although this was the only very descriptive scene from Ollie, there were times where i felt uncomfortable reading his thoughts when he gets "aroused" easily because of his medication.

Customer reviews

I loved their love language, all their small touches that meant so much more. Brushing their noses, forehead kisses, lacing their fingers together, hugs from behind, whispering in each other’s ears. Omg they are the cutest. yes, yes i know this is fiction and this happens in real life and nothing is all sweet and perfect but still! a girl can dream... i’d fit perfectly inside her. she'd fit perfectly beside me, against me, under me, bodies entangled and aligned. every way, we'd fit without flaw. her body was my kingdom come. her divine kiss was my salvation. her soul was mine's paradise. mia was my evermore. and i'd known since the moment my soul felt hers.” i adore ollie. i want to hug ollie. i want to be hugged by ollie. and zeke, too. mia was a good h, but she had to grow on me. it was tough being inside her head. this boy is just too cute and swoony for words, so imma leave it at that. BUT imma tell y'all that he calls Mia, "my love" AND he read The Notebook to her while he cuddled her! if that doesn't make you swoon and fall in love with him right then and there idk what can phase you. we all need the love of our lives to read to us, lets be real here.

Stay With Me is a slow burn new adult collage romance that’s a little on the darker side, is told from the FMC - Mia’s - POV and is the first book in the Stay With Me series. but then it started to become slow for the first few chapters UNTIL we meet Ollie and his friends, and then it was all drama galore from there and i was H-O-O-K-E-D. i said i didn’t wanna give too much away, but that was a lot…trust that it doesn’t spoil much. there’s a lot more about this book than this man being absolutely perfect😩i do recommend reading this book, but again…it’s a heavy one so please be emotionally prepared and know the triggers in this book. the writing is soooo good…nicole fiorina ATE. this is a trilogy so please don’t expect a happy ending with this first book. speaking of the ending…can i just say how much i KNOW the second book is gonna hurt!?!? it’s gonna hurt a lot and i’m not ready yet🥲the only characters i love in this book are mia, ollie, and zeke. alicia and jake i didn’t mind…but the rest can go die slowly and painfully.

i was so scared, so so scared for the last 30%. but it actually kinda went downhill for me. that’s why i couldn’t rate this higher. everything happened kinda fast and i felt like the scenes and feelings weren’t fully developed. don’t get me wrong, it kept my attention, but it felt anticlimactic how fast it all progressed. i’m OBVIOUSLY relieved we didn’t get to THAT extreme. also... i just wanna say, ollie and mia knew something went wrong every time they “played” or drank with everyone else and they STILL put themselves in that position like 5 more times. dude. just don’t go. listen, i really dislike when either h or H is intimate with OW/OM after having strong feelings for their love interest or that they were already intimate with them, especially when this is not a second chance romance and there are no time jumps. im selfish like that ok? how can i believe they really love their love interest if they're intimate with another person when the love of their life is literally RIGHT THERE? she went from someone that annoyed me to someone i admired. we get to discover wtf happened to her and why she is the way she is and it was heartbreaking af.