Love Flushed by Evie Mitchell

After reading and loving KNOT MY TYPE, I was super excited to dive into LOVE FLUSHED, especially since the heroine has Crohn's. I don't have Crohn's but I have a serious food intolerance that often causes me to have intestinal cramping, vomiting, and diarrhea. I have had to experience bathroom anxiety and bowel incontinence for years, due to problems with my diet, and it is the actual worst. And there's a lot of shame around talking about it, because it's gross, and people don't want to hear about it, which is why I snap up every spicy tummy book I can get my hands on. I want to support the cause.

Annie owns an eco-friendly toilet paper company inspired by her bathroom struggles, but she needs a supplier-- her current ones don't share her ethics, not when they can compromise them for a better deal. Cue Linc, the owner of a papermill and her ex-lover. After he betrayed her in the worst way, she can barely stand to be in the same room with him, but since their friends are getting married and they work in the same industry, it's hard to avoid each other. Especially when they each have something that the other needs.

I didn't like this book as much as the first one, but it was still really, really good. I loved the way that Mitchell included Annie's chronic illness in the book and it was all just so beautifully done, and made me feel really seen. The backstory between them also made sense, and even though I'm not usually a fan of second chance, I felt like this was a pretty solid way of going about it without making one of them the bad guy. I just wished they had a little more chemistry between them. I usually love Daddy kink but I wanted more from it than what I got here. Frankie and Jay melted those pages. Linc and Annie felt barely warm.

That said, this was a very cute, short read and I'm always a huge fan of male and female friend groups that actually uplift each other. If you're looking for something sweet and somewhat low-angst (apart from the sob-sob backstory that nearly did make me cry), this is your book. 

3.5 out of 5 stars