I’ve been looking forward to West’s story since we first met him in the second book (Nailed). It was fairly easy to guess that his love interest would be Sawyer, and I was, as always a sucker for books where we know both characters before their story. I have loved West since first meeting him. Maybe that’s the issue. Because Sawyer wasn’t anywhere close to being good enough for West.

I liked that West and Sawyer had a friendship. And, once again I find myself saying that no one owes anyone else a relationship. The problem is that in a few more recent books authors seem to be wanting to point that out by making one of the members of our couple just treat the other one unfairly. Yes. Sawyer didn’t owe sex or a relationship to West, just because West was a good friend to him. But at some point it goes from “I want to be friend, but we can’t be involved in more” to Sawyer just taking advantage of West. West never asks for anything from Sawyer, which I guess is good because Sawyer sure as hell wasn’t contributing to their relationship. Even the friendship was more upheld by West than by Sawyer. And when West decided he needed to start dating again, Sawyer completely freaked out and sabotaged West’s dates. I maybe could have been more okay with that if Sawyer had owned up to it before he got caught, but West literally had to catch him doing it before he confessed.

Sawyer worried because of their age difference, yet West was the one who should have been worried. Sawyer needed to mature. He may have been chronologically older, but West was much more emotionally mature. And it takes Sawyer way too long to just tell West “hey, my ex left me for someone younger, so I have that issue”.

I don’t know if it’s because the relationship between West and Sawyer seemed so one sided, but I also didn’t feel much in the way of chemistry between the two MCs.

I loved the “ducklings” and thought they brought a cuteness to the story. While not a major plot point, it was just sweet.

I always enjoy revisiting the other guys in this series. Particularly Ollie and Daniel. They make my heart melt.

I have a feeling we might be seeing soon-to-be Dr. Porter again, which definitely works for me. He was sweet. I honestly found myself wishing he were West’s love interest rather than Sawyer. It also looks like Porter’s story might just overlap with one of the newer Bears. I’m looking forward to seeing if that happens.

Another positive thing about this book is that we get some bi representation with West. Love that.

I still think this is a good series overall. And I’m sure West and Sawyer will be some readers favorite couple. They just simply didn’t work for me.