1) Off Base ★★★★½
2) At Attention ★★★★★
3) On Point ★★★★
4) Wheels Up ★★★★★

content warnings: death of a loved one, grief, alcoholism
representation: gay black main character, demisexual/grey asexual main character, main m/m relationship, side gay characters

This dumb, cheesy, cliche-ridden series has stolen my entire heart and I'm 100% okay with that. First off, as usual, this is still way better than it has any right to be in literally every way possible; writing, plot, characters, relationships.

This book reminded me a lot of At Attention, probably because it has similar themes of grief and main characters losing loved ones, even if the situations are extremely different. This was a far more serious book that a lot of the others with the custody storyline, and I really liked how that added drama to the book. SpoilerYes, the wedding solution was cheesy but so is the entire book and the entire damn series so idgaf, it was cute as shit.

I loved how the sex scenes always had a focus on Mark's sexuality. He never settles on a definitive label at the end of the book, toying around with both demisexual and grey-asexual, but Isaiah is always aware that he's on the ace-spectrum and this is factored into the sex. A lot of the steamy moments don't lead to anything more than making out, and when it does go further it's mostly just Mark doing things to Isaiah. But it's also acknowledged that sometimes Mark does like doing sexual things. Overall, this book just had really good a-spec rep, especially for an erotic book.

Once again, Annabeth Albert writes cute kids who I find endearing. I don't think you guys understand how hard it is for me to give a shit about kid characters, and yet I always do in this series. Also, as per usual, seeing previous characters (particularly Dylan and Ben) was a complete delight.

This book made me fall in love with Bacon, which is good because the next book is about him. He's also pan which I'm super excited for!