1) Off Base ★★★★½
2) At Attention ★★★★★

content warnings: (mentions of) loss of a loved one, serious injuries, medical procedures, homophobia
representation: main m/m relationship, main gay characters, side gay characters, side latina character

I didn't like this book as much as the first two, but that doesn't mean it wasn't still way better than it has any right to be.

I'll mention my negatives first, because this time I do have some. They're nothing major, but they're the reason why I didn't enjoy this book as much as the others. First, just in general I'm not a big fan of friends-to-lovers, so that was already something this book had to battle (to be fair, this is probably one of my favourite cases of friends-to-lovers). Also, and I can't really explain why, but the drama and angst in this book was just not as fun as the other two in some places. I'm aware that these are completely my own personal things though and not at all the books fault.

Those are literally all of my negatives. The rest was great.

Maddox and Ben are such good characters to follow and it was really fun seeing all the characters from previous books show up, but I need to be real with you: Camilla stole literally every scene she appeared in. Honestly, this woman might have become one of my new favourite book characters. She was really motherly and warm when she needed to be, but she was also a sassy bitch when she needed to be, and I straight-up was ready to sell my soul to her by her third scene.

I don't think I even need to mention this anymore, but the sex was amazing as per usual, though I don't think anything will ever be as incredible as the mirror sex of the last book. The voyeuristic scenes in this though were still very good, and probably take their place in second as the best sex scenes in the series.

This was not as good as the first two, but still really damn good and I'm hyped to read the next book.