I'm so conflicted. On one hand I really enjoyed Gray and Maya. Their dynamic was everything: slow burn, grump-sunshine, 'I'm too broken to love' and just MWAH! But I find that I really struggle with ensemble casts. In book one, I really enjoyed the chapters we got of the others but in this book it felt like it detracted from the romance. We barely got to see Maya and Gray in action together. I felt like their dynamic was definitely there but it's like the authors didn't try to explore it at all. I just feel like the authors missed the mark by constantly focusing on other members rather than showing Gray and Maya's dynamic. Which is fine, except I'm reading this book to know about GRAY AND MAYA and also the other group members. I get they're trying to build up tension for Dani's book but it kind of annoyed me.

I certainly understand that fleshing out the secondary characters, setting and worldbuilding is important. I just think that the perspective of this book focused so much on that, they forgot this is supposed to be following a couple.