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

content warnings: family member with a heart condition
representation: main m/m relationship, main gay character, main bi character, side gay characters

I wasn't expecting this one to be a contender for my favourite book of the series, but here we are folks. Apparently the Strauss boys will steal my heart every time.

I already really enjoyed Dustin in At Attention, but this book gave him so much more depth. It feeds into one of my favourite tropes, which is when a character is viewed one way from an outside POV and then gets their own POV and you see how they really are. I also loved Wes, and his entire family to be honest. Apparently there's just guaranteed to be one woman I love in each of these books, and in this one that was Sam.

Dylan and Apollo's cameos were also incredible and I'm complete trash who wants another entire book about them.

The dynamics of the relationship between Dustin and Wes were also incredible. They have a D/S relationship which I thought was explored really nicely, and was constantly validated as a normal relationship people can have (my one complaint is that I wish we had gotten more discussion of safe words). The sex scenes were also incredible, in large part due to the fact that quite a few of them take place over video chat which is a personal favourite sex-trope of mine.

I loved the different discussions that took place in this book, about sex and kink and bisexuality and family expectations. For a fairly short erotica book, this definitely deals with some heavy topics in a seemingly effortless way and I really appreciate it.

There's also a moment when one of the characters lampshades the fact that suddenly every main is getting paired up and I'm not going to lie, I laughed out loud in my English class at that.

I loved this book (not sure if I liked it more than At Attention but if not it's a close second), and I'm especially excited for the next one because I know one of the main characters is demi.