God, I was so excited about this one, I got worried it wasn’t going to live up to my expectations, but it absolutely did! It was so wonderful to dive in further with these characters we already knew on a surface level, but really finding out what makes them tick. Poppy’s stupid family made me want to rage so hard, Novy’s covering for his internal trauma was next level, and Colton had a whole medical history we had no idea about previously, and all these factors contributed to the plot and their relationship beautifully.

My only true quibble with the story was how it fit into the previous two books. It felt like we had these glimpses of their relationship, and those moments ended up being less significant than we were led to believe— particularly Poppy coming clean to Rachel and Tess almost seemed completely out of place with where their relationship was at that point. A lot of the parts I was waiting for seemed like they came later in the narrative than they should have.

Overall, this was gorgeous, fun, dirty as hell in the best ways, and EMOTIONAL. I didn’t cry, but goddamn it was close. I knew we were coming to an HEA, but I did genuinely worry for a hot second! Absolutely lovely and I can’t wait for more of this team.