5 ⭐️

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️/5

Format: audiobook

Narration: 🎤🎤🎤🎤/5

This book was such a breath of fresh air and I absolutely devoured it.

I think I was getting to the point in the Sadenverse where books were really starting to blend together and all feel the same to me, especially all the hockey ones, and this book just came in and stole my heart because I’ve never read anything like it before.

I’m a big fan of MMM but this one was done especially well. I think the natural progression of Brady, Kit and Prescott’s relationship just felt organic and was not at all rushed. I’ve been super curious about them since Football Royalty and did a little happy dance when their story finally became available to borrow at my library.

I also found it easy to love all the characters individually. Brady has been a fave of mine since I read The Dating Disaster (even though he’s named after my least favorite person in the entire world, but I digress). And I loved seeing more of Felix, and also Peyton and Levi. Still on the fence on how I feel about Talon and Miller as dads because, boy, are they annoying. I also really loved Kit and Prescott. I don’t even like military romance all that much but they were both such big sweethearts and the love they had for each other and Brady was so adorable.

I loved the poly elements of this book. There was a lot of open communication about boundaries even from the very beginning. Even though Kit and Prescott kind of used Brady as an excuse to be intimate together the first time, you can see that it never happens again and that the care and respect they have for each other extends to him. There never seemed to be unbalance in the relationship where someone was getting left out (even when they all couldn’t physically be together) and that’s really rare to get with a MMM book, so I appreciated that. And I really just adored their dynamic. Brady, who is a physically imposing man, wanting to be dominated and taken care of in his personal/sex life because he’s always had to be the one in control and taking care of others his whole life. And Kit and Prescott just loving taking care of him.

I also loved how Prescott’s and Brady’s families took the news of their relationship and were immediately supportive. And the hurt/comfort aspects of this book were amazing. Honestly there isn’t a single thing I didn’t love. This book could’ve been a few hundred pages longer and I would’ve eaten it all up. I love these three and I hope we keep getting updates on how they’re doing in other books.