5 ⭐️

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5

Format: ebook

“You’re more than the life of the party, you’re more than the golden boy, you’re more than anyone thinks you are. You’re never too intense for me, never too much, and I love all that makes you so unique from anyone else. I love you because of everything you are, weird fascination with flamingos aside.”

There is just something so comforting about Addison Beck’s writing. I don’t know what it is, but I just always feel so connected to the characters and their feelings and motivations.

Knox was hard to like in the beginning. He made a lot of bad choices, and was just awful to everyone, but damn, if he didn’t worm his way into my heart. Elton, I loved from the very first page. Is he over-the-top and ridiculous and too much most of the time? Yes. But I’ll throw hands for him.

Grumpy/sunshine but make it the grumpiest grump and the brightest sunshine. These two characters could not have been any more different. And that’s why their dynamic just worked so, so well. And the way they dropped all their walls around each other and became one another’s safe space to be themselves.

I hate, hate, hate relationship angst, but the whole background story with Knox being in love with Elton’s brother, Everest, was actually so interesting and I really enjoyed the way it panned out. This book isn’t exactly slowburn, the sexual relationship starts pretty much immediately, but the progression of feelings is a lot slower and super authentic. I just loved seeing the feelings shift incrementally throughout the story.

Also, I’m so silly but I actually haven’t read Dirty Martini yet. I obviously have to go back and read it now, but I’m a little scared I’ll hold a grudge against Rhys (and kinda Everest too) due to how they acted in this book. But I need their love story so I’m prepared to be open-minded.

I can totally see this book (possibly this series) being up there with Hateful Love with my comfort reads. The vibes were just amazing. 

Now give me Skylar and Cassius!

*I received a free advanced copy of this book from the author and this is my voluntary, honest review.