I wanted to read this book because I have enjoyed the Priest series and I've seen this series a few times on Bookstagram and Booktok and decided to give it a go and holy mother, I ended up more invested in the storyline rather than the smut.  

This book is based on Greer Galloway and she was warned as a girl to keep her kisses to herself and she has disobeyed twice – one on her sixteenth birthday as she was kneeling in a pool of brother glass, and another time after a charming stranger named Embry Moore whisks her into the dazzling Chicago night. Both times she falls in love, and both times her heart is broken beyond repair. So as an adult, she vows never to kiss or to love again. That is until the Vice President of the United States shows up at the university where she teaches and asks for one thing: for her to meet with hero-turned-President Maxen Colchester. Maxen, the soldier who was her first kiss in that pool of broken glass. And the other complication? The Vice President is none other than charming Embry Moore himself. Soon, Greer finds himself caught between past and present, pleasure and pain and two men who long for each other as much as they long for her. And as war and betrayal press ever closer, they tumble headlong into a passionate love affair that will change the world. 

I liked that it wasn’t all smut and no story, you got to fully understand and enjoy these characters and the trauma and all the fucked up things they did (Maxen, I’m looking at you). I think Greer was an interesting character especially how she was raised to basically go straight into politics and to pay attention to anything around her. I loved the politics aspect of this which I didn’t think I would, I was getting to the point where I was like, what are they going to do about this vote and what about this. The smut was intense and honest to God, if I ever did go to the Oval Office, I don’t think I could keep a straight face after what I read during this book. I liked the forbidden aspect, like everyone was rooting for Ash to settle down and hoping Greer was it, not knowing that Ash and Greer and knew each other longer and that he was also screwing his VP. This was my first book where it was MMF and I feel like it was the right book to dip my toe in and I don’t think it will be the last one I read.  

I would have loved for this to be dual or even multiple POV especially during some of the smuttier chapters, like that one in the oval office. I would have loved to be in Embry’s head a bit more. I know this book was mainly based on Ash and Greer, but I feel like we could have got to know more about Embry rather than how good he is in bed and that he knows how to handle threesomes. 

The ending was cruel, and Greer’s cousin is definitely involved. It’s going to be interesting to see how this carries on with Embry’s POV. But this is one of those books that you tell your friends about but if your co-workers ask what you read over the weekend, you are like “urmm, a politics romance book.”