The first half of this book was a 5-star read. I was living for the angst and the drama. Then later on, it becomes a little too domestic and boring for me. The ending kind of dragged out. Like, at 80%, I thought it should just be an epilogue and call it a day. But there were a lot of chapters, and I was just kind of like. Meh.

I'm just not that interested in reading books about people who are just like, raising their kids and being happy and married. I find that boring. I need tension. I need drama. I don't mind when characters are happy and together in relationships, but I prefer to see that a) in the background. So I like seeing Ivy and Braeden/Rimmel and Romeo happy in the background of Drew and Trent's book, or b) in a fantasy setting or tbh any kind of setting where there's a lot of stuff going on. So the plot is not just, them being happy and married and stuff. Too boring for me.

The stuff with the kids was cute. I did enjoy it. I loooove when people become parents or parent to figures to kids who are older. So like, the fact that they could actually talk to and interact with Travis was really cute, as opposed to just adopting Andi. But I could have dealt with most of it just being an epilogue.

I do love this series, but I did laugh at the end when in the interview, the GS lady said the family doesn't scream money or privilege. I LAUGHED. Because they deeefinitely scream privilege. Like, they all run around being complete dicks to everyone. They bully hospital staff, they physically assault people for "getting in their way," they're INCREDIBLY rude to people CONSTANTLY. It's all because they're very "protective" of their family. But the guys, every single one of them, are DICKS to everyone around them in the name of love. I swear. And then everyone else around them is completely incompetent to make the family look better. Like, the emergency workers couldn't figure out how to get to Drew, so Trent just barrels through, punching everyone out, and climbs into a burning car while the rescue workers twiddled their thumbs or some shit.

But of course, these people never face consequences for their actions bc they're BFFs with the Godfather, Ron Gamble, and Romeo is a famous football player. Like they mention Gamble is just paying everyone off while Trent verbally and physically assaults everyone around him in the name of love, and Romeo flashes his famous football player smile, and they all face no consequences for anything they do. This doesn't bother me THAT much. Like, I didn't dock a star because of it. I just thought it was funny the author tried to convince me these people aren't privileged.

My other gripe is the heteronormativity. The jokes about Drew being the wife or the woman in the relationship where unnecessary and not funny. Plus, I don't understand why they kept saying Drew was gay. I feel like in the first two novels, Drew expresses attraction to woman and even specifically says he's not gay. So it feels a lot like bi erasure by suddenly saying Drew is gay.

Junkie and Rev will always hold a place in my heart. I read them both TWICE in 2020 lol. I can definitely see myself reading them again too. But I can't imagine I'd read this one again. But it was a nice close to the series.