2025 review: This was just as lovely on the re-read, I think I had the same emotional journey and devoured the book. The early abuse is pretty easily dealt with by Morgan, and there is some lack of explanation on page as to what had been happening before he got there. I really enjoyed the found family aspects throughout the whole book and the development of the team. Morgan's outlook and emotional intelligence was really the defining feature as this is instrumental in how he behaves and reacts throughout the course of the book. One of the strongest elements was exactly how much love and adoration is in this book, of Morgan wanting to be his best self for Shea and for wanting to arrange life to give Shea the world-- I felt like his perspective was a beautiful romantic perspective I don't see all the time. Overall this is such a swoony book and I didn't mind that most of the sexual content was confined to a chapter or two. I would say that the ending/ last 25% structurally is an interesting choice for pacing purposes, but it was important to have the major event and then the aftermath and a true start on the healing journey. It was important for there to be that amount of love and acceptance at the very end of the book. Reading other reviews, it seemed like a lot of people complained that this was insta-love, and while I do agree that the romance developed very fast, I felt that they had time together to work and cooperate and be co-captains. Both were immediately interested and attracted to the other person but the love did have some time to grow. I also see many complaints about how the book was repetitive, slow, boring, dragged and people felt this way especially about the middle chunk of the book, that the start and end were totally different and were the stronger Parts. 2023 review: - I thought it had a slow start/ felt like the abuse and set up was heavy-handed: why had this been allowed or never revealed? Morgan was easily able to swoop in and change everything? - I liked how much team togetherness was the book, a strong found family element - Morgan fell hard and maybe too fast for Shea, but I loved how head over heels and committed Morgan was! He was just totally adoring and elated to get the chance to love Shea-- so swoony! And thought that there was good emotional progression - I could see that something bad was coming and had my suspicions of what character would be involved, but I'm glad that there was not a third act break up and the conflict was external. When the drama happened, I found it heart-stopping and was right there and present with Morgan's fear. - I did kind of want dual point of view, but I also felt that this really worked for me - I do agree with some reviewers who used the terms: over the top, sappy, purple prose, warm, connection, soulmates, awareness, supportive, emotional. I also agree that to some extent I felt that the marriage happened too quickly, especially with Morgan's initial reluctance for any relationship - low plot/action; this book is all about the team and their connection and building trust and love. I love this book and did not want to read any negative reviews

I have no words for how much I loved this.

It was absolutely everything i was promised and more.

I'm pretty sure I will never recover from this book