Glory hole oh glory hole wherefore art thou glory hole.

As always if there is a glory hole involved I must investigate...not get my face to close to it though for safety and health reasons. I DO NOT want to poke an eye out.

Check your triggers on this. Taboo for realsies.

This was great. I loved these characters but this was especially about Ellis Carter who is queer and autistic and the people who really see him. I liked how physical his autism was described. How he navigated the world, a world not made for him or most really.

This was sweet and a slow burn but whoa I did not expect them to be so DTF once they established their interest in each other. I loved their communication about triggers, boundaries and limits. Felt real and normal.

Ellis slipping into a depression was written heartbreakingly realistic and vulnerable. Many of us have been this person or have known this person and the struggle to get through this emotion.

I left this book with the feeling that we need more awareness and allowance for the multitude of ways to exist in this world and multiple speeds in which things can happen. Quick and decisive is not the only way and the world needs a shit ton more empathy and patience. We could all be a little more Issaky.

I would 100% read more books by this author.