My favorite guilty pleasure series! And this one didn't let me down. This was such a good book to read while on vacation this week. Very fast and fun. The romance definitely wasn't my favorite out of the five but it was still very strong.

This was a sort of conclusion to an arc in this series that I won't get into much to avoid spoilers but I did enjoy seeing this part wrapped up and seeing the introduction of a new group. I think these books do such a great job balancing plot and romance. This one isn't as crazy fast moving as some other romance series I've read that have a lot of plot but I was equally engaged with the plot and with the romance, which I always appreciate in these types of books.

This book focuses on Tex and Jazz. Jazz was first mentioned in the last book and we hadn't seen him at all until this book, which made me a little nervous. However, the introduction of Jazz was well done and I liked that even though Jazz and Tex were childhood friends, Bates and Lyda still make sure to actually build a romantic connection instead of relying entirely on the history they already have that occurred off the page.

After reading both the Heath chapter at the end of this book and the description of book 6, I am really looking forward to it. Thank goodness these authors really pump out these books and the next one comes out in a month. It seems like the relationship dynamic will be slightly different in the next book and I'm excited to see what the authors will do!

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I really liked Jazz. He had some hard tmes, but he made it through them. He paid his time, and then he came back to the MC and did everything he could in order to pay for it. Including trying to avoid his feelings for his best friend, Tex.

I mostly liked Tex. My biggest problem with him is that he didn't seem to see that J had grown, and he kept kind of running J down, even though he didn't really mean to. ( )