Roni Loren is my go-to for flawed characters. This is a very spicy polyamorous NA as a very sheltered Christian girl (O'Neal--could've done without the really quirky name) bucks her grandparents' iron grip and heads off to the same college as her hometown crush. (The reason the grandparents are overprotective is her mother was murdered--after possibly being sexually assaulted--while away at the very same college Auden and O'Neal attend now.)

That hometown crush, Auden, has always felt on some level the same towards her--but those feelings are complicated by what he's learned about himself sexually the few years he's been away at Bennett College (such as him and his roommate, Lennox, enjoying "sharing" women, among other things). Auden tries to stay away from her but can't, Lennox is developing his own feelings about her after she comes over one night to hang out and then runs into her more and more on campus, and O'Neal quickly learns their world doesn't feel so strange after all.

There's none of the more extreme kink here that's out there; the book blurb gives enough of a description that if you're fine with that, you should be on board. I don't yuck anyone's yum (at least not most of it), but read other reviews here if you're still not sure.

A towards-the-end reveal about O'Neal's mom I could've done without

Spoiler

looks like she was polyamorous, too, making this somewhat imply it's almost a biological trait

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If you're willing to accept this as a quick n' dirty novel, the character development is fine; if you're looking for something on the level of Roni's other series, you might be a little disappointed.

Listened to the audiobook and narrator Samantha Summers did a great job.