To be honest, I didn't hate this book. It was fun to read, but I wouldn't necessarily say it's good. Him is an lgbtq+ romance that sits a little on the spicier scale. The book follows Jamie Canning and Ryan Wesley's journey together. Jamie and Ryan (Wes) have been best friends since they were fourteen when they started going to this ice hockey camp together. However, during their last year, the two had an unexpected fallout due to a few drunken mistakes. Now, the two of them have almost finished their last year of college, along with being on college hockey before they go off to the big leagues. After years of no communication, the two finally come face to face at one of their hockey competitions. This sparks something in Wes as he remembers the summers they've had together and decidedly signs up to coach hockey at the same camp he went to when he was younger, obviously not knowing that Jamie had the same idea. During the new summer they have together, the two rekindle their friendship and maybe even something more: diving into old and new waters. 

So, like I said, this book wasn't entirely bad to read, but it wasn't necessarily good. I think one of the major things it was lacking was the sense of being too rushed and compact. The book would have been better if it extended itself a little more, especially with the characters coming to terms with the ideas of homosexuality and bisexuality. The plot and story would have been so much more impactful if it slow burned into the romance while also having more focus on the ideas of sexuality and how others react to it. The book really just felt generic, like I've read it a hundred times before with romance. I won't lie many of the romances that I've read have stupid and vague plots, but I think this could have been more constructed if it focused less on the romance and more on the personal growth. However, because I did enjoy it to an extent, I give it a 3/5 ⭐️.