I loved the first half of this book, and I really liked stepbrothers Nic and Cade's hate to fuck buddies to lovers arc. 

Their chemistry was volatile and intriguing and hot, and both were more insecure about feelings and self-worth than they'd ever suspect the other of being. It was a great parallel for two otherwise very different characters.

I loved Cade and his little hissy fits over finding his stepbrother hot and over possibly even liking him! Oh the horror lol

However, the pacing in the second half of the book was off to me, and felt a bit weird.

I also would've loved even more time with Nic whose background was super interesting and I wanted to dive deeper into it and him. I thought him having vitiligo was cool though, it's not something I think I've read an MC have before.

Overall, I really enjoyed a lot of this book but I felt somewhat unsatisfied after finishing it because I still wanted something *more* from it.