Growing up with Coronado just a half hour away, Isaiah was used to military guys, but it was only in the past year or so that he’d added being the filling in a SEAL sandwich to his life goals. Mark of course shoots him down and spends the next six years avoiding him until tragedy brings them back together closer than they ever planned to be having tiptoed around each other for the past six years. The story begins with a flashback where Isaiah, fresh out of high school propositions Mark, at Isaiah’s cousin’s and Mark’s sister’s wedding. This is the fifth installment in Albert’s Out of Uniform series and features Isaiah (Ike) who made his first cameos in At Attention (as a potential distracting love interest) and On Point (as a contentious one-night stand) and Mark/”Wizard”, yet another super-hot navy seal with all sorts of hang ups. (I’ve got jokes.) I actually got this from the library (digitally of course) before I started the last two books, but since those were both ARCs with early July publish dates I wanted to make sure I got to them first and this was my reward for finishing them.

It was most enjoyable.You didn’t really think I was going to go more than five books without reading an Annabeth Albert book, did you? Okay noob. Typically I read series that flow together a little more obviously, so the disconnectedness is probably what contributed to me reading the series all out of order when I don’t typically do that. Like, that guy who was a hookup of that protagonist back in book 3 just became the hero of book 7 kind of connected. The series is centered on SEALs stationed at the base on Coronado, but the stories are pretty loosely connected. I read this series completely out of order, and that was absolutely the right choice for me. Overall: I’m not always one for the military romance (though more me than Holly or Ingrid), but this series totally did it for me. Plot: Navy SEALs navigate queer love in a macho-type workplace while dealing with work-related hurdles and personal dramas Some of it is kinky funtimes, too.Ĭharacter Chemistry: The chemistry between the protagonists largely worked for me (I mean, I binged this series HARD, so something was working)

Except for the book with the demisexual protagonist, which is a slower burn, these guys have a lot of sex.

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