Received this ARC on netgalley for review.

I haven't read the other books of the trilogy, but that doesn't matter. I imagine the other characters in this book might have been familiar to me already, if I had read the first two books, but the relationship between Linus and Rob doesn't depend on seeing them in any other books, if they appeared there.

It's not a madly tense book -- I had the feeling from the start that everything would turn out alright, so it was just a pleasure to watch Rob and Linus develop, and watch Rob's understanding of Linus grow. I like reading about relationships like theirs, formed in childhood and remaining strong into adulthood, so they made me smile a lot. The sex scenes are well-written, conveying the intimacy between the two, with their feelings being clear throughout -- I hate sex scenes that just fling the characters to the winds and focus on dripping bodily fluids and so on.

All in all, I think I'll look out for the other books of this trilogy, and more by Ava March.