I’m losing myself more and more each day, and the only time I get that sense of self again is when I’m here on the ice.
I refuse to let anyone take that away from me.
This book was such an emotional roller coaster! I never expected I’d cry several times while reading it. I think it’s because I was already so emotionally invested in the Dalton family that this book hit me as hard as it did. If you read A Stealthy Situation then you already know what Bennett and Emmett had been up to all these years and the trouble they’ve gotten themselves into as a result. This book deals with all the fallout of that and it tugged at every single one of my heartstrings.
Someone wanting to get to know me? As me? I haven’t had that since I left San Diego State. Six months isn’t a long time, but it has felt like an eternity.
With Emmy’s POV, we get to see just how lost and lonely he’s become and my heart just broke for him. He loved his brother so much and was prepared to practically erase himself to protect him. But all he wanted was someone to see him for himself. Enter Jonah Brooks. Someone he shouldn’t get mixed up with but someone who may just be the perfect person for him. They were so sweet together but again, because of the secrets and their situations, they didn’t have an easy road and my heart hurt so much for them. I wanted them to find their HEA so badly.
Jonah Brooks has the potential to ruin me. Not only me but also my brother. This professor might be my downfall, but instead of running away, all I want to do is chase after him.
As much as I loved Jonah and Emmy’s love story, where this book shone was how perfectly it wrapped up the story of the Dalton family. Any loose ends that were left in Benny’s book were wrapped up and there were fantastic cameos from West and Asher (I think I love Asher even more now if that’s possible). We’ve seen this family deal with the loss of their parents for several books now but never was the loss felt more acutely (for me) than it was in this book. Seeing how far-reaching and long-lasting the effects of the loss were brought me to tears more than once. But the way it all wrapped up was heartwarming and I loved seeing all my favorite Dalton siblings thriving and happy. This was the perfect book to wrap up the FU2 series as well as the perfect ending for the Daltons!
“Needing to act like Ben around other people. It was tiring, and you … you breathed life back into me.”
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