4.5 stars 
 Jess is reinventing herself and starting a new career. Feeling like the black sheep failure of the Canning family, she worries about what those she loves will say about her newest decision. 
 This book was just so much fun. Blake and Jess are both over the top in intensity and hilarity. Together their easy going, fun natures mean lots of laughs. Neither are fully comfortable with where their lives are, for different reasons, and those reason play out just as differently as their histories. Though Jess jumps from one path to another, she wants to find that thing that grounds her...she just hasn't found it yet. Blake on the other hand likes to keep things light and easy to avoid attachments and entanglements. But each might just be what the other needs. 
 Blake doesn't have all fun in his past and has spent the last five years not letting women close as a result. Blake was always the fun character in the background of Jamie and Wes's books. As their upstairs neighbor and with his enthusiasm for their friendship, he is always in and out of their apartment. Getting to know more about Blake behind his exuberant personality meant getting past the public image he has worked so hard to erect. 
 I loved the progression of the relationship between Jess and Blake. We knew these two were hot together -- they proved that when they first met. But as they get behind walls that others aren't allowed to see, they each become vulnerable to other, even without knowing it. 
 This had me laughing with Blake's antics. Nothing is serious when he is involved, but at the same time, he also knows when things are serious and has a deep sense of loyalty to his family. Since Wes and Jamie are his family, he is quick to bring Jess into his circle, even as he wants to bring him into his life in a different role. 
 As the first book in the WAGS series, this has the extra standard of introducing some of the other single guys, in addition to showing readers all the sweet moments that those already in relationships (Wes and Jamie) are experiencing. For a first novel, it does a great job balancing the primary couple with the side characters in a way that doesn't detract from Jess and Blake's story while building the foundation for a whole new set of characters. 
 I was gifted a copy in exchange for an honest review.