I love being pleasantly impressed by a debut novel, especially one that deals with a theme I don't care for - the whole "gay for you" trope, that some reviewers have tagged this as. I don't think anyone can be made or just turn "gay" for anyone else, and I hate the use of that trope as a label. This isn't a "gay for you" romance. This is a friends to lovers romance, plain and simple - well, as simple as a realistically written romance that deals with adult issues can be. 
 Hart treated the subject extremely well and respectfully - the path of self discovery by Coop. I do feel that perhaps Noah's character could have been explored just a little bit more, but I get why the majority of the book had to focus around Coop's thoughts, experiences and development. 
 There were also times that the book felt a tad repetitive, and I almost gave it four stars for that. Then, I sat back and thought about it. The parts that were repetitive where mainly focused on Coop trying to figure everything out. He was going through a life-changing period of self discovery. Backtracking and mulling things over in your head more than once makes sense for something like this. 
 The flashbacks were a little jarring the first couple times it happened, but once I got used to the style, I liked them. I will be adding Hart to my list of to-read authors.