I very much enjoyed this book! The pacing worked incredibly well; I was driven along by the plot and my interest in the characters, didn't want to put it down. It was lovely to sink into a story that didn't contain sharp edges for me, and was thoroughly riveting. 
 Class conflict is at the core of this romance, and conflict around the rule of law and morality, and I wasn't sure how it could be resolved. I was pretty satisfied with how it worked out. It was very clearly feminist in it's framework, and I really appreciated that in an m/m romance, because it's quite rare. 
 I liked the main characters a lot, was rooting for them as people, and for them as a couple. I wanted them to figure it out. I thought the mysteries were interesting, and added to the story, and especially to the characterization and movement of the romance arc. I really loved the secondary characters, particularly the women. And Oliver just stole my heart. 
 The disability representation worked for me; it felt real and like it held complexity. Oliver is both physically disabled from a combat injury and has combat PTSD, and I appreciated both aspects of the representation. Jack also pretty clearly has a trauma history himself, but it's not clear whether he has symptoms of PTSD. 
 Oliver's PTSD was understated, but present, not especially debilitating, but definitely part of his life. I especially appreciated the moment where he references combat and says he doesn't want to talk about it, and Jack responds in a way that both respects that, is pissed off on his account that people would ask, and also communicates that he would be open to holding the story if Oliver did want to share it. It was these kinds of moments of access intimacy that made me swoon for Jack. 
 Another similarly swoony moment for me was Jack being all about supporting Oliver in having access late in the story. More would be a spoiler, but it made me all verklempt. As someone with a similar injury to Olivers, I appreciated the way it was depicted in the story, how it was ever present in the ways that mobility disabilities can be and chronic pain can be. It felt real to me the way that he was matter of fact about it, the way he overdid it sometimes, the way he was touchy about people seeing him as vulnerable, the way everyone constantly had comments for him and wanted him to talk about it. It felt real that he was invested in passing sometimes for pride and sometimes out of stubbornness, and sometimes because it was expected of him. I liked that the story showed that, and also showed that it was passing and never presented it as something that was to be pitied or seen as a flaw. I liked the way it was part of their sex life, a factor in positions, without taking over. I very much appreciated that this was a story with no pity and no cure. 
 I really enjoyed the sex scenes; they were hot and intimate and felt very much like they illuminated the characters. I really liked the sexual banter between them, both verbal and non-verbal. 
 Trigger Warnings: (view spoiler)[ 
 Murder. Someone gets shot and wounded in the course of the story. Multiple references to sexual harassment, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence, to rape culture, and to the lack of protection for women from these things, legal or otherwise. References to being traumatized by doing sex work as a child, in the context of child sexual abuse. References to alcoholism. 
 Consensual sex and kink: oral sex, anal sex, rimming, handjobs, light power play (hide spoiler)]