Cousins is an awesome writer and anything she writes is worth reading because she takes so much care with every detail -- the setting, the characters, the dialogue... even the work Cash and Steph do is all carefully thought through and described. And these are amazingly great characters! Especially Cash, as everyone has said already, but Steph is terrific too-- feisty and smart and deeply loyal. I love how they fall backwards into a relationship because they're both just sort of....insecure, I guess. Yet Cousins makes that work and they're all the more loveable for their flaws and stupid moments. The only hesitation I have with the whole series (I've read most of it now) is that the 3rd person POV for only one character is limiting-- especially after NA readers are used to dual first person POVs where we get to hear from both characters. When people say that Steph seems less developed I think they're responding to that-- that we'd like to get in her head too and the narrative doesn't let us. Similarly, I felt that about Reese in the first book. Reese and Steph are both vivid characters in their own right but there's a distance in only seeing them from the outside.... Nonetheless, this is one of the best romances I've read in a long time!