I was looking for a good MM romance and this book was highly recommended. After I finished reading it, I can totally understand why. Although I don't have much experience with MM romance not really by choice but by chance, this is by far the best MM story I have read. 
 There is a number of things I loved: 
 1) The male point of view in romance. I was so glad when I realised the writer of the book was a man. 
 2) Chapter 2 of the book. I was crying loudly and I stopped a few times before I finished the chapter. Basically, the aftermath of 9/11 is described there from the point of view of a firefighter who is looking for his missing best friend. The events, the chaos are devastating and the emotions are too hard to bear. Griff was looking for his best friend Dante, the man he will later realise he is in love with. The events of the book actually are taking place 10 years after 9/11, but we have some flashbacks of the past. 
 3) I loved it when Griff entered a gay club for his first time in his life trying to short out the feelings he had for his friend and to decide whether he is a gay or not and if he is attracted to other men besides Dante. I loved it when he has a look around and he decides that all the men there look normal human beings. Nothing weird is going on around and he actually fits there -although he goes home alone. He may be gay but he was also monogamous and very much in love with his friend. 
 4) I loved the women in the story. They are not weak and they are not absent. Dante's mother, Mrs Anastagio is a strong mother figure who cares and supports. And the spirit of Griff's mother is very strong in the book. When she died years ago, his father was destroyed and he never recovered. 
 5) I love the stories where friends are falling for each other and they realise the importance of their friendship and the life they shared as friends before and as lovers now. 
 Overall it is a great book.