If you want a story about fixing family dynamics that tugs constantly on the heartstrings & taxes the tear ducts, look no further. It’s nice to run across a story where grown adults act like grown adults, own up to their failings and try to make do from wherever they are.
Steam med-low. The romance was slow burn but hinged on Israel catching up to Sam. POV only from Israel. Again, adults being adults, Sam never pushes Israel and they stay just friends for most of the book. The sexytimes come in, closer to the end. M/M on page, nothing extreme. I like that they are playful together.
Narration: Overall decent, but has a weird fading effect. I don’t know if it was from recording quality issues or the narrator’s phrasing, but sometimes the vocals faded in a way that mimicked Audible’s “Sleep Timer” function so much that I would be pulled out of the story to wonder if I had set the timer, remind myself that I hadn’t, and then hear the volume go back to normal. It’s subtle enough it might not bother anyone without hearing struggles or someone unfamiliar with the fade out timer, but it tweaked me every time.