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I love Annabeth Albert and have devoured almost all the books she has written. My favourites include the "#Gaymers" series as well as her "Out of Uniform" series so when I saw the ARC for this book about gamers I hoped to it.

Reading the blurb, I obviously couldn't tell what type of gamers these were but from the first few pages,I realised the game being played by our characters was a type of Trading Card game. Prior to this, I had no prior knowledge of such types of games which made this book quite fascinating to read.

Pacing-wise, the book started off well enough but dragged on through the middle portions and only picked back up around the 70% mark. This essentially meant that the road trip was quite difficult to get through for me regardless of some interesting characters along the way.

Nonetheless, even with the slow pacing, the transformation of the relationship between Conrad and Alden was done perfectly. They moved from people who couldn't stand themselves, to tentative friends, to friends and then to lovers. One thing I particularly liked was that these two men stayed true to themselves and weren't magically cured of any conditions they had. This was my favourite part of the book.

Also, for those wondering, the steam level was quite low and very "fade to black" but it worked quite well with the tone of the book and took nothing away from the story.

From all I've mentioned above, it is quite obvious I enjoyed this book and would recommend this for fans of gamers, road trips and romance done the right way.

**eARC Graciously Provided by the Publisher in Exchange for an Honest, Unbiased Review**