Blank Canvas

Very good - loved Niko and Sam. I wish we got more
Of their romance.

There felt like a lot of side plots with the friend group (who I love!) but it took away from Niko and Sam as a couple.

Good disability rep, and the emotions that come with it plus adoption hearings, court etc. obviously no two people are the same but it felt authentic

Similar to the previous book, lot of heavy issues and trauma. This one revolves around Sam, who is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair for mobility, and Niko, who played in the NHL for just minutes before an injury ended his career. But the big issue in this book is that Sam is trying to gain custody of the daughter he's cared for over the previous three years, when The System is trying to prevent a disabled man from doing so. As such, a lot of discrimination here (against disabled people, as well as gay people). It's also very open-door, and focuses a lot on sex when one partner is disabled, and all that comes with Sam's specific paralysis.

I still enjoyed reading this, but there was next to nothing about the tattoo parlor, which is one of the things I liked about the previous book. Probably done with this series for now, it's much more serious than I prefer my romance.

TW: custody issues, child abandonment (past), discrimination against disabled folks, homophobia