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Review originally posted on my blog with added content on Mikku-chan / A world full of words

Bacon identifies his sexuality as pan. Since this is a relatively new term I wish that it had been explained so I didn't have to look it up. One of his buddies could have easily asked "what's that". After learning it helped me understand his first love better.
Spencer and Bacon really get to know each other well when bacon played protection detail while Spencer is embedded with his Seal team. I enjoyed the easy back and forth they had.

4 stars.

Tight Quarters is the sixth book in the Out of Uniform series and they all feature a different couple but can be read as a standalone.

I've read and enjoyed all of them and I don't know how Annabeth does it but she keeps the books interesting for me to keep coming back.

This is yet another success from the author. I like how she clearly knows what she's talking about, but at no point do I feel like she's showing off her homework. The characters are playful and realistic, and suuuper sexy! Good times! I can't wait for the next installment.

I think that this new addition to this series is my favorite of the series thus far! Bacon (AKA Del to Spencer) and Spencer were not the cliché older man/younger man type characters. Both having issues with their pasts that needed overcoming were both great, strong characters that were enjoyable to read. Both of their issues were realistic and relatable to the reader as well. I enjoyed their interactions as they grew into becoming a couple whether they wanted it initially or not. This stand alone read in this series moved along well, not dragging at all and kept me interested from the beginning of the book. I would recommend this book to others.
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC copy of this book.

It isn’t very often that I venture into M/M romance and Annabeth Albert is an author who’s new to me. That the ‘Out of Uniform’ series has crossed my feed numerous times which I haven’t yet taken up is just added incentive to get into a military romance of this particular sub-genre. Coming straight into ‘Tight Quarters’ without having previously read the rest of the books in the series was no biggie; I had no problems catching up even with the small references to what happened before without the focus on Bacon and Spencer faltering at all.
 
A hot-shot journalist embedding with this particular SEAL team (which is, according to Bacon—I just had to have a laugh at his name because his real one isn’t much better) isn’t a scenario I’d ever envisioned, but this was something I was happy to take with a pinch of salt, or better put yet, a willingness to suspend disbelief for what I thought was going to be by and large, some kind of romantic suspense written into the story.
 
But it wasn’t quite one and because I dove in without expectations, everything felt fresh and new, from the not-quite action in the first half and the rather unusual conflict in the second that simply made it impossible to take sides.
 
The forced babysitting of Spencer Bryant, a plan that went inevitably wrong during a mission and the action that happened thereafter and the added element of the kind of craving attraction that Albert writes so well just made me a happy camper. The details of the mission itself felt as though they were deliberately left fuzzy, so it was akin to being part of the action but not being in the heart of it, which left the focus on the development of the relationship—both when Spencer and Bacon were together as well as apart.
 
Past the mission however, ‘Tight Quarters’ felt like a different book in the move from military to the party crowd that Spencer/Bacon got involved in on his leave. The different aspects of their characters coming out to play threw me for a bit when I’d been ready to pigeon-hole both of them as ‘journalist’ and ‘soldier’, in fact. But the thoroughness of Albert’s exploration of the tension between Bacon and Spencer—one that resulted in a slight lull in the first third of the book—was rewarding as a result, especially in the light of the slow, slow burn that was set up as hostile from the start.
 
By the time Bacon and Spencer talked their way through to their sappy end, I was impressed by Albert’s style—the emotional rawness that emerged later between this pairing—and her handling of gender fluidity. And then I wondered why I didn’t jump on her other books earlier on.

Tight Quarters is up to Annabeth Albert's high standards, with characters to love and a plot that is delightful to read. It is also another book that enlightens the reader about the diversity in sexuality among men. Ms. Albert's characters are not just straight or gay. They range the gamut of the rainbow, as we saw in her previous books. This time we meet a man who identifies as pansexual. This is also a May December relationship.
Just as you think the two heroes of the story can't work themselves out of the corner they've gotten into, an unusual solution presents itself. I really loved this book. As Carina Press promises, there's always an HEA at the end of their stories.

A May-December romance is handled sensitively in Albert's latest military romance. Del Bacon, a pansexual SEAL, is tasked with babysitting an embedded reporter during a mission. Spencer Bryant is openly gay and known for his professionalism and ethics. While the two are attracted to each other, their relationship doesn't ignite until after Spencer's time with the SEALs ends.

What I liked about 'Tight Quarters' was the immense self-respect held by both Del and Spencer. The two communicate well, and their major source of conflict has to do with their respective career goals; I found the way that Albert handled the ultimate compromise was realistic, and addressed any chance for resentment later on. It made for an affectionate, mature partnership.

Series fans will appreciate glimpses into the lives of other couples, and readers will also appreciate the maturity that Del displays when a fellow SEAL known for homophobic comments is injured; regardless of their personal politics, the men trust each other and are willing to support each other. There's no villain here, though action abounds.