Wyatt has a summer internship with an engineering firm in Pittsburgh, so Ethan has followed with a summer job of his own. He has no idea what he wants to do, but Ethan definitely doesn’t want to be separated from Wyatt. Of course, with the guys both working two jobs, they aren’t getting to see much of one another anyway. Add in the hot, messy apartment and two annoying roommates and the summer isn’t quite going to plan.

It takes a while for things to settle for Ethan and Wyatt, but eventually they begin to hit their stride. Wyatt is trying to learn to trust in their relationship and that he deserves happiness with Ethan. And Ethan is learning to go with the flow a little more and not try to master plan everything. As the summer progresses, the guys find themselves connecting again like they had been at school.

However, when Wyatt’s uncle needs his help, Wyatt is determined to be there for the only person who treats him like real family. But his obligations to his uncle could affect Wyatt’s future with Ethan.

Relationship Status is the third book in the Ethan & Wyatt trilogy and it brings the story to a really satisfying close. I’ll admit, I was a bit nervous at the beginning. Things were kind of rocky between the guys in the second book, Boyfriend Material, and that carries over here as we start things off with the Ethan and Wyatt having a rough time of it. It was hard to see that things were once again unsettled with the guys, even though this story takes place months later. We also sort of jump in here with Ethan and Wyatt already living in Pittsburgh, so we get no real information on what has been happening since around Christmas.

That said, things turn around for the guys here in a really rewarding way. We see them not only get happier with their living situation, but also their relationship gets more solid and the connection between them even stronger. On one hand, the guys’ insecurities are not totally gone; Wyatt still is sure he doesn’t deserve happiness and it will therefore be fleeting, and Ethan worries Wyatt will just retreat if things get rough. But at the same time, we can see some nice growth in both of them, as well as a real bond between them. This comes out even further as the guys weather a crisis together and we can see how they are really connected and relying on one another.

Even with their relationship issues, sex has never been a problem for these guys and they continue to be steamy (and enjoy a newfound appreciation for semi-public sex). I loved the way things all come together and the story is a really rewarding end to the trilogy. If you have been following along with the series, you will definitely want to read this final book. And if you enjoy some nice new adult romance with some interesting heroes, I can certainly recommend this series.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. While I have not read the other books in this series, I found the characters and their cliche lives to be overly annoying and unrealistic.

Okay, this was kinda adorable. The final book in Ethan and Wyatt's story, it wraps up loose ends, shows the two growing up and becoming (mostly) adults, and figuring out themselves and their relationship. That said, I spent a lot of time throughout this just thinking you know, maybe you should take a break in your relationship, you are obviously not ready for this. You do get to see then finally get it together and work for their happy ending, which was satisfying (sex puns fully intended).

I was waiting for something strong, well written but it was dissapointed in some ways, The main characters are annoying living a utopia, the story seems has not be a solid base and falls in the cliché... Not recommended :(

I’m a huge fan of K.A. Mitchell and have loved the Ethan and Wyatt series since book one. These guys are a truly wonderful young couple. Talk about relationship goals.

The story is fairly low in angst, but it works well for Ethan and Wyatt. Yeah, they act a little immature at times, but that’s their personalities. Anything majorly deep wouldn’t have fit well with the rest of the series. A big kudos to Mitchell for keeping these guys consistent despite such gaps between books.

The sex here, as usual, is smoking hot. Yeah, they do it a lot, but what else would you expect from college boys?

Overall a cute, quick little read the brings you back into the world of Ethan and Wyatt. I enjoyed these two boys continued story of love :)

This is the third and final book in the Ethan and Wyatt series. What I love about this series is that each book follows the same couple; normally with m/m authors, the books in a series are just companion novels. Each book has a different couple. Relationship Status has developed couple Ethan and Wyatt living together for the first time while they both do summer internships.

Wyatt got his first, and not wanting to be left behind, Ethan found something too. Again, since we’ve been following the same couple, this book isn’t about them falling in love. They’re already there and this is the continuation of their story, which I love. It shows the highs and lows of being with someone, learning to deal with their problems and successes.

Relationship Status isn’t terribly long – more like a novella than anything – so I finished it one evening. I thought the physical affection was balanced well with the narrative, so it’s not just a book full of sex. There is a story line, with ups and downs, and that’s always appreciated! While not my favorite series ever, I do think these are good books and I’d recommend them to anyone interested!

I have a soft spot for this series and these boys.

Circumstances allowed for Ethan and Wyatt to meet.
Chemistry allowed them to be hot and fast in and out of bed.
Communication allowed them to truly be a couple.

"The thing was, Ethan didn’t tend to do things halfway. It was something I loved about him. I loved that intensity when he kissed me, when we fucked, when he looked at me like I was the most important person in the world. But it also scared the fucking shit out of me. "

From the first book, Getting Him Back¸ I adored Ethan and Wyatt. Getting Ethan’s POV in book one let us meet the boy who followed his high school boyfriend to college only to get dumped on the first day. It let us be in his head when he meets Wyatt, gets tutored by Wyatt and begins to fall in love with the boy who loves hoodies and his bangs over his eyes. We got so much of the boys so fast, I was worried how they would deal with this new relationship.

Book two, Boyfriend Materiel, gave us Wyatt’s POV and new issues being brought up with the boys. They are so in love with each other at this point but still so young and so new to the relationship that they don’t know how to communicate beyond sex. They want so much but just don’t know how to say it. Ethan wants Wyatt in his life so bad he messed up with taking him home but these boys are so meant to be, I had faith they would work it out.

And now in Relationship Status, we have Ethan and Wyatt living in a crappy room over the summer so they can be together. I am so happy the boys are learning how to communicate in this book. Sure, sex is still their number one go to when they want to show the other how they are feeling but they have matured in the months they’ve been together and it evident. Ethan is interning at the ACLU and wondering what career path he to take and Wyatt is working with his uncle Owen. They boys deal with shitty roommates, handsy co-workers and one hell of an off the charts hot scene at the first gay club either one attends. But life, it’s still there and the boys need to figure out who they fit together and how to make this work.

"Wyatt smiled at me. I wanted a lot more than just to fuck him. I wanted that smile every day, and I knew we could have it if he’d stop thinking we were too young, or he was too fucked up, or the world was just too hard."

Told from alternating POV’s this time around, we get the boys are they are struggling with not repeating mistakes and how to move forward with maturity and honesty. Their level of devotion is slightly tested when a wrench is thrown into their plans because of a family issue but I adored the way they handled it and how they hashed it out. Ethan finally gets that Wyatt isn’t walking away when things get rough and Wyatt finally realizes that his life can be good and that good things can happen to him.

I am not going to lie that that epilogue made me tear up. It was perfect; the setting, the time frame and how they boys came together to present it. They deserve the HEA they worked so damn hard for and I will now imagine how all of it goes down and wish then many happy endings.

I have mixed feelings about this installment.

Sadly, I didn't feel the story.

The author is pretty damn good when it comes to intimate scenes. Delicious. I also enjoyed her writing style. Both characters, however, kept saying and doing stuff I found irritating - they came across as very immature :(

I found Ethan especially whiny and ungrateful somehow. I don't know. I kept bouncing between "Yes!" And "Oh, but why?"...

While I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in the series, the following two were less fun, and more frustrating.

I think it would have been more enjoyable to experience as a full length novel instead of three novellas...

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Many, many thanks to the publisher who kindly provided a free copy for an honest and impartial review.

Honestly, it's not that there's anything majorly wrong with this novella, and I liked their first 2 books (3-3 1/2 stars there) but I'm just not feeling this one for whatever reason. When I found myself just skimming from page to page, even in a short novella, it's time to move on to something else.


DNF @ 20%

A nice wrap up for the series.

Relationship Status is the 3rd and final (as far as I know) book in the Ethan and Wyatt series. Book 2 kind of left me with a cliffhanger feeling so I was happy that Relationship Status was released as promised about 8 months later.

This book is told in alternating POVs between Ethan and Wyatt. The guys have moved in together and both have internships at different companies. They're renting a room and the accommodations aren't great but at least they are together.

The story contains the normal angst-y bits that I expect in a New Adult story but nothing over the top. Like the previous two stories the sex is explicit, HOT and plentiful. Wyatt's family plays a large role in this story and I enjoyed reading how the two guys handle a less than desirable situation.

I am a huge fan of epilogues and K.A. Mitchell delivers a very satisfying one that left me feeling great about Ethan and Wyatt.


ARC provided by NetGalley but this did not influence my opinion or rating of the book.

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4.5 Stars!!!

Ethan is not ready to spend the summer apart from Wyatt, so he manages to score an internship in Pittsburgh so they can be together. Things aren't as easy as he thought they might be because even when living together in the same apartment, their conflicting schedules keep them apart more than either of them would've liked. And when disaster strikes, their relationship will be put to the test.

I love Ethan and Wyatt so much! It hasn't been an easy journey, but even with as difficult as it's been, they're pretty solid. With as well as they fit, it's easy to forget that they've just been together 10 months in this story and that they are still so young. As always, Ethan is going full-steam ahead, while Wyatt trails a good few paces behind, more cautious and unsure of what the future may bring. I loved seeing Wyatt a little more confident there at the end, him being the one reassuring Ethan this time around. I loved Wyatt's uncle and Christine and Ethan's dad and it was nice to see Ethan's mom making more of an effort in this book.

As always, Ms. Mitchell did a fantastic job bringing Ethan and Wyatt to life and capturing that chemistry that has enthralled me from the first book. It was a nice blend of sweet, romantic, hot, kind of kinky and angsty rolled up in a delightful read and the perfect conclusion to the series, which I'm sad to see ending.

Highly recommendable!

*** Copy provided to the reviewer via NetGalley for my reading pleasure, a review wasn’t a requirement.***

I do not know if it was because this is not the first book in the series, but I could not get into this book. I was not interested much in the characters, and every time I would start to be, there was another sex scene that interrupted all of the character building. I was really hoping to read a fun, light hearted LBGTQIA novel, but what I got was more similar to 50 Shades of Grey. I was really hoping to love this book, and unfortunately I did not.

This obviously had the potential to be super-angsty, especially when we were in Wyatt's head, but it wasn't. It was mostly delightful to revisit Ethan and Wyatt and watch them find their way to a happily ever after. Also, the epilogue was like icing on the happy cake.

This is the third book in this trilogy, and it shouldn't be read as a standalone. It's actually best, now that book 3 is published, to read them all back to back.

I do love Ethan and Wyatt, even though they can be complicated, immature and annoying, and as a couple, they have the potential to crash and burn, but both of them are committed to their relationship. They struggle, of course, especially since Ethan doesn't always understand what drives Wyatt, and how his history continues to influence the decisions he makes, and how he sees himself. Wyatt comes across as resentful on occasion that Ethan's life to date has been fairly easy, and seemingly forgets that Ethan has been hurt too.

Some of the issues felt forced to me, though I liked that Wyatt didn't freeze out Ethan this time around as he had in the past, when Ethan does something immature. Part of me was also hoping that Ethan would have grown up a bit more in this book, but that wasn't always the case. I never doubted that he thought Wyatt hung the moon, but Ethan does on occasion come across as rather immature. I realize they're both still very young, so maybe I should cut them some slack.

In this book, they're also not living in dorms anymore - they're renting a room in a crappy apartment for the summer while doing internships - so this newfound freedom and privacy translates into lots and lots of sexy times, though, while definitely hot, there were so many that I started skimming them toward the end.

It also occurred to me during my reading of this book that this trilogy might have worked better overall if the three books had been released as one large volume, because neither book 1 nor book 2 really told the whole story. There is growth for both Wyatt and Ethan in this final book, which I appreciated, and they're better at being adults than in the first two, but Ethan still tends to fall back on his parents, whereas Wyatt doesn't really have that option. His uncle is still in the picture, and there's some additional plot around that, which I thought was rather well done, even if it felt like a bit much - it did highlight that Wyatt and Ethan do work as a couple, and that Ethan has a really good heart, and that Wyatt has finally started believing that they have a future.

Overall, this book was a fitting ending to this trilogy, and I enjoyed reading it.

I was very happy with how the author wrapped up the stories of Wyatt and Ethan. Spending the summer together in less than ideal conditions has the potential to make or break their relationship. We have both points of view, and watch how they try to temper their natural instincts to be better people. Ethan tones down his intensity, his impulse to plan and predict the future (at his lowest points, beginning it will be without Wyatt). And Wyatt curbs his inclination to hide, to withdraw, to stop talking, and shows he can open his feelings to Ethan.

It's all very mature.

Except when they aren't. So, there's public kinky smexy times, there's rudeness towards house-mates and co-workers, and there's stubbornness when it comes to family.

If you read the first two, you will want to see how it all plays out. And I am sure you'll be satisfied.

Copy provided by publisher, via Netgalley, and read with thanks. Out April 17.

So they don't have to spend their summer vacation apart, Ethan manages to snag an internship, so he can follow Wyatt to Pittsburgh. The summer heat makes everything miserable and insecurity and doubts begin to seep in. Can Ethan and Wyatt's relationship survive the summer?

With each of these installments I've fallen a little more in love with Ethan and Wyatt and I'm so happy they are finally getting a happy ending. The road to said happy ending is a bumpy one, but so worth it. Ms. Mitchell manages to recapture the chemistry between Ethan and Wyatt from the previous books. I loved watching them grow and mature, both individually and as a couple. I loved getting to revisit Uncle Owen and Christine. They are such a strong support system for Wyatt, but also a voice of reason when the doubts begin to plague both Ethan and Wyatt.

The story is well-written, it's paced well and filled with angst, romance, sweetness, laughter, love and of course some steamy sex. The love Ethan and Wyatt share comes off the pages at you. Saying goodbye to these young men is so bittersweet. I have loved this series and can't recommend it enough!!

*Copy provided to me via NetGalley for my reading pleasure, a review wasn’t a requirement.*

3.5* Technically, this gave me the ending that I'd wanted for these guys, but tbh, the 'vehicle' to get the guys here, was...rather clumsy.

Ethan and Wyatt's tale has been some time in the making, and when I read book 2, I ended up a little irritated at the longish wait until this book, and now that I've read it, I wonder why the overall tale wasn't simply told over 2 books. This added very little to their relationship, but perhaps, if I read between the lines, tested things a little by bringing outside factors in and making the guys learn to deal with them? Not sure that these 'outside factors' need mentioning, and not sure that the guys learned all that much.

The book, tbh, was very little Wyatt and Ethan and more 'everything else filler-y' - I couldn't quite get it all. The saving grace for me is that the book ended up 3 years on from when the guys met, on Thanksgiving day, with a happy event to follow the next day.

ARC courtesy of Carina Press and NetGalley for my reading pleasure.

3.5 stars - I so wanted to love this book, and this series. K.A. Mitchell is an auto-buy author for me, but this one, though it had many parts that I loved, just didn’t have enough oomph for me to love it. I was hoping that once they got settled in their relationship that they would move onto acting like men instead of high school boys. They are young, I get that, but I just could not relate to them as mature or even college students.

In the end, I was glad I’d read the entire series, but I was left wanting more. Maybe that’s because this author has knocked my socks off with some of her other series that I set the bar too high? Whatever it is, I am still a major fan and will no doubt push people out of my way to grab her next book.

A nice conclusion to the series, I liked it a lot.

Relationship Status is a sweet slightly angsty short story that wraps up the Ethan & Wyatt series. Wyatt has an internship with an engineering company in Pittsburgh and Ethan can’t stand the thought of a long distance love affair for the summer so he, with the help of his mother, wrangles a summer internship for himself.
Ethan has not yet declared a major so when he is asked what he wants to do he invents “lawyer” out of the clear blue sky. While he may not want to be an attorney he does find focus in his work with the ACLU.
There is a catastrophe that involves Wyatt’s uncle, who has been Wyatt’s savior so many times in his life, and now it’s Wyatt’s turn to return that loving favor. It would again mean being apart for 4 months, so Ethan being Ethan, finds a solution.
The ending is super sweet and I loved that the families are there with them. I’m still disappointed in Ethan’s snooty mother, but she is what she is and Ethan knows how to deal with her. I enjoyed this series and the finale is a perfect HEA.