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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
5 Hearts
***Tag team review with Cupcake! ***
Me and this book, we got a thing goin’ on and it’s too strong to let it go now.
This book did it for me in so many ways. I am a huge fan of the friends to lover’s trope and I adore unrequited love. I blame John Hughes for my addiction to stories that frustrate the holy heck out of you with waiting for the couple to get together. This was a test in the frustration department turned up to eleven but it couldn’t have been told any other way if we wanted a bit of reality in the romance.
Kelly Cannon has been in love with his best friend Britton “Blue” Montgomery since they were 12. They are the best of friends, the best friends you could ever hope to have or ever want someone else to have. They are in one another’s pockets, getting in all sorts of trouble but always having the other’s back. They share Kelly’s family and even as adults, the besties hashtag is staying strong. But Kelly is so in love with his best friend and his best friend is so clueless that Kelly sabotages a very public proposal and inadvertently sets into motion what will be the end all be all of his existence.
Blue Montgomery is all about the world of the NFL and his position of tight end *grins* on the Aventura Outlaws. He loves what he does and he has everything he can think of. A great career, different woman at his beck and call as well as in his bed and he has the decades long close friendship with his best friend Kelly. But Blue needs to take a moment and check his life skills play book before he loses everything that means anything to him. It’s that love is everything, EVERYTHING sort of thing and Blue is so damn clueless.
I loved this book. I loved how witty, snarky and downright funny Kelly is with everyone but mainly how he is with Blue. He is in love with his best friend but under all the unrequited longing, Blue IS HIS BEST FRIEND and their friendship flies off the page and smacks you in the face. The fact that everyone around Kelly knows how he feels is hilarious because while they can see the heart eyes on Kelly, they can also see how Blue’s eyes track his best friend around the room.
When Kelly decides he needs a break from Blue to figure out how to deal and really own his feelings, Blue doesn’t know how to deal and needs to be in Kelly’s space and quick. But Kelly isn’t around because he has to go back home and face his parents who didn’t know he was gay but was proposed to by a man on national television. Yes, it’s as crazy as it sounds but the book is so much fun. Kelly’s family is amazing and the whole coming out is one for the books. But… there are some other things that happen dealing with bunk beds, admiration of ones ass and a mutual albeit solo exploration that leaves Blue questioning everything he thought he knew.
I loved Blue’s sexual exploration. It wasn’t quick and insta anything because Blue takes his time to do some soul searching when it comes to his feelings for Kelly. Sure, some of that soul searching was physical and required a bit of liquid courage, but Blue recalls everything this new man on man experience gives him. This new deal gives Blue exactly what he’s been missing and not just because it’s with a man, it’s because it’s with Kelly. Blue just needs a bit of time to come to terms with what he’s feeling and what he wants *ahem* some dick *ahem* and what it means to his life and his football career. Wow. Did I just talk in circles or what? Trust me, it will make sense when you read it.
I know the book is frustrating with the push and pull between these two but I think if Blue submitted his love for dick card too soon, it wouldn’t have been believable. He knows he loves Kelly as a friend, he knows he’s never felt what he does in bed with Kelly with anyone else but Blue needs to wrap his brain around it to be on the same page with his heart. He’s just really freaking lucky that Kelly loves him so much because Blue, really needed to unfuck his shit.
Now, Kelly. OMG I loved Kelly. I got his crush on his best friend and I got him taking what small bits of Blue he would offer and storing them away in his heart and his spank bank. It’s hard to get what you want, even for one night, and go back to best friend jail without passing go or getting a sloppy but sexy blow job. He is head over heels in love with Blue and is so clueless about Blue’s true feelings. These two took the road less traveled and it indeed made all the difference. They just took the smallest of baby steps to reach their destination.
I admit the end threw me for a three second loop I wasn’t prepared for. But when I took a moment it all made sense. Sure, it could have been an over the top Disney ending but really, it couldn’t have gone any other way. I am just going to say that Kelly had tunnel vision when it came to being with Blue, to getting Blue to admit his feelings and them to be together as a romantic couple so that end, it made sense. He wasn’t thinking outside of the Blue/Kelly bubble of them as lovers so when his bubble gets pin pricked, he freaks out a bit. I do love Blue’s response though and that very end? GAH! Killed me.
This book, is smoking hot. Kelly and Blue have amazing chemistry together that my fingertips started to singe while they explored and got it on. I fully enjoyed them finding their way from best friends to friends with benefits to the love of each other’s lives.
Oh and one last thing? I loved Connor O’Rourke. Connor needs a book.
Please?
Pretty Please?
Kay.
I’m done
***Tag team review with Cupcake! ***
Me and this book, we got a thing goin’ on and it’s too strong to let it go now.
It’s not just physical attraction or sex or being buddies. I love you.
This book did it for me in so many ways. I am a huge fan of the friends to lover’s trope and I adore unrequited love. I blame John Hughes for my addiction to stories that frustrate the holy heck out of you with waiting for the couple to get together. This was a test in the frustration department turned up to eleven but it couldn’t have been told any other way if we wanted a bit of reality in the romance.
Part of me thinks I could fall in love with you.
The other part of me knows I already have.
Kelly Cannon has been in love with his best friend Britton “Blue” Montgomery since they were 12. They are the best of friends, the best friends you could ever hope to have or ever want someone else to have. They are in one another’s pockets, getting in all sorts of trouble but always having the other’s back. They share Kelly’s family and even as adults, the besties hashtag is staying strong. But Kelly is so in love with his best friend and his best friend is so clueless that Kelly sabotages a very public proposal and inadvertently sets into motion what will be the end all be all of his existence.
Blue Montgomery is all about the world of the NFL and his position of tight end *grins* on the Aventura Outlaws. He loves what he does and he has everything he can think of. A great career, different woman at his beck and call as well as in his bed and he has the decades long close friendship with his best friend Kelly. But Blue needs to take a moment and check his life skills play book before he loses everything that means anything to him. It’s that love is everything, EVERYTHING sort of thing and Blue is so damn clueless.
“How long have you been in love with him?”
“It’s hard to remember a time when I wasn’t.”
I loved this book. I loved how witty, snarky and downright funny Kelly is with everyone but mainly how he is with Blue. He is in love with his best friend but under all the unrequited longing, Blue IS HIS BEST FRIEND and their friendship flies off the page and smacks you in the face. The fact that everyone around Kelly knows how he feels is hilarious because while they can see the heart eyes on Kelly, they can also see how Blue’s eyes track his best friend around the room.
When Kelly decides he needs a break from Blue to figure out how to deal and really own his feelings, Blue doesn’t know how to deal and needs to be in Kelly’s space and quick. But Kelly isn’t around because he has to go back home and face his parents who didn’t know he was gay but was proposed to by a man on national television. Yes, it’s as crazy as it sounds but the book is so much fun. Kelly’s family is amazing and the whole coming out is one for the books. But… there are some other things that happen dealing with bunk beds, admiration of ones ass and a mutual albeit solo exploration that leaves Blue questioning everything he thought he knew.
This. This was what I’d needed. I might not have been ready to admit it to anyone else, but, goddamn it, I could admit it to myself.
I loved Blue’s sexual exploration. It wasn’t quick and insta anything because Blue takes his time to do some soul searching when it comes to his feelings for Kelly. Sure, some of that soul searching was physical and required a bit of liquid courage, but Blue recalls everything this new man on man experience gives him. This new deal gives Blue exactly what he’s been missing and not just because it’s with a man, it’s because it’s with Kelly. Blue just needs a bit of time to come to terms with what he’s feeling and what he wants *ahem* some dick *ahem* and what it means to his life and his football career. Wow. Did I just talk in circles or what? Trust me, it will make sense when you read it.
I know the book is frustrating with the push and pull between these two but I think if Blue submitted his love for dick card too soon, it wouldn’t have been believable. He knows he loves Kelly as a friend, he knows he’s never felt what he does in bed with Kelly with anyone else but Blue needs to wrap his brain around it to be on the same page with his heart. He’s just really freaking lucky that Kelly loves him so much because Blue, really needed to unfuck his shit.
Now, Kelly. OMG I loved Kelly. I got his crush on his best friend and I got him taking what small bits of Blue he would offer and storing them away in his heart and his spank bank. It’s hard to get what you want, even for one night, and go back to best friend jail without passing go or getting a sloppy but sexy blow job. He is head over heels in love with Blue and is so clueless about Blue’s true feelings. These two took the road less traveled and it indeed made all the difference. They just took the smallest of baby steps to reach their destination.
When the heart was involved, sometimes you didn’t get second chances.
I admit the end threw me for a three second loop I wasn’t prepared for. But when I took a moment it all made sense. Sure, it could have been an over the top Disney ending but really, it couldn’t have gone any other way. I am just going to say that Kelly had tunnel vision when it came to being with Blue, to getting Blue to admit his feelings and them to be together as a romantic couple so that end, it made sense. He wasn’t thinking outside of the Blue/Kelly bubble of them as lovers so when his bubble gets pin pricked, he freaks out a bit. I do love Blue’s response though and that very end? GAH! Killed me.
This book, is smoking hot. Kelly and Blue have amazing chemistry together that my fingertips started to singe while they explored and got it on. I fully enjoyed them finding their way from best friends to friends with benefits to the love of each other’s lives.
Oh and one last thing? I loved Connor O’Rourke. Connor needs a book.
Please?
Pretty Please?
Kay.
I’m done
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Very good. The angst was sooo well written. Yes Blue, suffer the consequences of your own choices. There wasn’t that much smut but it was really well written and the buildup was gold. honestly i’d reread this shit so hard
I liked it! This story incorporated some of my favorite tropes. GFY, Sports, Friends to Lovers, it's all in here. Plus, it's a rom-com featuring Kelly's awesome dry wit. My favorite kind of humor.
Kelly made the story for me. A science nerd with a hopeless lifelong crush on his straight, athlete, best friend. His sarcasm and self-effacing ramblings were LOL moments.
Kelly's best friend, super star NFL player,non hetero, Britton "Blue" Montgomery was a little harder for me to like. His decisions and reactions sometimes rubbed me the wrong way. I also wondered at a couple of plot flows with him. I came away thinking he was very lucky to have someone like Kelly in his life.
Overall a lovely, enjoyable read.
A huge thank you to Elf Wide Minds and Blue Skies for gifting me this book.
Merged review:
I liked it! This story incorporated some of my favorite tropes. GFY, Sports, Friends to Lovers, it's all in here. Plus, it's a rom-com featuring Kelly's awesome dry wit. My favorite kind of humor.
Kelly made the story for me. A science nerd with a hopeless lifelong crush on his straight, athlete, best friend. His sarcasm and self-effacing ramblings were LOL moments.
Kelly's best friend, super star NFL player,non hetero, Britton "Blue" Montgomery was a little harder for me to like. His decisions and reactions sometimes rubbed me the wrong way. I also wondered at a couple of plot flows with him. I came away thinking he was very lucky to have someone like Kelly in his life.
Overall a lovely, enjoyable read.
A huge thank you to Elf Wide Minds and Blue Skies for gifting me this book.
Kelly made the story for me. A science nerd with a hopeless lifelong crush on his straight, athlete, best friend. His sarcasm and self-effacing ramblings were LOL moments.
Kelly's best friend, super star NFL player,
Overall a lovely, enjoyable read.
A huge thank you to Elf Wide Minds and Blue Skies for gifting me this book.
Merged review:
I liked it! This story incorporated some of my favorite tropes. GFY, Sports, Friends to Lovers, it's all in here. Plus, it's a rom-com featuring Kelly's awesome dry wit. My favorite kind of humor.
Kelly made the story for me. A science nerd with a hopeless lifelong crush on his straight, athlete, best friend. His sarcasm and self-effacing ramblings were LOL moments.
Kelly's best friend, super star NFL player,
Overall a lovely, enjoyable read.
A huge thank you to Elf Wide Minds and Blue Skies for gifting me this book.
GFY has become a favorite of mine. I'm not sure why b/c I kinda hate the weird headspace one is in and the back and forth about making a move.
But I love it and I loved this one.
But I love it and I loved this one.
The story itself is nothing special - probably a M/M Romance story that you can read often and everywhere. (Not that I often do ... but that's what I hear from friends).
One is in love, the other isn't (or doesn't realise it and thinks he's strictly straight). There's physical attraction, then they make out, then they deny it, and the cycle repeats until we eventually come to a finale, which I won't reveal here. (Which you can probably guess, though).
Like I said, nothing special - light reading and that's okay.
All in all, I liked the style of narration (even if I only got along with the first-person perspective thanks to the audiobook and different narrators) and for the most part, I found the language pleasant. The characters were nice too - I don't think I'll remember them long, but they were likable.
What I didn't get on with, though, was Blue's behavior towards Kelly. Always pushing him away and taking advantage of him, so to speak.That might sound cruel, but that's exactly what it is. Maybe love really does make you a little stupid and blind, I dunno.
But as I said, light reading for in between, which you can easily enjoy if you like the genre.
I listened to the audiobook and for me, it was also a good exercise to improve my hearing skills.
One is in love, the other isn't (or doesn't realise it and thinks he's strictly straight). There's physical attraction, then they make out, then they deny it, and the cycle repeats until we eventually come to a finale, which I won't reveal here. (Which you can probably guess, though).
Like I said, nothing special - light reading and that's okay.
All in all, I liked the style of narration (even if I only got along with the first-person perspective thanks to the audiobook and different narrators) and for the most part, I found the language pleasant. The characters were nice too - I don't think I'll remember them long, but they were likable.
What I didn't get on with, though, was Blue's behavior towards Kelly. Always pushing him away and taking advantage of him, so to speak.
Spoiler
Having sex and getting his hopes up and then still thinking they can just be friends, blahblahblah. The guy is lucky Kelly let him do all that to him and was still available in the end.But as I said, light reading for in between, which you can easily enjoy if you like the genre.
I listened to the audiobook and for me, it was also a good exercise to improve my hearing skills.
I feel like I read one half of a book (I guess I should have known that seeing this is book 1 in a two part series about this couple)
There was just so much back and forth. I also really did not love either of the characters. Not a fan of Blue and Kelly was pretty meh.
This relationship seemed to be based on possessiveness and jealousy rather than love.
Fingers crossed book 2 is better!
There was just so much back and forth. I also really did not love either of the characters. Not a fan of Blue and Kelly was pretty meh.
This relationship seemed to be based on possessiveness and jealousy rather than love.
Fingers crossed book 2 is better!
2.5⭐️ I love a bi-awakening trope but this was not done well.