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Collide by Riley Hart

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loishojmark's review against another edition

3.0

An okay story. Good and so on, but life altering. Okay that might be to much to expect from a book like this, but you know what I mean ;o)

shaunnah511's review against another edition

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3.0

A sweet start to the series, if a little overly angsty. I enjoyed Cooper and Noah - particularly Noah. The GFY genre seems to be hit-or-miss for me. Sometimes I love them, sometimes they frustrate me. Collide was somewhere in the middle.

isalaur's review against another edition

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slow-paced

4.0

This book really took a while to get going for me. I almost DNFed it but had gotten far enough in that I didn’t want to give up. I wasn’t really vested in the MCs so didn’t really care if they got their HEA. The first half just dragged for me.

Then when the narrative started to shift and it became less whiny and redundant things started cooking…and I’m not just referring to the steamy scenes. The narrative picked up, there was reflection, there was emotional growth, there were important (though selfish) realizations, there was character development and relationship growth. Everything started clicking.

You could see the crisis point coming a mile away and when it happens it is gut wrenching. Some of the elements of the denouement I saw coming but others were a major plot twist. A plot twist that reinforced and multiplied my feelings for one character.

The ending is both sweet and sad. I’m guessing there was some foreshadowing of another couple in another book. I hope so because that looks like it has the potential for a good story. So a slow start but a great end.

anatrasullacamelia00's review against another edition

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1.0

Che amarezza.
Sarebbe anche una storia carina, ma il fatto che sia un "gay for you" l'ha completamente rovinata, per me.
Non esiste archetipo letterario più dannoso per la comunità LGBTQIA+, specialmente per quella gay.
Fino alla fine ho sperato che Cooper capisse di essere bisessuale e non "unicamente attratto da donne e dal suo migliore amico".
Che delusione.
Per tutti i ragazzi gay che si imbattono in """rappresentazione""" di questo tipo: il vostro migliore amico etero per cui avete una cotta, non si dichiarerà mai a voi. Non sarete l'eccezione. Questa è solo una fantasia di chi feticizza le coppie gay.
So che il romanzo è vecchiotto, ma così come lo è ancora oggi, anche allora questo tipo di narrativa è problematica.
Non voglio fare di tutta l'erba un fascio, ma è proprio per questo che sono sempre parecchio restio a leggere romance gay scritto da donne etero cis.
Alla fin fine, noi gay veniamo sempre trattati come una fantasia perversa, e con questo io non ci sto.