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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
2.5 stars
The whole story was just basically about them growing up together. Honestly, I found myself bored and skimming but I wanted to see them come together. There was no internal struggle, they just both admitted that they were in love with one another which is a nice change from the stories I usually read.
The whole story was just basically about them growing up together. Honestly, I found myself bored and skimming but I wanted to see them come together. There was no internal struggle, they just both admitted that they were in love with one another which is a nice change from the stories I usually read.
There are people who come into your life for a reason and sometimes when the reason is no longer there, they float back out of your life. Not true of a best friend. Or, at least, a real best friend. That person, no matter how long you’ve known them, knows all of your hopes and dreams, your fears, your secrets, and all the little things that make up who you are. If you’re really, really lucky then that person is also your soulmate. This is the story of David and Matt who met in second grade and figured out they loved each other almost twenty years later. The very best kind of story.
David is an only child who is very smart and doesn’t make friends easily, or at all. Not until Matt moves into the neighborhood and sits next to him in the second grade. Their friendship starts as most do when you’re seven and they share all of the ups and downs that come in the next ten years until they graduated from high school and head to college. By that time both sets of parents are used to them being joined at the hip and doing practically everything together. Oh, there is worry sometimes on David’s side that someday Matt would fall in love and get married, changing their friendship again, possibly irrevocably. But they are only in college so there is time.
“Hindsight is a wonderful thing. That brief pang when Matt mentioned going on a date, for example. I told myself at the time that it was nothing, but I think deep down, I was jealous. People gravitated to him so easily, whereas I felt like I continually wore a sign saying Keep Your Distance. Yeah, I told myself at the time that I was jealous of his popularity. That was it.”
Please find my full review at Rainbow Book Reviews
David is an only child who is very smart and doesn’t make friends easily, or at all. Not until Matt moves into the neighborhood and sits next to him in the second grade. Their friendship starts as most do when you’re seven and they share all of the ups and downs that come in the next ten years until they graduated from high school and head to college. By that time both sets of parents are used to them being joined at the hip and doing practically everything together. Oh, there is worry sometimes on David’s side that someday Matt would fall in love and get married, changing their friendship again, possibly irrevocably. But they are only in college so there is time.
“Hindsight is a wonderful thing. That brief pang when Matt mentioned going on a date, for example. I told myself at the time that it was nothing, but I think deep down, I was jealous. People gravitated to him so easily, whereas I felt like I continually wore a sign saying Keep Your Distance. Yeah, I told myself at the time that I was jealous of his popularity. That was it.”
Please find my full review at Rainbow Book Reviews
This was a really sweet friends to lovers story, but it wasn't exactly what I expected going in. It starts out in the present, but quickly flashes back to the boys meeting in 2nd grade, and then proceeds to pretty much tell their life story, told in little snippets through the years. Matt moving to town, Matt moving away, Matt moving back, David being smart and shy and awkward, and it was all really sweet.
I had started to wonder why there was never ANY talk about the boys' sexuality. It was David telling their story, but nothing ever got said about girlfriends or boyfriends, being straight or gay, or awkward moments, or ANYTHING, until maybe 75% of the story, when the guys are 22, and they both finally get girlfriends for a little while. That was all a bit weird to me, but I suppose it made sense later on, and all in all, this was just a really sweet story, but quite light on the romance, with barely any steam. It's really more of a growing up, coming of age story than anything else, but that's ok, so long as you know what's in store, and what isn't.
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Vomit, Medical content
This was a really sweet friends to lovers story, but it wasn't exactly what I expected going in. It starts out in the present, but quickly flashes back to the boys meeting in 2nd grade, and then proceeds to pretty much tell their life story, told in little snippets through the years. Matt moving to town, Matt moving away, Matt moving back, David being smart and shy and awkward, and it was all really sweet.
I had started to wonder why there was never ANY talk about the boys' sexuality. It was David telling their story, but nothing ever got said about girlfriends or boyfriends, being straight or gay, or awkward moments, or ANYTHING, until maybe 75% of the story, when the guys are 22, and they both finally get girlfriends for a little while. That was all a bit weird to me, but I suppose it made sense later on, and all in all, this was just a really sweet story, but quite light on the romance, with barely any steam. It's really more of a growing up, coming of age story than anything else, but that's ok, so long as you know what's in store, and what isn't.
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I don't give 5* easily, but this is the ultimate love story, and perfectly written for someone like me that loves to listen stories about people, I loved that we got snippets of Matt and David dynamic duo and them we gost the little comments. Loved it.
Really dislike the story in a story format and the talking to the audience style