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A review by alexisisreading
Rend by Roan Parrish
5.0
(1/1/24 update) just reread this and wow it still slaps, so sad we never got Rhys’ pov tho
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AHHHHHHHH. I literally don't even know what to say omg. 10/10, claps all around for Matty and Rhys.
That night, for the first time in my life, when I fell asleep, I didn’t wonder if I’d be all alone in the morning. I fell asleep with a kind of dazed happiness that I thought might be monumental, but felt as warm and easy as Rhys’s hand on the back of my neck.
When the book starts Matty and Rhys are already married. We get to see a glimpse at how they met and moments that lead up to them being married but the bulk of this book is focused on the present and how they are currently doing as a married couple. And these two!!!!! Omg. Matty, my beloved. My heart broke the entire time for Matt. Rhys is on tour and Matt just feels so alone. He's not doing well without Rhys and I would imagine that Rhys wasn't doing too well either. I wished we could have gotten Rhys' POV but you know what even that wasn't enough for me to not give this 5 stars.
Sometimes you couldn’t notice how bad things were until something good showed you the difference.
Matt has had a rough go at life. To Matt, Rhys is one of the first good things to happen to him. Because of that he really wants to keep Rhys in the bubble where everything is good and doesn't want to tell him about a lot of his past because he doesn't want to ruin Rhy's perception of the world. Eventually though secrets come out and Rhys and Matt must navigate together how their relationship will progress when there is so much fear.
I really loved these two together. I thought they were perfectly matched. I do really wish we could have gotten Rhys' POV but honestly the whole book being from Matty's POV wasn't a dealbreaker for me. I loved Matty, I loved watching him grow and fall into safety in the fact that he and Rhys could fight and could argue and that didn't automatically mean that Rhys would leave him. Matty finally deciding to let Rhys in was a really beautiful moment in my opinion. Also the possessiveness and spice between these two?? *insert dizzy eye emojis*
“I never thought it was possible to love someone as much as I love you. Like how your brain can’t imagine a color you’ve never seen. I just…I didn’t have the ability to even think of it. And every time I felt more for you, and more, and more, it…it was like I had to break apart the universe and remake it as one where I could love you more.”
Anyway, I really loved this one. More than the first, and I'm exciting to finish this series with the next book!
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AHHHHHHHH. I literally don't even know what to say omg. 10/10, claps all around for Matty and Rhys.
That night, for the first time in my life, when I fell asleep, I didn’t wonder if I’d be all alone in the morning. I fell asleep with a kind of dazed happiness that I thought might be monumental, but felt as warm and easy as Rhys’s hand on the back of my neck.
When the book starts Matty and Rhys are already married. We get to see a glimpse at how they met and moments that lead up to them being married but the bulk of this book is focused on the present and how they are currently doing as a married couple. And these two!!!!! Omg. Matty, my beloved. My heart broke the entire time for Matt. Rhys is on tour and Matt just feels so alone. He's not doing well without Rhys and I would imagine that Rhys wasn't doing too well either. I wished we could have gotten Rhys' POV but you know what even that wasn't enough for me to not give this 5 stars.
Sometimes you couldn’t notice how bad things were until something good showed you the difference.
Matt has had a rough go at life. To Matt, Rhys is one of the first good things to happen to him. Because of that he really wants to keep Rhys in the bubble where everything is good and doesn't want to tell him about a lot of his past because he doesn't want to ruin Rhy's perception of the world. Eventually though secrets come out and Rhys and Matt must navigate together how their relationship will progress when there is so much fear.
I really loved these two together. I thought they were perfectly matched. I do really wish we could have gotten Rhys' POV but honestly the whole book being from Matty's POV wasn't a dealbreaker for me. I loved Matty, I loved watching him grow and fall into safety in the fact that he and Rhys could fight and could argue and that didn't automatically mean that Rhys would leave him. Matty finally deciding to let Rhys in was a really beautiful moment in my opinion. Also the possessiveness and spice between these two?? *insert dizzy eye emojis*
“I never thought it was possible to love someone as much as I love you. Like how your brain can’t imagine a color you’ve never seen. I just…I didn’t have the ability to even think of it. And every time I felt more for you, and more, and more, it…it was like I had to break apart the universe and remake it as one where I could love you more.”
Anyway, I really loved this one. More than the first, and I'm exciting to finish this series with the next book!