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katemmmmreads 's review for:
Without You
by Marley Valentine
It was ok. It didn't grip me like other MM romance books have and the pacing felt off.
The blurb describes Julien as his brother's best friend but he was his boyfriend and that's very different.
It bothered me that Julien never read the letters, even if he couldn't read them after a year, reading them later would have been acceptable. It felt like ignoring something precious that Rhett put effort into with assumptions about what he probably wrote.
Also Deacon never defended himself, he visited his brother fortnightly and let his mother think he didn't even care.
Overall the end resolution felt like it needed more. I needed a 5 years later where you can see how the family dynamic has changed, if the mum tried to fix the relationship, if the sister had a little boy or not. Plus Julien reading those damn letters and getting closure.
The blurb describes Julien as his brother's best friend but he was his boyfriend and that's very different.
It bothered me that Julien never read the letters, even if he couldn't read them after a year, reading them later would have been acceptable. It felt like ignoring something precious that Rhett put effort into with assumptions about what he probably wrote.
Also Deacon never defended himself, he visited his brother fortnightly and let his mother think he didn't even care.
Overall the end resolution felt like it needed more. I needed a 5 years later where you can see how the family dynamic has changed, if the mum tried to fix the relationship, if the sister had a little boy or not. Plus Julien reading those damn letters and getting closure.