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A review by bee_thebibliophile
Just Bromantically Invested by Saxon James
3.0
I’ve been waiting for Madden and Penn’s story for a while now and I liked it, but didn’t love it as much as I was hoping.
Madden Young and Penn Jackson have been best friends since high school, played college baseball together, moved to Seattle together and started their own business as business partners. To say they’re totally ingrained in each other’s lives would be a bit of an understatement. But Madden loves Penn as more than a friend and Penn has absolutely no idea, so there’s some awkwardness there that they haven’t had to navigate before. They’re codependent and both a little needy, but it mostly works for them since they’ve been such big parts of each other’s lives for so long.
Even though Madden and Penn are best friends, their communication skills are seriously lacking - there’s so much miscommunication/lack of communication here that it started to drag the story down and took me out of the romance. I wasn’t really convinced that these two would work together long term - they both had a tendency to self-sabotage or spiral when things were going too well. Their romantic relationship just didn’t quite gel for me.
I felt like there weren't as many moments with the Bertha boys in this one as in others, but when they were around, I loved it. Definitely could have done with more! And the addition of Lana and Lisa felt unnecessary since Madden and Penn could have figured things out in so many different ways. But, I’m dying to get my hands on Xander’s book next - he’s been such a big part of each book so far and I can’t wait to finally get inside his head.
Madden Young and Penn Jackson have been best friends since high school, played college baseball together, moved to Seattle together and started their own business as business partners. To say they’re totally ingrained in each other’s lives would be a bit of an understatement. But Madden loves Penn as more than a friend and Penn has absolutely no idea, so there’s some awkwardness there that they haven’t had to navigate before. They’re codependent and both a little needy, but it mostly works for them since they’ve been such big parts of each other’s lives for so long.
Even though Madden and Penn are best friends, their communication skills are seriously lacking - there’s so much miscommunication/lack of communication here that it started to drag the story down and took me out of the romance. I wasn’t really convinced that these two would work together long term - they both had a tendency to self-sabotage or spiral when things were going too well. Their romantic relationship just didn’t quite gel for me.
I felt like there weren't as many moments with the Bertha boys in this one as in others, but when they were around, I loved it. Definitely could have done with more! And the addition of Lana and Lisa felt unnecessary since Madden and Penn could have figured things out in so many different ways. But, I’m dying to get my hands on Xander’s book next - he’s been such a big part of each book so far and I can’t wait to finally get inside his head.