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A review by bee_thebibliophile
If Only In Our Dreams by Fae Quin
funny
relaxing
medium-paced
4.5
What a dreamy, sweet, slightly awkward yet adorable and funny story - I enjoyed this book so much! It was the perfect way to start off my holiday reads this year.
Robin “Trashmouth” Johnson has been a musician, performing around the world for years and running himself ragged while doing it. He’s neglected his family and taking care of himself in favor of always being on and sinking further and further into poor health due to his unmanaged insomnia. That is, until he meets a man with nice biceps on a plan to visit his little brother in Vermont. Ben Montgomery is the man with the nice biceps, really the nice everything, who is a doctor, the world’s sweetest father to twin Edgar Allen Poe-obsessed 4-year-olds and one of the loneliest men around town. He’s a writer under a pen name and that secret side of him comes out more often than ever when Robin’s around.
Robin and Ben don’t make sense in a lot of ways when you see things from the outside, but once they started talking, they were more alike than they ever could have imagined. They tell each other their deepest, darkest secrets, they fit seamlessly into each other’s lives, they support each other in all of their important decisions and they care for each other on a level that neither of them expected. Robin fits right in with Ben, his twins and the rest of the Montgomery clan, like he was meant to be there as more than just Miles’s older brother/Bubba’s duncle. I loved how rigid Ben melted away whenever he saw that Robin needed him and that Robin finally had a chance to slow down and find himself again with Ben’s reassurance.
These Christmas Daddies books got me right in the feels - I’m excited to see if there’s any more stories in this world now that the Montgomery brothers are all happily off the market!
Robin “Trashmouth” Johnson has been a musician, performing around the world for years and running himself ragged while doing it. He’s neglected his family and taking care of himself in favor of always being on and sinking further and further into poor health due to his unmanaged insomnia. That is, until he meets a man with nice biceps on a plan to visit his little brother in Vermont. Ben Montgomery is the man with the nice biceps, really the nice everything, who is a doctor, the world’s sweetest father to twin Edgar Allen Poe-obsessed 4-year-olds and one of the loneliest men around town. He’s a writer under a pen name and that secret side of him comes out more often than ever when Robin’s around.
Robin and Ben don’t make sense in a lot of ways when you see things from the outside, but once they started talking, they were more alike than they ever could have imagined. They tell each other their deepest, darkest secrets, they fit seamlessly into each other’s lives, they support each other in all of their important decisions and they care for each other on a level that neither of them expected. Robin fits right in with Ben, his twins and the rest of the Montgomery clan, like he was meant to be there as more than just Miles’s older brother/Bubba’s duncle. I loved how rigid Ben melted away whenever he saw that Robin needed him and that Robin finally had a chance to slow down and find himself again with Ben’s reassurance.
These Christmas Daddies books got me right in the feels - I’m excited to see if there’s any more stories in this world now that the Montgomery brothers are all happily off the market!