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Show Me Wonders by Riley Nash
5.0
Book safety, content warnings, and tropes & tags down below.
I sit with the ghosts of everything I wanted, everything I lost, the man I can barely remember, the promise I made myself afterward that I didn’t need love to be content. The fear that if I do somehow find love, I’ll erase him completely.
I quite often mention how easily I cry when reading, but this book legitimately made me sob. My face is puffy, it feels like someone rubbed sand in my eyes, and it looks like someone locked a teenager in my room for a week with only tissues and lotion for entertainment, if you look at all the snotty tissues lying around. This book broke my heart into tiny pieces, and it’s too soon to say if it put it back together again or not. Of course it’s another five star book by Riley Nash, because it’s absolutely brilliant, emotional and beautiful, but christ, it wrecked me. I won’t read it again, because it was right at the edge of what I can personally handle, but it was worth it. I think?
I’m running out of things you touched, Ollie.
Oliver is just a beautiful soul who deserves all the good things, and the universe took it’s sweet goddamn time giving it to him. Both MCs had to fight tooth and nail for everything they got, and it nearly wasn’t enough. If you’ve read either of the first two books, you know to expect emotional turmoil of epic proportions from this series, and this one certainly followed through on that.
If only wanting were enough, I’d be the king of everything.
If I had to give some sort of criticism, it would be that I wish we got a longer epilogue. Considering the struggles lasted most of the book, I felt naked and raw and left outside in the cold with how it ended. Personally, I could’ve used a gentler and slower let-down after all that. That’s not to say it wasn’t there. It was, and it was sweet, but I think I needed more.
He gives a little snort, like he’s stifling a giggle. “What now?” “Sorry, it’s just… the fucking romance trope. I’m soooo cold. Here, let me hold you close. Oops, I kissed you. Let me put my dick where you can keep it warm.” When he’s done, I leave him hanging in awkward silence for way too long. “Let it be known that I’m not the one making this weird.”
I’m going to go read something comforting for a bit. Highly recommend though. Fucking fantastic book, but ouch. Bring tissues.
Oh, and someone please get these guys some damn lube.
Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️
⚠️ Tropes & tags ⚠️
Disaster, survival, demisexual/bi-awakening, single dad, strangers to lovers, separated by outside forces, transcends tropes, mental illness, MC in prison, hard-fought HEA, angst, hung bottom
⚠️⚠️ Content warning ⚠️⚠️
Explicit sexual content
Homophobia (brief, from unnamed side character)
*from the author*
A disaster situation
Emotional distress
Claustrophobia
Brief description of vehicle accident
Mentions of blood and dead bodies
Violence
Mental illness
Agoraphobia
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Depression
Mentions of past suicide attempts
Domestic abuse
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Book safety ⚠️⚠️⚠️
Cheating: No
OM drama: No
Third-act breakup: Yes. They are separated for a long time, several times.
POV: 1st person, dual POV
Strict roles or versatile: Strict roles
I sit with the ghosts of everything I wanted, everything I lost, the man I can barely remember, the promise I made myself afterward that I didn’t need love to be content. The fear that if I do somehow find love, I’ll erase him completely.
I quite often mention how easily I cry when reading, but this book legitimately made me sob. My face is puffy, it feels like someone rubbed sand in my eyes, and it looks like someone locked a teenager in my room for a week with only tissues and lotion for entertainment, if you look at all the snotty tissues lying around. This book broke my heart into tiny pieces, and it’s too soon to say if it put it back together again or not. Of course it’s another five star book by Riley Nash, because it’s absolutely brilliant, emotional and beautiful, but christ, it wrecked me. I won’t read it again, because it was right at the edge of what I can personally handle, but it was worth it. I think?
I’m running out of things you touched, Ollie.
Oliver is just a beautiful soul who deserves all the good things, and the universe took it’s sweet goddamn time giving it to him. Both MCs had to fight tooth and nail for everything they got, and it nearly wasn’t enough. If you’ve read either of the first two books, you know to expect emotional turmoil of epic proportions from this series, and this one certainly followed through on that.
If only wanting were enough, I’d be the king of everything.
If I had to give some sort of criticism, it would be that I wish we got a longer epilogue. Considering the struggles lasted most of the book, I felt naked and raw and left outside in the cold with how it ended. Personally, I could’ve used a gentler and slower let-down after all that. That’s not to say it wasn’t there. It was, and it was sweet, but I think I needed more.
He gives a little snort, like he’s stifling a giggle. “What now?” “Sorry, it’s just… the fucking romance trope. I’m soooo cold. Here, let me hold you close. Oops, I kissed you. Let me put my dick where you can keep it warm.” When he’s done, I leave him hanging in awkward silence for way too long. “Let it be known that I’m not the one making this weird.”
I’m going to go read something comforting for a bit. Highly recommend though. Fucking fantastic book, but ouch. Bring tissues.
Oh, and someone please get these guys some damn lube.
Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️
⚠️ Tropes & tags ⚠️
Disaster, survival, demisexual/bi-awakening, single dad, strangers to lovers, separated by outside forces, transcends tropes, mental illness, MC in prison, hard-fought HEA, angst, hung bottom
⚠️⚠️ Content warning ⚠️⚠️
Explicit sexual content
Homophobia (brief, from unnamed side character)
*from the author*
A disaster situation
Emotional distress
Claustrophobia
Brief description of vehicle accident
Mentions of blood and dead bodies
Violence
Mental illness
Agoraphobia
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Depression
Mentions of past suicide attempts
Domestic abuse
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Book safety ⚠️⚠️⚠️
Cheating: No
OM drama: No
Third-act breakup: Yes. They are separated for a long time, several times.
POV: 1st person, dual POV
Strict roles or versatile: Strict roles