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Don't You Dare by CE Ricci
5.0

SCREAMING. CRYING

This book was the absolutely BEAUTIFUL!

I’m so glad I picked up this recommendation from an account I follow on. This book lived up to everything I hoped it would be based on the synopsis and what I’ve been told about it.

Getting to know Keene and Aspen has been a journey. Two polar opposites but best friends since basically since birth and next door neighbors. Getting to see what they were like growing up and their lives while in college made it all that more special.

Things definitely took a turn when Aspen offered to help Keene figure out his sexuality after a night out went downhill based on a dare Keene reacted badly to. That’s where the story took off. Being best friends with someone since birth is a different kind of connection that people only wish they had with someone. These two were MADE for each other whether it was strictly friendship or more. There was no other connection like this in any MM book I have read so far.

Although this book ends on a good note, that doesn’t meant these two didn’t go through hell and back trying to get there. I cried during the hard parts. Laughed during the funny part. Happy danced during the sweet moments between these two. Honestly, They were tragically beautiful. And Getting to see these two individuals separate for the first time in their lives to figure themselves out and to see what the future is gonna hold for their friendship/relationship was something that broke me and healed me at the same time.

The spicy scenes were amazing and I knew Aspen was going to have a deliciously dirty mouth but what I did not expect what Keene to have one just as well. I loved their time together and seeing them baring themselves to one another with no walls up. Just straight up love and trust between these two.