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A review by ladymacbeth2024
Because He's My Guy by Sasha Avice, Sasha Avice
5.0
The author released a free bonus scene through her website: we can see George and Finn's life over the next few years and it's absolutely beautiful.
5 stars
Sasha Avice doesn't write the usual mm books, her stories are complicated, difficult, they haven't got the easy solutions and her MCs have to work hard for their HEA.
This book is about George, 31 years old, ex football player and now coach, who is closeted and in a 12 years relationship with Joq, head of surveillance at the same facility where George works, and Finn, a 20 years old rookie who immediately falls in love with his coach/idol.
This book is connected with a freebie, His Boyfriend's Rookie, that narrates the same story from Joq's pov. In this book (Because He's My Guy) Joq seems a side character, he doesn't speak a lot, but I strongly recommend to read the freebie because his pov is essential to the story.
This story is tricky, it involves sleeping and falling in love with other people but I'm not sure it could be addressed as cheating. Joq and George have, in fact, an agreement: since George is adamant to never coming out, Joq (who's out and proud) is allowed to sleeping around with whoever and whenever he wants. George is allowed too, but he's a monogamous type and he never had sex with other people in 12 years.
This arrangement causes the death of Joq and George's love from the start: I'm not saying people in open relationship don't love each other, but this kind of agreement was unfair to the two of them. Joq was never allowed to be out with his boyfriend, while George had to share his boyfriend's bed with other people (even if they turned Joq's adventures into foreplay).
But above all, George agreed with that to placate his strong guilt to not come out and Joq with his need to fool around at any cost made him feel like he wasn't enough. George is indeed a confident man on the field and with his players, but he's got a lot of fears and doubts in his personal life. And Joq takes advantage of that (not consciously, at first), because he knows that the fear of being outed will hold George in their relationship: until 75% of the book, George still considers his relationship with Joq his safe steady place.
But, when George starts communicating with Finn (via texts, at first, then phone calls and meetings), he feels a strong connection and slowly falls in love with him because for the first time he feels wholeheartedly loved. That's what makes Finn so different from Joq: not his age, not his sweetness, not his brightness, not his innocence, not the sex, but the way he's able to love George, a complete inevitable way.
So, in addition to his guilt of not coming out, George starts feeling guilty for having feelings for Finn too and that will make him do a lot of mistakes with both his men, especially with Finn: George hurts him several times, making bad choices, saying wrong words, shutting him out, being impulsive sometimes and too closed off other times.
I'm not able to talk about Joq without leaving spoilers, I just say that his work put him in a convenient position and I cannot understand why George never thought about that (I cannot believe George could be so naive). I don't like very much that his presence taunted a lot of loving moments between George and Finn without them knowing.
Joq was consumed by his jealousy over George's feelings for Finn, but he could have maybe prevented what happened if only he's had the guts to openly talk to his boyfriend.
I'm really looking forward to read more books about this series (especially Lacy's), in the meantime I highly recommend this.
I received an Arc of this book from Gay Romance Reviews and this is my honest review.
5 stars
Sasha Avice doesn't write the usual mm books, her stories are complicated, difficult, they haven't got the easy solutions and her MCs have to work hard for their HEA.
This book is about George, 31 years old, ex football player and now coach, who is closeted and in a 12 years relationship with Joq, head of surveillance at the same facility where George works, and Finn, a 20 years old rookie who immediately falls in love with his coach/idol.
This book is connected with a freebie, His Boyfriend's Rookie, that narrates the same story from Joq's pov. In this book (Because He's My Guy) Joq seems a side character, he doesn't speak a lot, but I strongly recommend to read the freebie because his pov is essential to the story.
This story is tricky, it involves sleeping and falling in love with other people but I'm not sure it could be addressed as cheating. Joq and George have, in fact, an agreement: since George is adamant to never coming out, Joq (who's out and proud) is allowed to sleeping around with whoever and whenever he wants. George is allowed too, but he's a monogamous type and he never had sex with other people in 12 years.
This arrangement causes the death of Joq and George's love from the start: I'm not saying people in open relationship don't love each other, but this kind of agreement was unfair to the two of them. Joq was never allowed to be out with his boyfriend, while George had to share his boyfriend's bed with other people (even if they turned Joq's adventures into foreplay).
But above all, George agreed with that to placate his strong guilt to not come out and Joq with his need to fool around at any cost made him feel like he wasn't enough. George is indeed a confident man on the field and with his players, but he's got a lot of fears and doubts in his personal life. And Joq takes advantage of that (not consciously, at first), because he knows that the fear of being outed will hold George in their relationship: until 75% of the book, George still considers his relationship with Joq his safe steady place.
But, when George starts communicating with Finn (via texts, at first, then phone calls and meetings), he feels a strong connection and slowly falls in love with him because for the first time he feels wholeheartedly loved. That's what makes Finn so different from Joq: not his age, not his sweetness, not his brightness, not his innocence, not the sex, but the way he's able to love George, a complete inevitable way.
So, in addition to his guilt of not coming out, George starts feeling guilty for having feelings for Finn too and that will make him do a lot of mistakes with both his men, especially with Finn: George hurts him several times, making bad choices, saying wrong words, shutting him out, being impulsive sometimes and too closed off other times.
I'm not able to talk about Joq without leaving spoilers, I just say that his work put him in a convenient position and I cannot understand why George never thought about that (I cannot believe George could be so naive). I don't like very much that his presence taunted a lot of loving moments between George and Finn without them knowing.
Joq was consumed by his jealousy over George's feelings for Finn, but he could have maybe prevented what happened if only he's had the guts to openly talk to his boyfriend.
I'm really looking forward to read more books about this series (especially Lacy's), in the meantime I highly recommend this.
I received an Arc of this book from Gay Romance Reviews and this is my honest review.