A review by sbelasco40
How to Belong with a Billionaire by Alexis Hall

4.0

The audiobooks for this series continue to be outstanding. This was a satisfying conclusion to the series, with all the requisitie growth happening for Arden and progress for Caspian (even if it is, at times, infuriatingly slow). I adore the character of George, and many points for on-the-page sex with a trans character in a romance novel. This series in general has a level of complexity that I don’t think I expected going into it — but all of Hall’s work is psychologically complex, with characters who come off the page. I think Hall does an especially good job here with showing the ways in which trauma and abuse effect romantic relationships, and those intersections with kink as well, but it doesn’t fall into that territory where it’s like, “Oh, this person was abused, so of course they now mimic the behavior of the abuser.” Caspian is a survivor but he is also many more things than that, and Arden is delightful in his insistence that there is nothing wrong with Caspian’s desires, no matter how they originated.

Also: please give Ellory a book now, thank you.