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You & Me by Tal Bauer
5.0
My first book from the author but definitely not the last.
YOU & ME is the kind of love story that creeps into your soul, buries itself inside and brings joy and light to your life. It was a wonderful, beautiful, heartwrenching story that absolutely grabbed me by the heart!
Slow burn, sweetly and truly romantic, fantastic found family, heartbreakingly honest father-son relationships and football. The book is all the above and so much more.
In Luke we have a broken, faded main character who aches after his wife's death and desperatly wants to repair his fructured relationship with his son, Emmett.
He's mostly accepted the fact that he’s never going to be as close to his son as he was when he was little but the empty space inside him urges him to try one more time after he is roped into volunteering as a booster parent at Emmett's football team by the kind stranger he gets to know as a fellow football dad and his son's best friend's father.
I loved every aspect of this incredible story through healing and mending what was broken. Luke and Landon's friendship at the beginning is so honest and sweet and their slow burn romance that just sizzles in the background and sneaks up on Luke is wonderful. I adored how their realtionship progressed, how they immediately knew they are meant to be in each other's life even if at first it was just as friends because they found a soul in each other that speaks to them in ways that they never experienced before.
Their relationship was just so sweet and radiated this feeling of rightness throughout the whole book.
The other massive and amazing relationship development happened between Luke and Emmett. Father and son who drifted apart through neither of them really wanted to. The hurts and aches that they slowly mended between each other was another beutiful aspect of this book. We got to see the loving, adoring but suffering father who feels he will never again be enough and good as a dad. And we see a lost boy who just wants his dad back after loosing his mom. I cried so much over their scenes together it is mildly embarassing.
Then we have the special dad-son relationship between Landon and Bowen too. It's so hearachingly special too in its own way.
And, of course, the true friendship between the boys, Emmett and Bowen.
All in all, the author nailed it with the characters and the relationships in this one. I absolutely adored every sentence. The football references, the drawings, the special shared moments between the characters and their little found family unit, the wine tastings and the sizzling passion. It was just so incredibly special!
Now, what to read next from Tal Bauer?
YOU & ME is the kind of love story that creeps into your soul, buries itself inside and brings joy and light to your life. It was a wonderful, beautiful, heartwrenching story that absolutely grabbed me by the heart!
Slow burn, sweetly and truly romantic, fantastic found family, heartbreakingly honest father-son relationships and football. The book is all the above and so much more.
In Luke we have a broken, faded main character who aches after his wife's death and desperatly wants to repair his fructured relationship with his son, Emmett.
He's mostly accepted the fact that he’s never going to be as close to his son as he was when he was little but the empty space inside him urges him to try one more time after he is roped into volunteering as a booster parent at Emmett's football team by the kind stranger he gets to know as a fellow football dad and his son's best friend's father.
I loved every aspect of this incredible story through healing and mending what was broken. Luke and Landon's friendship at the beginning is so honest and sweet and their slow burn romance that just sizzles in the background and sneaks up on Luke is wonderful. I adored how their realtionship progressed, how they immediately knew they are meant to be in each other's life even if at first it was just as friends because they found a soul in each other that speaks to them in ways that they never experienced before.
Their relationship was just so sweet and radiated this feeling of rightness throughout the whole book.
The other massive and amazing relationship development happened between Luke and Emmett. Father and son who drifted apart through neither of them really wanted to. The hurts and aches that they slowly mended between each other was another beutiful aspect of this book. We got to see the loving, adoring but suffering father who feels he will never again be enough and good as a dad. And we see a lost boy who just wants his dad back after loosing his mom. I cried so much over their scenes together it is mildly embarassing.
Then we have the special dad-son relationship between Landon and Bowen too. It's so hearachingly special too in its own way.
And, of course, the true friendship between the boys, Emmett and Bowen.
All in all, the author nailed it with the characters and the relationships in this one. I absolutely adored every sentence. The football references, the drawings, the special shared moments between the characters and their little found family unit, the wine tastings and the sizzling passion. It was just so incredibly special!
Now, what to read next from Tal Bauer?