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WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS CHEATING!
Okay now that I got what I know to be a deal breaker for a lot of people out of the way, holy fuck am I glad that is not a deal breaker for me. Because this book was AMAZING. It was the kind of book that I will be revisiting. It is the kind of book that made me want to immediately go and purchases Marley Valentine's entire body of work.
This book is a friends-to-lovers book, which I've learned is a major weakness for me.
We have Gael and Jordan as our main characters. Jordan is openly gay and moved in with Gael's family when he was a teenager, after being kicked out of his own home for being gay. But the two boys were best friends long before that. Gael was the kid that saved Jordan when he was bullied in elementary school and the two boys were insperable ever since. And somewhere along the way, Jordan fell in love with Gael.
Which serves to be a problem, because Gael is engaged to a woman named Elena.
Valentine does an amazing job at not making Elena out to be any kind of villain. She sees that Gael and Jordan have feelings for one another and is the sole person in the book outside of them to know what happened between these two men when they were twenty-one. My heart actually ached for her throughout the back half of the book, especially when we were given a few insights to her through her own point of view chapters.
The front half of this book takes place over a weekend. It takes place at Gael's bachelor party and during it, Gael and Jordan confront the emotions and attraction they've had towards one another. And then disaster strikes, which leads into a back half that had me positively dying to read more.
This book is high heat and has a lot more angst than is standard for this genre, but it is well worth the read. I felt so much for both MCs throughout the story.
READ THIS BOOK. Seriously, read this book. It is beautiful and angsty and left me all up in my feels. Honestly I wish I could unread this book just to read it again for the first time. As it is, I will be revisiting this book and venturing out to Valentine's other works.
** THIS IS AN HONEST REVIEW OF AN ARC PROVIDED BY GRR **
Okay now that I got what I know to be a deal breaker for a lot of people out of the way, holy fuck am I glad that is not a deal breaker for me. Because this book was AMAZING. It was the kind of book that I will be revisiting. It is the kind of book that made me want to immediately go and purchases Marley Valentine's entire body of work.
This book is a friends-to-lovers book, which I've learned is a major weakness for me.
We have Gael and Jordan as our main characters. Jordan is openly gay and moved in with Gael's family when he was a teenager, after being kicked out of his own home for being gay. But the two boys were best friends long before that. Gael was the kid that saved Jordan when he was bullied in elementary school and the two boys were insperable ever since. And somewhere along the way, Jordan fell in love with Gael.
Which serves to be a problem, because Gael is engaged to a woman named Elena.
Valentine does an amazing job at not making Elena out to be any kind of villain. She sees that Gael and Jordan have feelings for one another and is the sole person in the book outside of them to know what happened between these two men when they were twenty-one. My heart actually ached for her throughout the back half of the book, especially when we were given a few insights to her through her own point of view chapters.
The front half of this book takes place over a weekend. It takes place at Gael's bachelor party and during it, Gael and Jordan confront the emotions and attraction they've had towards one another. And then disaster strikes, which leads into a back half that had me positively dying to read more.
This book is high heat and has a lot more angst than is standard for this genre, but it is well worth the read. I felt so much for both MCs throughout the story.
READ THIS BOOK. Seriously, read this book. It is beautiful and angsty and left me all up in my feels. Honestly I wish I could unread this book just to read it again for the first time. As it is, I will be revisiting this book and venturing out to Valentine's other works.
** THIS IS AN HONEST REVIEW OF AN ARC PROVIDED BY GRR **