Sean Ashcroft

There are so many tropes in this book! Reconnecting with the one that got away. Undercover at the couples retreat. Fake boyfriends (with real feelings). Only one bed.

Sean does a really good job of writing grownups - these guys have angsty insecurities, but they also are so willing to communicate honestly with each other! They work TOGETHER to get through things (and to outfox the bad guys). I think I like this one even better than Cocky. I was smiling like 90% of the time. I even squeeed show more with delight a couple of times. show less

This was all kinds of sweet and fun. I'll admit I love the fake boyfriend trope anyway, but when it all clicks like this one does, it's extra special.

Jay has been lusting after his boss Harper ever since they started working together. Little did he know that Harper had fallen hopelessly in love with him not long after. When Harper's mum interrupts things when they just get going... what else is there to do but to bring Jay home for Christmas?

Jay and Harper are well fleshed-out characters, show more especially in such a shortish story. Of course I would have loved more, but as it stands it's a prefect holiday read. Just what you want this time of the year! show less

I'm a huge sucker for the 'We have to get married because: reasons'- trope. That combined with 'friend to lovers' I'm set. Unless the writing is totally and utterly garbage, most of the time I will enjoy it.

But the way bisexuality was handeled (you know the fact that it is a thing) really topped this book from 'nice read' to 'OH MY GAWD, SO CUTE!'.

p.s. rollerderby sounds really brutal.

This is a very, very hard review to write. I've never been so close to DNF-ing a book to be perfectly honest, and considering I've only ever done that to 1 book, I think it says a lot! However I kept hoping it would get better...

There is so much I feel I want to say about this book. It had a great promise and could have been an absolute ripper of a story. But, it wasn't. To be honest, it was a rather big let-down.

There are major inconsistencies throughout the whole book. I found things that show more made me question time lines, medical inaccuracies, actually not just inaccuracies, but pure made-up kinda stuff. Behaviours that didn't mesh up with background we were given. All in all it was a rather big mess. And to top it off, the writing felt immature as well.

I'm not blaming the author. If this story has had beta readers, they need to be replaced. The editor of this book needs to be sacked. Not because of any grammatical or spelling issues, no simply because they should have had the sense to point out all the issues I've mentioned above!

While the characters are nice, I really never felt I got to know them well. The story was sweet, but we got no insight into how/why/who/where things happen. They just happen; no background into the marriage proposal, the healthcare issue, nothing. No discussion about how "yes I'm proposing, but remember I'm a straight man and even though you're gay and we're both just 26, you can't expect me to have sex with you"... In fact, there was no discussion about how that was going to go at all. Really? Two healthy 26 year old males and no discussion or thought about not having sex for any foreseeable future? See where I'm heading?

As I said, I feel this could have been a fantastic story about two men coming together to help each other out of very dire and difficult circumstances. But all in all it was just a hot mess and I struggled to finish it. show less