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Five Ways A Boy Can Break Your Heart (2014)

by Cate Ashwood(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1627984410 (ISBN13: 9781627984416)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

review 1: I had the distinct pleasure of being the beta reader for this book (Are you jealous? You should be...just kidding) and I can tell you, its quite a wonderful read. As this is my very first contemporary male/male romance novel, these two authors were so believable and so passionate about their craft, I think I finished in a day and begged, "More! MORE!" I love serendipity, I love romance, (being a gay man, I have a particular interest in gay romance believe it or not), and these two deliver. I am sure you will love this and I look forward to another collaborative effort between these two again in the future.
review 2: I have such mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I love friends to lovers stories. On the other, well, bad behavior requires, well,... more anyway…Trey and Liam were friends in boarding school. They room together and they become friends, then best friends Liam wants nothing more than to fit in, Trey wants nothing more than someone to like him for himself. They get that in each other. The two are best friends, writing songs together and getting through high school. Then one day, just as Liam puts the perfect finishing touch on their song, Trey announces he is leaving school and does it in such a hurtful way I actually wanted to slap him. This is where the bad behavior made for an unlikeable character. Yes, Trey was young but still. Trey goes on to be a famous rocker, his success initiated by, yes, stealing their song. When the two are reunited at a benefit concert, Liam playing violin, Trey as a singer, the attraction is still there and I really didn’t want it to be. The way Liam just jumps back in, no discussion of the song until way later, even the whole “why did you rip my heart out with your horrible words” doesn’t occur until later. I can say immediately what I needed to make this higher rated: groveling. I needed more to see Trey had actually remorse for the years in between. His check was, to me and to Liam, a way to just assuage his guilt for theft of something that was intimate, personal and precious. Dedicated second chance, friends to lovers fans may love this but I myself needed more feeling that true remorse was felt. less

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