We didn’t need a long inner monologue reiterating the things we read just a couple of chapters ago. And a lot of the time, it’s the same doubt that’s come to haunt them again. The characters understandably have doubts, and they think about them often. The problem arose about halfway through when it started to become more and more obvious how repetitive the book was getting. Both the characters were also very likable, and they had the sweetest relationship.

And severe injuries like Brent’s? I loved the care and attention the author devoted to the effects the injuries had on his life and his psyche. I mean, a divorce after twenty years is bound to be a shock. We got to hear about both their struggles. He’s still recovering from his injuries and coming to terms with the end of his career, and that he’ll be in chronic pain for the rest of his life and will never gain the mobility that he had.īoth parts of the story were good, and they were done so well. Whereas Brent is a 29-year-old former NHL player who was severely injured in a car crash. Jon is a recently divorced man with a ten-year-old son, who’s still trying to adjust to being single after twenty years. And when it ended, I honest-to-god said, “Thank fuck,” out loud. Unlike the last book, which was fast-paced and interesting, this one just dragged on and on. Genre: Adult, Contemporary Romance, Sports, M/M It wasn’t the most memorable of reads, but it was well-paced, well-written, had a good plot, a very cute ending, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It made me respect Gabe more as a character. I mean, I didn’t love that there was a conflict, but I loved what and why it was. And, in a rare occurrence, I loved the conflict toward the end.

Because it would’ve gotten very frustrating otherwise. I also like that there was a real, justifiable reason for Alec to keep his job a secret. And I liked that, even though Alec didn’t tell Gabe about being an FBI agent, there was never any doubt that his feels toward Gabe were genuine. And I think both of those were executed and balanced well. The book is equal parts the case and the romance. Like Alec’s real identity and his suspicion that Gabe might be related to the case. The two of them meet via Vino & Veritas, and there are lies involved. Alec, on the other hand, is a grumpy FBI agent who’s currently working undercover. program because he got in with the wrong crowd and got distracted. Gabe is a rich, former party-boy who got kicked out of his Ph.D. The book is interesting from start to finish, and the story takes no breaks. I read it in one sitting, partly because it’s pretty short and partly because it wastes no pages at all. This was a super fun entry in the series.

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