Wow, this series just got better and better.

You know that feeling you get when you look through your photo albums, and a picture can take you back to the time and place, bring back all the memories and feelings of that instant?

That is how More Than Everything is told.

We get the story of Charlie (Chase) Rhodes and his loves and losses as he goes through his photos.

Spanning over a couple of decades, Charlies takes us on an emotional ride as we learn about the love and losses in his life. Your heart will go from light and loving to heavy and dark with loss. It is one hell of an

Charlie's narration of the story drew this read right into the scenes with him and the two loves of his lives, Scott and Adan. Grrrr did those two piss me off! Yep, I judged them for what they did to sweet, loving Charlie! I wanted to hug Charlie with one arm, and bitch slap Scott and Adan with the other!

I absolutely adored Charlie, he was comfortable in his own skin, he wouldn't change himself for anyone. He stood by who he was and if people didn't love him for him, so be it.


As I read further and further into the story, my heart broke for Charlie, was pieced back together, only to be ripped out and shattered again.

I was overjoyed when this trio all found each other again, but I was still mad at Scott and Adan for their past deeds. While my heart soared for Charlie that the two men who held his heart were back in the picture, I felt that all their issues were resolved a little to quickly. I wanted Charlie to make them grovel, walk through fire, crawl on glass before he let them back into his life. They deserved to have to earn him and his trust back. But at the end of the day, I was just happy that Charlie was happy.


Cardeno C has a way of bringing all three men's stories together seamlessly. She brought different periods in their lives and different POV's across so well that everything and everyone's stories interweaved beautifully.


These are not the first Cardeno C works I have read, and they definitely won't be the last.