Book safety, content warnings, and tropes down below.

I suppose once you saw a guy naked and stuck your dick in them, it was a bit melodramatic to freak out because you find them cute.

I’m sad to see the author has used AI to make character art (on the book’s Amazon page) as well as the book cover. Definitely taking off a star because of it.

I got an audio ARC for this book, and I had a good time listening to it. I immediately took a liking to Felix. He’s an interesting and endearing MC. I feel like this was very close to being super freaking great. It’s still good, but there’s quite a bit of stuff and several situations where I wanted *more*. More details about Felix’s past, his medical/mental health problems, more about the story ‘villain’ and how that entire situation was resolved, etc. It was a bit like having your back scratched, but the scratcher kept missing the itchy spot. Still feels good, but leaves you frustrated.

Most of all that might just be a me-thing as well, because I really adore deep dives into characters with mental health disorders. I was also a little disappointed by the lack of any conversation about safe sex. They don’t use a condom ever, and when Felix realizes (mid-coitus), he doesn’t tell Luke, and it’s never brought up in the book other than Felix’s internal monologue when he notices. That sort of thing kinda fits with Felix’s personality, but didn’t seem like something Luke would do without discussing it.

Maybe one day, I would stop veering toward men I could never have, craving male attention and fearing it.

I realize this ended up sounding very negative. It’s difficult to discuss those things without it sounding 100% bad, but I really did enjoy large parts of the book.


My parents are the reason I want to believe in an afterlife because then they get to be rotisseried in hell for the rest of forever.

⬇️ Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️

⚠️ Tropes & tags ⚠️
Mental health rep
Past trauma
Ex con
Bisexual awakening
Friends to lovers
Only one bed
Mild somnophilia

⚠️ Content warning ⚠️
Mixing medication and alcohol
Past sexual child abuse
Past child abuse
Drunk driving
Mentions of past drug use
Brief mentions of self harm (past)
Disassociation
Unsafe sex
Somnophilia
Accidental overdose
Medical emergency
Hospitalization

⚠️Book safety ⚠️
Cheating: No
OM/OW drama: Luke’s past date and hookup is mentioned, but no drama or details.
Breakup: Yes
POV: 1st person, dual POV
Genre: Contemporary romance, M/M
Strict roles or versatile: Strict roles
MC age: 28 and 34
Pages: 344

I figured out you were painfully heterosexual.” “Painfully?” “Horribly.” “Okay, I get it, you lamented my straightness.” “Mourned it, set up an altar, lit some candles, threw on a veil, and threw myself to the ground for six hours as I wept openly.”

Felix shared all those ‘private’ things because it gave the illusion of openness, of being vulnerable, all while keeping the genuinely fragile parts of himself locked deep inside, hidden not through stubbornness and walls, but through obfuscation and a bit of social trickery.


I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.