Book safety, content warnings, and tropes down below.

“You’ve never been in love?” “No. Well, I am with my job, I guess. That’s exciting and worrisome, and it tried to kill me. That’s like love.”

Huh, I feel weird about this one. I really love the entire premise and the characters were good, but considering the blurb and all of the trauma and tragedy, it should’ve been emotional and angsty. Instead it didn’t really make me feel anything at all, and the last 30-40% was a bit of a fluff fest and was so sweet it made me roll my eyes, lol. Legit 32 love declarations in a very low amount of pages. It just ended up feeling silly.

The first half was very entertaining tho and I was fully into the story. Just lacked that little extra something.

“I can’t guarantee I won’t be sad again tomorrow.” “I can promise you that if you are, I’ll let you be sad but will also try to make you happy.”

Still, the topics are heavy so check that out before reading, but it wasn’t emotional (to me).

⬇️ Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️
⚠️ Tropes & content tags ⚠️
Rock star
Bodyguard MC
Size difference
Addict MC
Piercings (dick included)
Tattooed MC
Mental illness rep
Hurt/comfort
First times
Strangers to friends to lovers
Orgasm from nipple play
Multiple orgasms

⚠️ Content warning ⚠️
Mentions of past overdose
Addiction (no on-page use)
Self harm (cutting, on page)
Symptoms of depression
Suicidal ideation
Disordered eating (refusing to eat, malnourished)
Vomiting
Mentions of past injury and scarring (gunshot wound)
Side character with cancer
Injured main character (hospitalized)
Injured side character
Addict MC given drugs in hospital
Death of a side character (MC’s friend, off page)
Brief mention of overdose (side character, off page)
Explicit sexual content
Death of side character (cancer, off page)
Grief

⚠️Book safety ⚠️
Cheating: No
Other person drama: No
Breakup: No
POV: 3rd person, dual
Genre: Contemporary romance
Pairing: M/M
Strict roles or versatile: Strict roles
Main characters’ age: Not specified
Series: Standalone
Kindle Unlimited: No
Pages: 232
Happy ending: Yes


He wanted to go back to rehab. He wanted to be safe.

“What else do you like?” Rye pulled out a cookie sheet and grabbed a bunch of tomatoes, a couple of peppers, and some onions and garlic. He cut them all up, sprinkled them with olive oil, salt, and pepper, and then put them in the oven. “Eggs. Mashed potatoes…. What are you doing?” “I’m making tomato soup.” “Soup comes from a can.” Everyone knew that.

Jeff stared at himself in the long mirror, at his pale face, the way his hips pointed, his black eyes. “I hate you.”



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