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Blurb
Micah
I’m a broke ex-football player with a bum leg and PTSD. Last summer, I had two choices: the streets, or find a cheap room to rent in the city. I chose the second option, which landed me with a brand-new problem, cos I hadn’t banked on my roommate becoming my best friend. Or that before long I’d find myself head over heels in love with him. Trouble is, even if Sam likes me back, I ain’t fit to be no one’s boyfriend. I don’t know how. All I do is wade through every precious moment and hope that he doesn’t regret the day he ever met me.
Sam
I’m a gay book nerd with no business falling in love with hunky athletes. Micah is the dictionary definition of beautiful, inside and out, he just doesn’t know it. And he definitely doesn’t know I’m ridiculously in love with him. The embarrassing kind of love.
He’s all I can think about.
But it’s not as simple as loving someone who doesn’t love me back. Micah is damaged goods—at least, that’s how he’d put it. The world has chewed him up and spat him out, and he thinks he deserved it. That he’s still the battered mess he was a year ago.
I want to shake him, and shout in his face that he’s not. To force the truth on him and make him believe in himself the way I do. But I can’t save Micah. One day, perhaps he’ll realise that he already saved himself.
REVIEW
Review by: Jennifer
(3.5 stars)
Sam struck it lucky with his roommate, Micah an ex football player (that's soccer for us US people). Micah also feels that he got lucky in the roommate department as Sam does things for him, like cooking breakfast even when he worked late the night before. For both it's extra time they get to see each other, even if they both play it off as something less. Micah wants Sam but his injury and the fact that his life has been torn to shreds by the papers and he feels guilty even thinking to put Sam through that. Sam wants Micah, but he doesn't think that he can even measure up to what Micah wants or needs. After their wants come to light, and they act on their desires, will the press be the reason that the two can't work? Will their life spread out in the news cause what little happiness they created to end?
This was a very deep and slow story; dealing a lot with Micah and his injury and a few other things. For me this was just an ok read with loads of drama. I give this 3.5 stars.
Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.
When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.
Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.
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