Review: B+ rating...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
My Review:Okay, this is definitely a "gay-for-you" trope. Christian has been fighting feelings for Shea for a while, but Shea is straight. Although, Shea is the one to make the first move so he's been curious about Christian for a while...but only Christian. He knows that Christian is gay and that's made him wonder certain things about his best friend. When Christian tells Shea about his feelings and that it's killing him to just be friends, Shea accepts that and says that they should try the boyfriend thing and see if that works out for them.For Shea, he knows that he loves Christian...they've been best friends forever. This is just taking things one more step further...something that he's not opposed to because he trusts Christian. The other real component to this is that Shea's entire family died in a house fire a couple of years back. He's alone in this world now and the thought of losing Christian...well, that isn't even an option that he can consider.Overall, I really enjoyed this book. There was a bit of "every emotional drama that could happen" being thrown into the book at the end, but even all that worked for me. I enjoy friend's to lovers and gay for you stories and this one had the added bonus that Shea is basically part of the entire Beck family. They know and love him just as much as they do Christian.I enjoyed Shea and Christian together and although there were moments where the story was a bit unbelievable, I felt like the author made it work overall. They had their really strong friendship that shone through the entire book. They did truly love each other...as friends, and eventually as more. Shea just never really even considered it before. Once he did, it all fell into place and was the most natural thing in the world because they are so close.I liked the entire Beck clan, but whoa... those older brothers had moments where they could be truly cruel to Christian...seriously, the guy was having panic attacks because of them!?! But there were enough good moments between them that I want to go back and read all their stories now because I did like all of their characters.