Review: Do not let the M/M stop you from reading!!  AMAZEBALLS!  Have tissues on standby!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
I adore the Love Series!  Like Reid and Maddy and the clan are some of my favorite book friends out there!  So when I heard Ms Collins was writing a M/M series for Dylan.  We met Dylan in Let Love Stay and feel in love with him.  But M/M. I was a little nervous.  I don’t read M/M…. I tried once and its just not for me.  But for Ms Collins, I thought If I can get more Reid, I will try.  Reid is definitely worth it!  OMGAWD!!!!!!!!!!  I am so glad I went out of my comfort zone for this one.  The book is basically broken into two parts.  Dylan and Shane and Dylan and Conner.  The first half of this novel seriously broke my heart.  Had me in a sobbing pile of mush and I just wanted to crawl into a corner with my kindle and blanky! Now if you have read the other books in the series you know why this is so depressing.  I have been directly effective by someone I love dearly committing suicide and the guilt and heartbreak that comes after and this just nailed the emotions that come with the aftermath.  This is told in multiple POV’s and is a complete story.  Also even though this is part of series, it can be read as a standalone.Shane and Dylan had been lift long friends.  They were best friends far as long as they could remember.  Dylan was comfortable about his sexuality.  He knew girls were not for him.  He secretly crushed on his best friend for years knowing the feelings would never be reciprocated.  Until the day something did happen at baseball camp.  Ashamed for how Shane was feeling he fought his feelings.  Shane knew how his father and Reid felt about Dylan’s sexual orientation and how they strongly disagreed with it.  His Father was very vocal about it, and he could not disappoint his father.  For years he suppressed his feelings and fought what he felt in his heart was right.  Finally he gets the courage to act on his feelings.  Again this first half of the novel is so heartbreaking and tough to read emotionally.  I am getting teary eyed just as I type this review.  Gawh…  I would like to say that Dylan and Shane get their happy ending.  But faced with the disappointment and depression, Shane takes things into his own hands.At this point let’s just say I’m a blubbering idiot.  Thoughts are not coherent and I don’t know how I can go on reading this book! But I know there is much more to this book so I press on…Dylan has never fully recovered from the Shane’s death.  The guilt that he bears has made his life lonely.  He doesn’t feel like he deserves love when he feels like he could have done something to stop Shane.  Until one day while him and Reid are checking out a new gym that opened up in the neighborhood.  Enter Conner is all sort of things yummy!  He’s built, sexy has hell, and a MMA fighter.  But he has been working through his own issues and personal drama.  He assumes when he sees Dylan and Reid together that they are in a relationship so he doesn’t approach Dylan.  Weeks go by and finally after some coaxing from Reid (oh how I missed him… sigh…) Dylan approaches Conner.Can Dylan finally find the happiness he deserves with Conner or will the guilt over Shane’s death be too much?  You just need to read to find out!  Again… don’t let the M/M stop you reading this.  If I would have not opened up to this kind of story I would have missed this amazing novel!  5 huge stars!