Review: Great friends-to-lovers romance with adorably imperfect kids
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2013
Two male long-term best friends and business partners fall in love with each other. One is bisexual and unhappily married with two adorable kids, and one is straight (or so he thought) and single with no kids.This book is up there for me with Tere Michaels' "Faith & Fidelity"! It's a bit of the same Gay-For-You/Out-For-You kind of book, though with a significant difference: the wife of the man who has kids is not dead, she is still alive and they are still married when the two male best friends fall in love.The wife is portrayed as a really vicious creature, BUT her background is later explained, and we learn why she became the hard-hearted woman she is. More, she has the opportunity to redeem herself. In fact, in this book, there is no totally villain or totally good character. The two male heroes and the wife are flawed, they all are despicable and loveable.The last chapter is fantastic. Because the subject is so difficult, what with cheating and kids affected, as a reader I needed a good satisfying end: this is romance after all, and I want to feel good when I finish reading one. Well, the author gives a good closure for the two men AND for the wife as well. That was important to me because I've had enough of reading gay romance where women are portrayed badly just because the love is between two men and the woman is "in the way". Eli Easton is clearly not afraid to tackle difficult subjects in romance, and she does it well. Kudos.