Review: I fell in love with oh-so imperfect Christo and Damien!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2014
This was a gem of a find for me, I loved almost everything about this book, its real-ness, its slow build to a relationship, even the characters struggle to re-invent themselves professionally in order to stay together. This was a very real book, with all the imperfect and flawed behaviour of two young men, one who was just climbing out of the depression of the end of a long-term relationship and then other who has jerk-syndrome. In fact I liked that they did not get along for starters and then once they started seeing each other they showed each other how much they really loved one another. I did not care for the extensive shop-talk and the business speak, I guess it was a case of write what you know but it could have been skipped, but surprisingly it did not annoy me too much. I loved Christo and his need for a strong relationship with Damien which he himself denied but it was the underlying truth and part of his make-up, I loved Damien too, who was wearing a mask to protect himself from hurt and abandonment but was really eager to strip away the facade and appreciate Christo's affection. More than anything else, it has been a while since I've read such intimate love scenes, where I felt that I was almost intruding into someone's privacy, this made the story even more beautiful for me.