Review: A rating....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2013
My Review:I love a good friends to lovers romance. This one was good because Brenden was so far in the closet, Liam never knew, even though they were best friends for a long time. But Brenden wanted to join the Marines and that was during the "don't ask, don't tell" era so he never, ever tempted fate and his future by letting his sexuality slip. Now that policy in the military is defunct and Brenden is going after the one guy he always wanted, but could never have, his best friend from high school, Liam.Liam never had any idea that Brenden was gay. He was always attracted to him, but for obvious reasons, could never do anything about that. To find out now that things could have been different is quite a blow.This was a good, hot little book. I enjoy the 1 Night Stand series and seem to enjoy them even more when the characters have a prior connection. Add in the military aspect of Brenden's and yep, this was good! Even though it's a 1NS, it also maintained an element of realism in that Brenden is very upfront about his military career. He's in the military for the long haul and that means a deployment is on the horizon. I thought the author handled that unknown very well for these two characters. I've never read her books before, but since this is #9 in this series, I will DEFINITELY be checking out some of her prior books in the series (although, it should be noted that this book absolutely works as a stand-alone book).