REVIEW: If You Want Me Close by Skye Kilaen
Review:
This was a hard-earned happily ever after. These two deal with a number of personal issues that make finding love complicated. The topics are heavy, and there were definitely some tears but not so much as to swallow you under.
This friends-to-lovers story was really sweet in the way that they both showed each other love, even if they weren’t always great at saying it. And they both had their struggles, and though this was a single POV, I liked that it gave the relationship a strong basis of give and take.
I really liked that this was a messy relationship (life gets like that) and it remains so even in the happy ending (because HEA doesn’t mean life is perfect). But throughout the story they mess up, they learn and change and grow and learn how to love each other through the messiness, and there’s joy and sweetness and it was a satisfying story.
Stars: 4
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Synopsis:
Falling in love with your best friend is wonderful… until tragedy means fighting for the romance and the friendship.
Bisexual event coordinator Simon Novotny thrives on connection. He cherishes his large, queer-friendly family and his friends—especially his cute, brilliant work bestie, gay IT geek Ziah Holdaway.
It’s taken forever for Simon to to coax Ziah out of his shell. Time and again people have let him down, especially those who should have loved him unconditionally. But Simon would do anything for Ziah: text him jokes when he's down, bring him homemade lunches, change his tire in the rain. Heck, if Ziah needs a kidney, Simon’s got two.
Minor crush? Maybe, but Simon’s not a make-the-first-move kind of guy. So when an unplanned hookup with Ziah proves their chemistry is off the charts, it also shakes Simon to his core. Because for Ziah, it's not casual, it's love.
Before Simon can fully process his feelings, a life-altering tragedy upends Ziah's world. Simon throws himself into helping and also rallies his family. But for Ziah, family means rejection, and Simon's uber-helpful clan sets off major alarm bells.
Can they find a middle path through the storm, or will this crisis cost them both their romance and their friendship?
A high-heat contemporary M/M romance novel with a guaranteed HEA.
Tropes: friends to lovers, hurt-comfort, grief, nerds in love, bisexual disaster, single parenting.
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