REVIEW: ILYBSM by JE Birk, Rachel Ember, & Leslie McAdam

ILYBSM

(I LOVE YOU BOTH SO MUCH)

by JE Birk, Rachel Ember, & Leslie McAdam

Release Date: December 10, 2022

Review

When I found out that JE Birk, Rachel Ember, AND Leslie McAdam were writing an MMM holiday book together…well, I may have squealed and done a bit of a happy dance! I mean really, it’s a reader's dream!

I don’t read a ton of MMM, but largely because it isn’t common, but I really do love a good throuple.

Navigating a relationship isn’t easy at the best of times, but when it’s three people, that’s a lot of personalities, feelings, and needs to navigate.

Jeb, Embry, and Adam (wonder where those names come from LOL), became tight the moment they met at college. They were all straight, but they were close, and never shy. The night before graduation though, something happened to tear Embry and Adam apart, and by extension the whole group.

Jeb’s been kept in the dark and has been stuck in the middle ever since. Until one day, hopped-up on painkillers from his broken wrist he summons them both.

Now, all back together again, tension is high, and secrets are about to be revealed. Their feelings for each other is the biggest of them all. But with a mission to help save Jeb’s tree farm to keep them moving forward, they may have a chance to mend the past and find an expected future.

Set in small-town Vermont with a host of amazing friends and one questionable goat., you’ll fall in love with this very poly farm region.

This was so well written. I loved all three of these guys so much. They were all complicated, deep, and funny, and they all brought something beautiful to the table. They were also fire together (I’m still fanning myself).

When I discovered at the end that our favourite firefighters would be getting their own story…well, I may have squealed again!

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Synopsis

A Holiday M/M/M Romance

Everyone has secrets. I’ve kept some big ones from my two best friends, and I know they’ve got a few of their own. After all, Embry and Adam never told me why they stopped talking to each other the night we graduated college. For my part, I’ve never told them that I’m bi—or that I’ve been in love with both of them for years. I’m also definitely not telling them I’ve mismanaged my family’s tree farm so badly that it’s about to go out of business right before Christmas.

But when I crash off a ladder hanging up holiday lights and break my wrist, they come running like Santa’s elves. They’re both very grumpy about seeing each other again, but I can’t be sorry to finally have an excuse to get them in the same place. Wait until they find out we’re all sleeping in one bed…

At least their feud is put on hold when they discover what a mess I’ve made of my business. Soon the three of us are scrambling to pull off a Christmas miracle and save the farm. And maybe it’s the magic of the holidays, but a whole lot of feelings and long-buried truths are coming to the surface—and our friendship is starting to become something much bigger.

Will we survive the season? Or are all my dreams about to be crushed this Christmas?

ILYBSM is a sweet and steamy contemporary holiday m/m/m polyamorous romance about three former best friends. It stars Jeb, a sweetly oblivious farmer who’s the hottest mess to ever grow trees in Vermont; Embry, a mechanic who can fix any engine but not a relationship; and Adam, a graphic designer and organizational whiz who irons his sheets. It features truths that slip out thanks to homemade eggnog, a demon goat who looks fabulous in a Santa hat, and an unconventional happy ever after.

About JE Birk

J.E. Birk was raised in Vermont and is now adulting in Colorado with intermittent success. She is a long-time lover of stories, and she writes and reads in worlds where imperfect characters find their happily ever after.

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About Rachel Ember

Rachel was born and raised in the midwest USA, and now lives there voluntarily, a life choice she only sometimes questions. On the small farm her menagerie calls home, she happily juggles her voracious reading and writing habits with caring for her kids and pets.

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About Leslie McAdam

Leslie McAdam is a California girl who loves romance, Little Dude, and well-defined abs. She lives in a drafty old farmhouse on a small orange tree farm in Southern California with her husband and two small children. Leslie always encourages her kids to be themselves - even if it means letting her daughter wear leopard print from head to toe. An avid reader from a young age, she will always trade watching TV for reading a book, unless it's Top Gear. Or football. Leslie is employed by day but spends her nights writing about the men you fantasize about. She's unapologetically sarcastic and notoriously terrible at comma placement.

Always up for a laugh, Leslie tries to see humor in all things. When she's not in the writing cave you'll find her fangirling over Beck, camping with her family, or mixing up oil paints to depict her love of outdoors on canvas.

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