AUDIO REVIEW: Sol by Con Riley (Learning to Love #2)

SOL

Learning to Love - Book Two

by Con Riley

Release Date: October 14, 2021

Audio Release Date: January 31, 2023

Review

I cannot gush enough about this as an audiobook. Not only is narrator Cornell Collins incredible, but the story is also exquisite. Together they make an absolutely perfect book-on-tape (as I still call them, haha). If I had to pick my favourite audiobook, this would be it.

I was already on a mission to read everything Con Riley has ever written, now I’m adding listening to everything Cornell Collins has done to that list.

The Learning to Love series is one of those must-read ones. Each one is patient and kind, and a little bit heartbreaking. And they all have heartwarming connections and happy endings that soothe your soul.

Sol fits perfectly into the community of people who want to make the world (through the school) a little better. He’s a bit lost and heartbroken. Recently having taken guardianship of his nephew when his mother passed away. Losing his boyfriend as a repercussion. He took a job as an art teacher to provide for his nephew. But he’s not sure he belongs. Until the man he fell for as a teen comes back into his life, grounding him in a way he didn’t realize he hadn’t been.

The connection Sol and Jace have is deep in the fibre of their being. It’s impossible not to wrap yourself up in their story and want to read it over and over (or in this case listen to it).

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Synopsis

Solomon Trebeck’s heart broke the night of his bi-awakening.

Fifteen years later, Sol’s back in Cornwall where it happened, single, shy, and oh-so lonely. Teaching art to kids wasn’t his life plan. Neither is raising a teenage nephew, but with no family left to support him, a live-in job at a boarding school becomes his life raft.

Problem: that life raft is sinking.

Solution: Sol’s first love could have the cash to keep it afloat.

Reconnecting with Jace Pascoe might save the school—the one place Sol’s nephew is happy. Asking for his help opens old wounds, but Jace helps to heal them, fusing Sol’s broken heart back together. However, Jace has his own shadows, no matter how brightly his smile dazzles.

Falling for Jace again could be so easy. It could also be a huge risk when neither of them plans to stay in Cornwall forever….

♥ Featuring sweet angst, hurt/comfort, and second chances for a shy heart, Sol is a standalone MM romance novel in the Learning to Love series with a fulfilling happily ever after. ♥

About Con Riley

CON RILEY lives on the wild and rugged Devonshire coast, with her head in the clouds and her feet in the Atlantic Ocean. Injury curtailed her enjoyment of outdoor pursuits, so writing fiction now fills her free time instead. Love, loss, and redemption shape her romance stories, and her characters are flawed in ways that make them live and breathe. When not people-watching or wrangling her own boy band of teen sons, she spends time staring at the sea from her kitchen window. If you see her, don’t disturb her—she’s probably thinking up new plots.

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