REVIEW: Sugar by EM Lindsey (The Beginning of Always #3)

- July 26, 2024

SUGAR

The Beginning of Always - Book Three

by EM Lindsey

Release Date: July 26, 2024

Review

This is another emotional and gorgeous story by EM Lindsey. A crush and a confession bring these two together for an epic romance.

Juno confesses his recent diagnosis of losing his sight to the cute older man who frequents his bakery stall. Piper may not understand his specific diagnosis, but he does understand what it means to have his health turn his world upside down.

A tentative friendship is formed, which turns to a casual fling that was never really casual, and a road trip to remember.

It’s not just Juno losing his sight, or Piper recovering from his heart condition, it’s also their pasts that continue to influence their lives and in many ways is the biggest hurdle to their finding forever love.

This is an extremely emotionally satisfying read with such a bright future.

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Synopsis

If Juno could describe his life in three ways, it would be:

A little lost.

A little happy.

And maybe a little hopeful.

At least, he was hopeful, but he stops feeling that way when a diagnosis falls into his lap and his entire world turns upside down. Panic sets in and he can no longer remember what it's like to see a light at the end of any tunnel.

Enter Piper, stage right. Juno has been crushing on the older man from behind his bakery counter since Piper started his mall security job. And just as Juno is certain everything around him is going to crumble, Piper appears and makes Juno an offer:

A single trip with a bucket list for everything Juno can reasonably see before he goes blind.

It’s not a cure. It’s barely hope. But it is something no one else can give Juno. And it helps that whenever Piper touches him, when he kisses him, it gives him visions of forever.

He’s terrified what the future is going to look like, literally, but he’s starting to realize there’s still a promise of happiness. He just needs to learn to let himself be vulnerable, and that’s the only real battle he has left to fight.

Sugar is the third book in The Beginning of Always series. It contains a swoony, steamy, age-gap, friends-with-benefits relationship, baked goods, northern lights, Jupiter’s moons, picnic dates, waterfalls, a road trip to remember, and the most tender-hearted happily ever after.

About EM Lindsey

E.M. Lindsey is a bisexual, agender gay romance writer currently living in the S.E. United States. They're a full-time writer, Classics scholar with a penchant for Ancient Greek, and an avid collector of shoes they will never wear. When they're not found creating happy endings on their laptop, they're either walking their dogs, going on hikes, or enjoying their new home.

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