Rating: 5
Steam: 3
PoV: dual, 1st person
Series: Inevitable #1
Genre: contemporary romance, MM
Tropes / tags: age gap, hurt / comfort, grumpy / sunshine
“My weekends with you are my favorite time, don’t you know? I give everything else up—I don’t wanna give this up too.”
I absolutely loved this story! Stories like this, hurt/comfort and characters with troubled pasts, is where Riley Hart really shines. There was so much heart in Sam and Emerson’s story – truly a beautiful and amazing read.
I totally lost myself in their story and didn’t want to put the book down until I was done. Sam had my heart from the beginning of the story and he was just so much fun to read about! With his background he had to grow up fast and his character felt older than his age at times, but despite his struggles he still managed to keep his sunshiny personality and he was such a great match for Emerson. He mercilessly called Emerson out, kept trying to make him laugh with his bad jokes and they just had such an easy and strong connection with each other from the start which I completely adored!
Emerson was more grumpy and still suffering from past traumas and ghosts, my heart really hurt for him and everything he’d been through, and it was so good seeing Sam managing to bring some light back to his life. Even if their relationship started out as purely physical and only for the weekends, it wasn’t long before they both got emotionally involved. Their relationship was so pure, they were truly great for each other and their interactions made me smile a lot.
The story was so well written, engaging and the characters felt genuine and real. I can’t recommend this enough, and I hope you will fall in love with these guys and their story as much as I did! I can already tell that this is a book that I will go back and reread a lot.
He chuckled without looking at me, and I decided that it would be my responsibility to make him do that more often. That I wanted to find a way to earn that sound as much as possible, for Emerson and for myself. Because I didn’t think he had any happiness in his life, maybe hadn’t for a while and, well, that wouldn’t do. Not on my watch.
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