Rating: 3.5
Steam: 2
PoV: single, 3rd person
Genre: contemporary romance, MM
Main tropes: friends to lovers, second chance, small town
We Burn Beautiful was a great and emotional debut from Lance Lansdale!
I enjoyed this second chance romance – it was heartbreaking, sweet and romantic, and I was so invested in these guys! It was a slow, slooow burn, which I felt these characters needed in order to reconnect and for Grey to work things out.
I loved the tension and connection between Kent and Grey – they just couldn’t stay away from each other and they had some really great moments. It was easy to feel for both men and everything they’d been through, Kent had his trauma and Grey was still so sure he’d lose his family if he came out. There was a lot of things and situations in this book that made my heart ache…
Lance Lansdale managed to handle the heavier topics with a bit of a light-hearted approach though, and while emotional, the story never felt too heavy or angsty. I definitely cried through the ending, after rooting so hard for Kent and Grey, it was impossible not to!
There were a few things that didn’t quite work for me, but overall I found We Burn Beautiful to be an enjoyable and captivating story. I really liked the second chance romance and the slow burn – it was very well written and created a lot of great tension!
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