Rating: 5
Steam: 3
PoV: single, 1st person
Genre: contemporary romance, MM
Tropes / tags: friends to lovers, pining, second chance
He looks naked and real, and unreal, and so unspeakably beautiful I can’t breathe in or out.
It’s him.
Romeo.
My Romeo. My friend. My lover.
My life.
The pining and heartbreak was real in this one – Romeo Falling was a gorgeously written romance with a truly hard-won HEA!
Romeo Falling was a slowly building story, with a ton of heartbreak and pining, and Jesse H Reign had me in tears quite a few times. It was easy to become invested in these men and their emotionally charged story, to the point where I didn’t want to put it down. I loved getting to know Romeo through Jude’s eyes and memories, and seeing Jude trying to puzzle together what really happened between them and why things fell apart.
Jude and Romeo’s story was full of miscommunication and lack of communication, but it built up the story in a spectacular way and everything came together beautifully. I didn’t find it frustrating, it was more intriguing and made me curious about the events and the truth about what happened between them. The alternating chapters from the past gave a lot of insight to their friendship, as well as a deep understanding of what Jude and Romeo meant to each other. The intense emotions between them in the past was also a big contrast of the way they acted around each other in the present, and made the emotional scenes hit even harder for me.
Romeo Falling was a fantastic story that had a vice-like grip on my heart while reading; all that pining, the pain, the promises, the open windows… I’m in awe of how Jesse H Reign wrote this story. It was a beautiful and epic love story with all the angst and feels, and I can’t recommend it enough – this book needs to be on your TBR!
“I never…I’ve never understood how they do it. You know, how everyone else acts normal around you, like…like, you’re not the most beautiful thing they’ve ever seen.”
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