- hurt x comfort - forced proximity - grumpy x sunshine - size difference - first times
A week before his eighteenth birthday, Fallon is forced to move- hurt x comfort - forced proximity - grumpy x sunshine - size difference - first times
A week before his eighteenth birthday, Fallon is forced to move across country to California and is forced to live with his uncle, who he hasn’t seen in three years, after his mom ends up in jail.
His uncle, Joel, is the head basketball coach at the local private school, Acadia Lake Prep, the same school he’ll soon be attending, and Ryder Cruz, his star player and boyfriend’s son, only has eyes for Fallon.
Ryder is happiness personified, and everything that Fallon is not, but the more time spent around him the more the icy exterior Fallon has built around himself starts to melt. While they may have feelings for each other grow, Ryder isn’t out and terrified at putting his future at risk.
I love The Loyal Boys series so much and I fall in love with each new couple that gets introduced, but there’s just something about Ryder and Fallon that have completely stolen the show. I loved everything minute of this grumpy sunshine goodness, and their relationship is so sweet despite all the obstacles in their way. ...more
- hate to love - best friend’s brother - roomies - forced proximity - found family - size difference - bully
I’ve been foaming at the mouth for more of - hate to love - best friend’s brother - roomies - forced proximity - found family - size difference - bully
I’ve been foaming at the mouth for more of Nate and Xavi since I read the beginning of their story in the Anti-Valentine’s Anthology, and Bethany did not disappoint in the slightest with the full length.
The angst, the tension, the heartache… It was everything.
Nate and Xavi have been through it, both hurting/wanting to hurt as they cope with their grief and complicated emotions, and after two years have been thrown together again. Their story is dark, deeply emotional, and oh so devastating, but so fucking good.
I didn’t know Nate’s visceral hatred for Xavi would do it for me, but it really does. The boy is obsessed though and I am obsessed with them. ...more
Tropes: - sports - besties to lovers - fake dating - sexual awakening
Thick as thieves since they were twelve, Rook is the first person Noah tells about Tropes: - sports - besties to lovers - fake dating - sexual awakening
Thick as thieves since they were twelve, Rook is the first person Noah tells about being gay AND that he’s never kissed a guy before. Rook takes it upon himself to be his first, like any good bestie would, but that kiss awakens something neither are prepared for and both agree to pretend it never happened.
Four years later, after a crappy break up with his brother’s best friend, Noah needs a date to his brother’s wedding and Rook jumps at the chance to act as Noah’s fake boyfriend. To save himself a world of hurt, Noah insists on creating a list of rules to make sure the lines between their friendship and his feelings for Rook don’t blur.
Except Rook thinks rules are stupid and meant to be broken, and the more time spent pretending to be Noah’s boyfriend, the more he realizes he’s been in love with Noah all along and now it’s time he showed it.
The Faker Rulebook was such a cute and quick besties to lovers/fake dating romance! Rook was so oblivious to his feelings and Noah was too busy guarding his heart, that this fake dating plan was just the nudge they needed. Their HEA was pretty adorable too ...more
**spoiler alert** This is going to be spoilery and a bit of a rant, but…
So, the book isn’t bad, per se, it’s just not what I was expecting. First off,**spoiler alert** This is going to be spoilery and a bit of a rant, but…
So, the book isn’t bad, per se, it’s just not what I was expecting. First off, it is NOT an enemies to lovers—Xavier used to pick on her when he was 8, that’s it. They reconnect in high school when his best friend dates her best friend AND through their anonymous note passing—which is probably the only thing I really I liked about this book.
Once the big pen pal reveal happens, you kind of expect Vee and Xavier to live happily ever after except jokes on them their letters get posted all over the school and online. Some really poorly done blackmail, cyber bullying and slut shaming ensues—all because of a salty ex girlfriend. How cliche.
AND don’t even get me started when Xavier ***FINALLY*** grows the balls to out himself as one of the pen pals—which he only does after letting the whole school humiliate Vee and his crazy ex gets her scholarship revoked, the shock of him outing his mom for sleeping with a freaking MINOR, his parents make him out to the bad guy and ruined their lives???????