Jane aka Coughy019's Reviews > Wreck Me Forever

** spoiler alert ** Tropes: age gap, MC, secret relationship, brother's best friend
Feels: 4/5
Steam*: 3.5/5
Kinks: n/a
Angst: low
HEA: yes
Pairing: MM
Triggers/potential icks/content warnings: violence, unsafe sex

Reviewing this after a reread. I wasn't writing reviews back when I read this the first time.

Lucas is 22 and he's going to school to become a doctor. He is gay but in the closet when it comes to his family. He's not terribly experienced. He's a bit of an oblivious character, he doesn't know how attractive he is, and he gets into his own little world when he focuses. His older brother is in a motorcycle club. He moves in with his older brother. He starts to have a crush on Wreck aka Wade, a 34 year old MC friend of his brother's.

Wreck is intrigued by Lucas and protective and possessive of him. When other guys start trying to get with Lucas, Wreck decides that is not happening, he wants Lucas for himself. Lucas is Wreck's bisexual awakening, he'd only been with girls before. They take their relationship slow, Wreck doesn't want Lucas's brother to forbid their relationship.

There's a nice fondness and protectiveness between them. The characters are likable. The story and relationship unfolds in an entertaining way. It's funny how a couple people around them realize the relationship before they come out with it.

One thing that I didn't love about this book was how it was written in such a way that I could hear the cringey syrupy drawl that Wreck spoke with. He talked to Lucas as if Lucas was a damsel in need of protection and this was an old school country western. Bit cringe.


Some notable moments:

It's so adorable how oblivious Lucas gets when he is focused. "“He had the door unlocked while having his head in a book and music playin’. He didn’t even look at me when I entered. Didn’t even listen when I said I was goin’ to kill him.” Had he said that? Well, dang."

This is such a nice reason for keeping their relationship secret. Secret relationships usually aren't secret for good reasons. "At least with Death there, we’d be able to scare the others shitless to keep their mouths shut before Saint got between us with his threats. I wanted us to be stronger before that happened because I didn’t want to worry that Lucas would listen to his brother."


*FYI about steam: I rate steam based on a combination of quality & quantity. I note kink separate from steam because I don't want to underrate steamy reads that don't have much kink.

**Note about spoilers: I like to comment on the plot of a book in reviews, so I almost always mark my reviews as containing spoilers. But I try to avoid spoiling the big dramatic moments! As a reader, I personally like to know what I'm getting into before I read a book so I know more about the content and if it's to my taste/mood, so I try to give that information in my reviews for myself when I'm considering rereading and also for other readers.