✨Lucy IntheSky☄️'s Reviews > Rent: Paid in Full

I had no idea I was going to love this book so much.
I've read Sainted and Stepbro Situation so far and didn't really like it, but I gave this one a shot - and I'm not sorry.
This book was really good.

I can't rate it with full 5⭐, because a few things bothered me, but I'm giving it a very solid 4.5⭐. It's a really good book and it's a great start to the series.

🔵 College roommates
🟣 Rich/poor
🟢 Both bisexual
🟡 Pretty guy/average guy
🔵 Grumpy/sunshine
🟠 Paying for sex, transactional
🔴 Trauma, past bullying, social anxiety
🟢 Bully kink
🌶️ Great sex and plenty of it; both vers

What really got me in this book was how descriptive the author was. Descriptive about the looks of the main characters, about sex, about every single thing, you can't not imagine the setting and the characters here, it's all very vivid and wonderfully described.
That's a pretty important part for me, so I was really glad about such details being added.

The story itself had really good pacing. I gulped it down. I think this was one of those rare books where I couldn't wait to see what comes next, it wasn't predictable or boring and not even once did I roll my eyes, so - douze points.

The story is about two accidental roommates, Miller and Ryan, who both come from very different worlds and have very different lives, but end up being absolutely perfect for each other.

Miller is a guy from a very privileged background. Not only is he tall, blonde and insanely attractive, he's in an ivy league school and he doesn't even have to try to pass grades, everything is pretty much handed to him. He's got good friends, tons of money and can get any guy or girl he wants. He's cocky because he can be, he knows he's got it all.

You're welcome.



Miller gets saddled with a new roommate - Ryan.
Ryan is from a blue collar family, he's an average looking guy, he's in college on a scholarship, he's broke all the time, he also has to work and he detests guys like Miller, who have everything and they're also being jerks about it. He was the victim of some intense bullying from guys like Miller in high school and he developed social anxiety, he feels all wrong about himself, he's closed off, doesn't socialize much, he's tense and he's in a perpetual bad mood.

"I was looking at him, right in his eyes, when he saw me for the first time. His face was a picture. I don't think anyone's ever looked at me like that before. Disgust. Pure and unfiltered. Straight-up contempt without any attempt to hide it. I was weirdly into it."



Miller and Ryan have really good dialogues and Ryan intrigues Miller, he makes him feel alive and present, wakes him up from his boring stale life where everyone indulges him and prances around him, but Ryan definitely doesn't.

Ryan has a weak spot though - he needs money.
And Miller wants Ryan.

So Miller starts offering insane amounts of money to Ryan to get intimate with him, he wants to fuck him badly, he can't stop thinking about him, but Ryan would never let him close, so he's taking a more unconventional route.

The sex these guys have is hot, it's hottttt and there's a lot of it. Ryan is a bottom for most of the book but gets to top Miller by the end of it. He loves bottoming and really lets Miller use and abuse him, but make no mistake, Miller is a total sweatheart, he makes Ryan coffee every morning and when they start exchanging sex and money, he tops that coffee with a blowjob, so Ryan really has it good for a while there, he's getting a fantastic blowjob while he's sipping on his coffee in bed. The perks of being Miller's rentboy.

"It's just that I've never felt like this before. I've wanted people in the past, sure. I've wanted them and I've gotten them, but I've never wanted them like this. This is with me all the time, under my skin, simmering, heating me from the inside, burning when he's close. And lately, since the kiss, it burns even when he isn't."



When Miller hires Ryan for The Boyfriend Experience is when you know that Miller definitely has feelings for Ryan. Ryan does open up and start breaking his inner walls bit by bit, but I felt like Ryan's opening up emotionally to Miller fell a bit short here, when the school year was over Ryan was still very much willing to go home without even talking to Miller about anything, there was no missing Miller, no second thoughts about leaving, so for a very long time, almost until 90% you have no idea how this is going to turn out.

Miller does manage to buy himself more time with Ryan and that weekend at the cabin felt like an important milestone for them, but as the time went on I kept waiting for Ryan's feelings to be told, for him to crumble down emotionally, for his longing, for anything really, and it wasn't really there, it was only Miller's want and desire to make this relationship real, to make Ryan stay.

I understand that Ryan had a terrible past with guys like Miller and didn't want to believe until the end that Miller does in fact have real feelings for him and he's not leading him on, but a little more of something from Ryan would've been great, simply because Ryan came around at the very end of the book. He waited until the very end.

"I like how much he wants me, and I like the fact that he doesn't try to hide it. I like how he's looking at me. Like I'm air, and he's suffocating without me."



I think there's one chapter missing before the epilogue . They end it on a positive note at the cabin and we immediately switch to the epilogue and 6 years later, so I definitely feel like there's a chunk of the story missing, because what happened at the end of the book was not enough (for me).

In the epilogue we find them really happy and going strong, about to get married. It would've been great to read more about them and how they navigated their relationship when they went back to campus, with their friends, families, what was it like now that money wasn't involved anymore? Did they live together, how did it go? I really wanted to read about all of it.

I loved them both and I liked their sexual chemistry and their very emotional and passionate relationship.
I liked the writing, I liked the dialogues and the overall setting for the series, I can't wait for the next installment.