I'm reading my way through the series and I was looking forward to reading this one. I liked the MCs - Cam and Jeremy - for the most part (Cam more than Jeremy - I really liked his back story and his vulnerability) and I'm a sucker for 'have been secretly in love for years and finally get together' stories. I do enjoy drama in the form of a stalker or disgruntled ex as well so I was pleased to finally be reading this.

While the writing was as technically great as ever from these authors,and the sex was smoking, I didn't enjoy this as much as I have the other stories I've read from them.

The build up of 'will they/won't they' for the MCs was resolved too quickly. One minute, Jeremy was almost too nervous to walk out and say hello to Cam, the next, he's confidently seducing him at a wedding. He seemed like two different people. And I love a fond endearment, but the nicknames and endearments that started from that first dance became a little cloying.

I wonder if the resolution of the sexual tension came about so quickly because the authors tried to fit too much into the one book. There were many different characters we had to get to know and each seemed to have their own plot thread - Cam's best friend and his boyfriend, his other best friend and her relationship drama, Cam's niece and her issues with her mother as well as finding out Jeremy's best friend - who was suddenly moving to town - could be her father, Ben and his past with Cam's sister and his sudden desire to be a daddy, the MCs relationships with their families, the staff at the vet clinic... It was crowded and the stalker storyline which had intrigued me nearly got lost.

I was startled by the unexpected threesome in the middle of the stalker drama. While I like a good three-way, this seemed to come out of nowhere and added absolutely nothing to the plot. And then, after Cam is badly injured in a car accident, Jeremy and Patrick go back to Cam's home and fuck away the night, without either one of them fighting at all to see Cam. Patrick's current lover works at the hospital, for goodness sake. And Cam just kind of shrugging it off and saying he'd intended for them all to spend the day in bed anyway... It felt very OOC for this insecure man. I realise that his and Patrick's relationship is special, but it just off-putting. Had it happened earlier in the story, I would have put it down.

I wish I had liked this more. Each story on it's own would have been an intriguing read, but I feel like there were too many tales for the book and none of them were told as well as they could have been.
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All right, this book is quite a challenge for various reasons, and so you are warned, don't continue to read if you don't like spoilers, since I probably am not able to explain all this book left to me without using a bit of them.

First of all please tell me where is the small town USA where the two main characters live; it's a wonderful place, where everyone knows everyone else, where a widow mother brings up not only her two sons, but also another runaway boy. A place where that same mother doesn't freak out when her teenager daughter gets pregnant and she doesn't ever know who is the father, and that becomes her son's best friend when he comes out. A place where a teenager crush could last 15 and more years and could, at last, become the real thing.

Cameron is a photographer and he has a pretty good life, a nice independent house, a loving family and good friends. He is just out an abusive relationship, but he was good enough to realize that it was not good for him and got free; now yes, he has some self-esteem issues, but nothing serious. And so when he has the chance to meet again Jeremy, his teenager crush, he is open and ready to accept him in his life. On the other side Jeremy is finally happy that things happen at the right moment: also him his bringing a torch for Cameron since their teenager years, but for a reason or the other he has never made a move. Now both of them are free and willing, and for Jeremy is pretty easy to convince Cameron to give him a chance: flowers, restaurant and a good night of sex and Cameron is totally convinced. And here is the first moment when I was a bit perplexed on Cameron: for a man who is just out of an abusive relationship, he is quite 'friendly', but then, the reader knows that Jeremy is Cameron's first and real love, and so maybe it's better for us not to wait to much for seeing them happy together.

I was almost drowning in sugar, with a perfect picture of family happiness, when a stalker from Cameron's past decides that instead he is not at all happy that Cameron found his true love. And so reader please enter Patrick, Cameron's best friend and the runaway boy that Cameron's mother welcomed in her family. Patrick was the first person that Cameron informed of his blossoming relationship with Jeremy, and he did so calling Patrick at 2 in the night while the man was in bed with another man. All right they are pretty close so at the moment the reader, me, didn't find strange that Patrick was not angry, and then he had the chance to have another round of sex with the man in his bed, that almost made me thing that Patrick and Keith were another couple in the story. But no, Patrick disappeared only to enter again when Cameron is threatened: he is right there for him, he encourages him, and when something very nasty happen, he comforts him while Jeremy is temporarily not available... wait a moment... is Patrick bringing Cameron to bed? Oh no, no, no... ah, phew, no, they are only lying in bed, one under the cover and one on it. For a moment I fear that... NO! now Jeremy is back and they are having a threesome?!? Oh well, Cameron is willing, Jeremy is willing, Patrick is willing (Patrick is a slut, he is always willing!), all right I can accept it... But wait: Cameron went out and he is supposedly in danger, and Jeremy is having sex with Patrick?!? All right, all right, I know that Cameron knows it, and that it is only a way to let it go fear and tension, but still, it's really hard to accept for me.

Joke apart, what I want to say is that I'm not totally convinced that the 'sex with all' turn the book took was all of my liking, but this is something that arrives from my gut. Otherwise, the book is quite full of both funny than interesting characters, not only Cameron, Jeremy and Patrick 'the slut' (sorry I have to say it, but don't get me wrong, I like Patrick), have their development, but also all the other characters around, from Diane, Cameron's mother, to his niece Emily, to friends Ben and Kennedy, all of them, even till the less important like Jeremy's employees or Patrick's colleagues. And don't forget that I said that I like the 'sugary' atmosphere of this small town USA, it's a good place where to live, so also the setting is nice. I'm not disappointed by this book, you can't always read the same story, and probably if Jeremy and Cameron met, made love, and walked toward the sunset in perfect harmony, this would be only another sappy story. In this way, it's different, and maybe better... but still, if I was a man and I had a boyfriend, I would take him far from that slut of Patrick ;-)

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