2.5 stars

I really wish I liked this one more than I did. It was really cute and sweet, but a lot of things didn’t work for me and I had a hard time believing these two were made for each other.

Brief summary:Theo and Camden have been best friends for years. Camden has been in love with Theo for ages but he’s scared to tell him because he doesn’t think he’s good enough for him and because he’s scared of losing his best friend. Theo asks Camden to find him a date to Theo’s ex’s wedding. Camden decides to pair him up with his boss at the sex shop where he works at and he then introduces Theo to sex toys to prepare him for their date. Then they start to have sex and Theo realizes he loves Camden too.

The things I enjoyed:

Most of the stories where someone has been in love with someone for years but doesn’t want to tell them, it doesn’t really make sense why. And here, it kinda did make sense. Theo and Camden had a third best friend before Nd Theo and that guy started dating and when they broke up, they stopped breaking friends and Camden didn’t want to lose Theo and it made sense in this context and I could understand why Camden was scared of telling Theo he loves him.

I really liked Camden. He was so sweet and he was so good to Theo and I really appreciated his character. I also really liked Theo. He was really awkward and not the best at social cues and I really loved that about him. I like how obvious he was sometimes, he was very sweet. I also really enjoyed the little glimpses of them when they were actually together, they seemed like a cute couple, I really would have liked to see them as a couple more.

I also really enjoyed the sexual exploration, I really enjoy a good sexual exploration and it was nicely done here.

What I enjoyed less:

I felt so bad for Cadem for most of the book, he kept trying to get Theo to date him but Theo was so obvious and didn’t understand that Camden really wanted him.

But mostly my main problem was linked to Theo. For most of the book, I just couldn’t feel that he was in love with Camden. I thought there was a massive imbalance between them because you could feel how much Camden loved Theo, but I never felt the same love from Theo. I spent a lot of the book feeling like Theo was only with Cam because it was convenient and routine (they had been best friends for over 20 years), he’s used to having him around, and he didn’t have to try and get to know someon else, he already knew Cam. And to me that never really felt like love from Theo’s side. Also Theo didn’t seem to really care about how things would affect Cam and only cared about his own feelings and it bothered me. Also, I love a good roleplay during sex and it can be really hot but I really wasn’t a fan of how all of their sexual encounters seemed to be roleplay, expecially the first ones. In a way, it was really impersonal and I didn’t like how it seemed that they had to pretend to be other people to enjoy the sex. I really couldn’t see their connection during the sex scenes because they kept portraying other people.

I also feel like the ending of the conflict at the end happened too fast, it felt a little rushed and I really would have loved to get more of that part.

Also, this is a small niggle but I really would have liked some more kink. I find that i’m not really a fan of the stories where there is kink but it’s really light, I much prefer having more kink in my stories. This book really could have benefited from more than roleplaying and using sex toys.

Overall this was quite a cute and sweet book and I realy wish I had enjoyed it more.


I received an ARC of this book in exchange of my honest opinion