4.5 stars
"Kissing him was like seeing the ocean for the first time. Meeting something so big it made you feel small. It was like finally understanding the answer to an impossible question."
SHIT, this book was so cute. This is a M/M romance that follows two best friends, Trent and Drew as they start to unexpectedly fall for each other. I've been reading a lot of M/M romance lately, and I'm still a sucker for the friends to lovers trope, and this one was done so well and so realistically. I can honestly say this is one of my favorite M/M romances ever. I just adore Drew and Trent so much and I feel so giddy and happy even thinking about them together.

Drew is an indie racer and he races cars for a living, and Trent is in college and he's the president of his Frat house, and a football player. Apparently this is a spin off series of a previous series from this author where Drew and Trent are minor characters (I didn't realize this until after I read the book) and now I'm kind of curious to hear more about their back story. But I loved this story even without knowing their previous history. The prologue to this book was one of the cutest things I've ever read and I kind of instantly knew this was going to be a new favorite of mine. I adore how passionate Drew is about racing and he's so confident about it. I'm not really a "car person" but I loved reading about his car and all the racing scenes, they were all written so well and the suspense was real.

Drew and Trent's romance is such a slow burn romance, in a good way. It takes them a long time to realize they have feelings for each other, and an even longer time to act on those feelings, but I appreciated that as a reader. These two are best friends and have never considered themselves to be gay so of course it's going to take them a long time to admit these feelings for each other. I just appreciated how realistic it was.

They didn't even have their first kiss until after the halfway point of the book and the tension between them was so intense! And there was no actual sex at all in this entire book, only oral mainly. They never even got that far in their story yet. I wasn't expecting it to end on a cliffhanger, so I was kind of bummed about that, but at the same time I'm so excited to read the next book. I was so sad to see Trent get jumped by his frat brothers at the end. ): That's so fucking sad. But I also kind of hate that Trent is going to try and let that come in between them. To me it just felt like the author didn't exactly know how to end it and just decided that would be the best place to end it, and I didn't care for it, which is why I ended up taking off half a star on my rating. It felt so out of character for Trent to let other people affect his relationship. If anything I would expect it more from Drew but not Trent, idk.

I just loved this book so much more than I was expecting to and I can't wait to read the next book in this series. I adore Drew and Trent together so much, and I will definitely have to check out more books by this author! I love her sense of humor and the sexual tension she creates between her characters is so great. It's a great balance of humor, heart and romance all wrapped into one book with two incredibly charming and amazing male leads. I loved this book.