Reviewed by Tammy
TITLE: Where He Ends and I Begin
SERIES: Home #6
AUTHOR: Cardeno C.
PUBLISHER: The Romance Authors, LLC
LENGTH: 289 pages
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Aggressive, physical, and brave, Jake Owens is a small town football hero turned big city cop who passes his time with meaningless encounters believing he can’t have who he really wants: Nate Richardson, his best friend since before forever. Thoughtful, quiet, and kind, Nate is a brilliant doctor who has always known who he is and has never been able to shake his crush on loyal, courageous, straight Jake.
After a passionate night together, Nate realizes Jake isn’t as straight as he assumed, but he worries that what they shared was a fluke, a result of too much closeness for too long. For Jake, the question isn’t how they ended up in bed together because he has always known that Nate holds his heart, it’s how he’ll convince Nate that he wants and needs to stay there.
REVIEW:
Where He Ends and I Begin is about Jake Owens, a college football player now a NYC police detective, and Nate Richardson a brilliant research doctor. Jake and Nate were born within minutes of each other as their mothers were best friends who did everything together. They were raised together as one big family, they were two halves of the same whole and you never saw one without the other.
Both Jake and Nate make sacrifices for the other while they were growing up, Nate refused early admission to college because he wouldn’t leave Jake to face the last years of high school alone as he knew he wouldn’t make it. Jake turned down the football draft because he wouldn’t leave Nate in New York with two more years of medical school left. About the only thing they didn’t share was how they felt about each other, they knew they loved each other but they didn’t know they were in love with each other. Jake was overjoyed when Nate came out as gay because he thought they could be together the way he wanted but Nate never thought gorgeous, popular Jake could possibly return his feelings. This misunderstanding is heartbreaking because while Jake is deeply in love with Nate even at a young age he has a high sex drive and decides if he can’t have the one he wants he’ll go to women for release except that behaviour just reinforces to Nate how straight Jake is.
Luckily for both of them they get a chance to explore their feelings for each other whilst on holiday, Nate realises Jake isn’t as straight as he thought and Jake realises Nate really is into him! It takes time for Nate to realise that Jake isn’t going to go back to women and Jake slowly comes to understand that even though he hasn’t had a gay relationship he is more than enough emotionally and physically for Nate.
All in all the one thing that stands out for me about this story is that you have to communicate with people. Unless they have ESP they’re not going to know how you feel unless you talk to them, Jake and Nate wasted 28 years through miscommunication. I would definitely recommend this book to not only m/m romance readers but to all romance story readers!
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