Reviewed by Chris

TITLE:  Trust

SERIES:  Evan and Jeremy #2

AUTHOR:  Brigham Vaughn

PUBLISHER:  Two Peninsulas Press

LENGTH:  232 pages

RELEASE DATE:  January 28, 2016

BLURB:  

Evan Harris thinks his relationship with Jeremy Lewis is going well. But when Jeremy bolts, Evan is left nursing a broken heart. Jeremy loves Evan, but his inability to trust holds him back from facing his past head on and building the future he desperately wants. Evan’s patience is at the breaking point, and he struggles to decide if Jeremy deserves another chance.

Scarred by his own parents’ treatment of him, Jeremy doesn’t trust Evan’s mother’s motives when she reappears in Evan’s life after his father lands in jail. The ensuing disagreement about his concerns puts further pressure on their developing relationship.

Unless Jeremy can learn to trust and Evan can let go of past hurts, they’ll miss out on the relationship they’ve both been searching for.

REVIEW:  

This story picks up right after Connection ended. Evan and Jeremy have finally (finally) got enough of their shit together and soon they will be off dancing into the sunset with nary a care in the world.

What? You don’t believe me?

Yeah, that was probably a bit too much to expect.

So, if you’ve read the blurb (or have even a passing experience with sequels) you’d have guessed that book two brings with it a whole bag of problems for Evan and Jeremy. Which really shouldn’t surprise anyone since they hardly had things together in book one. Jeremy is still…well, fucked up. Evan is still unsure about his place in Jeremy’s life and in the world in general. And together they have all the attraction but no clue how to go from friends that want to jump each other’s bones to boyfriends who have a decent idea of how an adult relationship functions.

Which honestly made me a bit wary of reading this. I really really really dislike sequels where everything falls apart. It is just one of those pet peeves that isn’t ever likely to go away. I don’t like to watch things crumble after I’ve spent an entire book seeing the characters scramble their way thru all the shit that kept them apart. Knowing that the second book was going to be all about doing that all over again made me exhausted before I even turned on my kindle.

I couldn’t just leave Evan and Jeremy where they had landed though. If there is one things I hate more than watching things fall apart it is never knowing how things end. And I really needed to know how this whole story ended.

And it ended with me basically having to pry my fingers off my kindle because I kept falling asleep every time I blinked but still refused to stop reading.

I was seriously impressed how this author took one of the things I really dislike about sequels and spun a story that was engaging and fun, and even good in the parts that were not so nice to the characters. I actually ended up liking how things fell apart, because when they came back together they were whole. Individually and together. It worked where countless times before I had been left frustrated and fed up with what felt like contrived scenarios jammed into the plot to created conflict. It wasn’t like that at all, here. I was freaking impressed.

This book was really good. Maybe because it defied my expectations, but probably just because it was well written and the characters were extremely engaging. While I don’t think you should be reading this as a standalone, I will say that you should pick up both books in this series and settle in for a wonderful ride.

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