Reviewed by Taylor

TITLE: When Adam Kissed Me
SERIES: Evergreen #2
AUTHOR: Chris Scully
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 120 pages
BLURB: Sequel to Inseparable

Nine and a half weeks ago, Joe Massone got the surprise of his life when his straight best friend and secret crush, Adam, kissed him. At the time, Adam was recovering from an accident that left him with temporary amnesia and broken ribs, so Joe isn’t sure if he should take it seriously. Is Adam really gay? Or was the blow to his head to blame? Having secretly loved Adam since they were teenagers, Joe doesn’t want to get his hopes up and have his heart broken.

Despite that first kiss, Joe and Adam are still in limbo—now more than friends, but not quite lovers. Adam’s injuries have meant they can’t take their relationship to the next level, and for Joe, not much has changed from when they were just best friends and roommates. He starts to think neither of them is ready to take that final step.

Patience stretched to the limit, Adam makes plans to break the stalemate. But when Joe sabotages things by inviting their friends along, Adam is left to wonder if their new relationship is over before it’s even started. Before he gives up, though, he’s determined to prove to Joe he wants more than just a kiss.

REVIEW:              

This is the sequel to Inseparable, where after Adam was injured by a car and suffered amnesia, he finally reveals to Joe that he cares for him and wants a relationship.  Friends for years and roommates, they are just starting out and things are shaky and new, and When Adam Kissed Me starts 9 and a half weeks after the end of Inseparable, and the reader this time gets their story from Joe’s point of view.

This book gave me all the oooey gooey feels.  What struck me most about this book and the previous book is that Adam and Joe just feel like normal dudes…awkward and geeky, but normal.  They aren’t some smooth, practiced flirters, they don’t know how to do every sexual move like their nicknames should be “Gods of Sex”, they don’t look like models, and I can appreciate that.

This focused mostly on one night.  A night where the reader sees there is a pattern of Joe avoiding spending alone time with Adam, partially because Adam is still healing from his injuries and Joe wants to touch him and be intimate with him and also because he’s convinced himself that Adam will change his mind about their relationship and want to revert back to being friends.  Meanwhile, Joe doesn’t understand why Adam is avoiding him and won’t move past kissing.

This is pretty short, and while GoodReads has it as 100+ pages, when I converted it to PDF format, it only came out to 55 pages, so I’m not sure.  Anyways, this is easy and the guys do a bit of sweet flirting, a little bit of jealousy over a pizza boy and a coffee barista, and then some adorable smexin with some mutual blowjobs.

What made this for me, though, were the flashbacks.  I’m not normally a huge fan of flashbacks, but Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, SO. CUTE.  Ohh mahhh gahhh, the story behind the rose sheets and we finally get to see that moment that led up to Adam’s accident.  Just all of it.

Joe’s Italian family and their shared friends were nice, too.  In this just enough, funny and understanding.  I really need Peter’s story as well.  I’m not 100% sure if he’s bi or gay, but I definitely got that vibe, so I’m hoping we see a future story with him.

So this was a very nice follow-up to Adam and Joe and the reader finally sees them connecting on a more intimate level and moving their relationship forward.  There was even mentioning of possible future kids!  I heart these two men so much, and I hope we get more from them.

Taylor rates it –

BUY LINKS:  Dreamspinner Press

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