Reviewed by Tammy

TITLE:  Just What the Truth Is   

SERIES:  Home #3

AUTHOR:  Cardeno C.     

PUBLISHER:  The Romance Authors, LLC                  

LENGTH: 248 pages

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People-pleaser Ben Forman has been in the closet so long he has almost convinced himself he is straight, but his denial train gets derailed when hotshot lawyer Micah Trains walks into his life. Micah is brilliant, funny, driven…and he assumes Ben is gay and starts dating him. Finding himself truly happy for the first time, Ben doesn’t have the willpower to resist Micah’s affection. When his relationship with Micah heats up, Ben realizes has a problem: his parents won’t tolerate a gay son and self-confident Micah isn’t the type to hide. If Ben wants to maintain his hold on his happiness, he’ll have to decide what’s important and own up to the truth of who he is. The trouble is figuring out just what that truth is.

REVIEW:

Just What the Truth Is, is the third book in Cardeno C’s Home series. This book is about Ben Forman and Micah Trains. Ben is so far in the closet I’m sure he’s trying to find Narnia! As far in as Ben is, Micah is out, he doesn’t hide who he is, his parents accept him, his bosses, who also happen to be Ben’s, accept him and don’t care that he is gay.

Ben has spent his entire life trying to please his parents because his brother Noah (in Home Again) certainly didn’t. Ben picked up on the fact that his parents were incredibly intolerant of gays and when Noah came out as a teenager he saw how he was rejected and snubbed by them so he determined he would be the ‘good’ son. He lost his best friend Clark, when he revealed he was in love with Ben’s brother Noah because he couldn’t accept he was gay. He even accused Clark of corrupting Noah and tried everything to split them up. His toothpaste lasts longer than any of his girlfriends!

When Micah starts work at the same law firm as Ben, Ben notices and develops a huge crush on him, one that he denies with his last breath until Micah assumes he is out just like his brother and asks him out on a date. Everything is up and down as Ben first tries to keep his relationship with Micah a secret until Micah wants to meet Ben’s parents, Ben proceeds to have a meltdown and breaks it off. When he comes out to his parents they immediately blamed Noah and then refused to listen or understand their children, they wiped them out of their lives. Lucky for Ben when he explained what was going on with him just coming out and how he hid that part of himself for so long Micah understood completely.

It’s incredibly sad what parents do to their children with their phobias, bigotry and attitudes be they good or bad. It almost destroyed Ben trying to be everything to everyone. When he admitted it to himself and owned it that he was gay, that was when his life started to come together and he could live and breathe. I would recommend this book to all m/m romance story lovers.

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