Reviewed by Tammy
TITLE: The One Who Saves Me 
SERIES: Home #5
AUTHOR: Cardeno C.
PUBLISHER: The Romance Authors, LLC
LENGTH: 212 pages
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At fourteen, Andrew Thompson and Caleb Lakes become best friends. As the years pass, they stand by each other through family trauma, school, and the start of their careers. They share their first sexual experiences, learning and experimenting, and they talk each other through countless dates and breakups.
Decades of trust and loyalty build a deep and abiding friendship, one that surpasses any relationship in their lives. But when the parameters of their unique friendship change, neither man knows how to break out of their established roles to build something new. After all, boyfriends come and go, but best friends are forever.
REVIEW:
The One Who Saves Me is about the lifelong loyalty, friendship and love between Andrew Thompson and Caleb Lakes. They meet for the second time when they’re 14 during a joint family vacation. That week they spend getting to know each other and forming a bond that will only get stronger throughout the years.
Caleb very quickly becomes Andrew’s rock, he’s there for Andrew through everything, their coming out when they’re 16, their first everything is together, his parents’ divorce, even his parents remarrying! Because they don’t live in the same town they support each other with constant phone calls and they see each other on their family vacations for one week, once a year.
Caleb is always there when Andrew’s latest boyfriend cheats on him, he talks him through his heartache at never being able to find his permanent person just the way Andrew is always there when Caleb needs a shoulder or a doctor! While Andrew goes from man to man Caleb has decided there isn’t anyone permanent out there for him who won’t drive him crazy so he becomes a serial dater.
Everything comes to a head after Andrews last boyfriend dies of AIDS related Pneumonia. Even though Caleb moves to live with him, it takes Caleb two years to get through to Andrew it wasn’t his fault that he couldn’t save him.
This is a classic case of not seeing the forest for the trees. Both Andrew and Caleb love each other, are best friends, would go to the ends of the earth for each other but it takes ten years for them to realise they are ‘in love’ with each other! I would recommend this book to all m/m romance lovers.
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