REVIEWED BY CINDY
TITLE: Just What the Truth Is
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AUTHOR: Cardeno C.
NARRATOR: Alexander Collins
PUBLISHER: The Romance Authors
LENGTH: 6 Hours and 19 Minutes, 200 Pages
Blurb:
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:
I wasn’t sure I liked Ben very much when I first started this story but he grew on me as it went.
Ben is a man who spends so much time trying to convince himself that he’s not gay after watching what his brother went through when he came out. He loves his parents and doesn’t want to lose them so he pretends to be the son they want all the time.
Micah is a man who doesn’t hide who he is or what he wants and he wants Ben.
You can’t help feeling a little like Ben must have, being swept off his feet by a man who has no idea that Ben isn’t out. It’s fast and a little dizzying but it’s one of the things I liked about it. These two men ride a whirlwind and of romance and sex that take their breath away and ours along with it.
Of course there’s the inevitable decision that Ben will have to make, whether he’s going to be the perfect son or a happy man and he’s got the newly found support of his brother Noah, who we met in book 2 of this series. Noah is a passionate man who makes no bones about his parents behavior towards him and how they treat his brother. I loved seeing them get closer throughout the story.
I loved when we got to see Ben and Micah go for brunch with their group of friends and the different perspective it gave Ben instead of the homophobic view of his parents.
That’s the only little wrinkle in the book for me. I don’t know what the odds are of brother’s being gay, but it just struck me as a little off.
Alexander Collins was a great narrator to voice this story. He voice is easy to listen to and helped me get lost in the story, although I did find the music a little annoying.
A great story with characters that I genuinely grew to love and with the kind of Happily-Ever-After I love. The sex is very hot but the relationship between the two men is even better.
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