Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Kiss Me Again
AUTHOR: Garrett Leigh
PUBLISHER: Fox Love Press
LENGTH: 227 pages
RELEASE DATE: June 7, 2019
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Tree surgeon Aidan Drummond is content with his own company. He works alone, and lives alone, and it doesn’t occur to him to want anything else until a life-changing accident lands him in hospital. Then a glimpse of the beautiful boy in the opposite bed changes everything.
Ludo Giordano is trapped on the ward with a bunch of old men. His mind plays tricks on him, keeping him awake. Then late one night, a new face brings a welcome distraction. Their unlikely friendship is addictive. And, like most things in Ludo’s life, temporary.
Back in the real world, Aidan’s monochrome existence is no longer enough. He craves the colour Ludo brought him, and when a chance meeting brings them back together, before long, they’re inseparable again.
But bliss comes with complications. Aidan is on the road to recovery, but Ludo has been unwell his entire life, and that’s not going to change. Aidan can kiss him as much as he likes, but if he can’t help Ludo when he needs him most, they don’t stand a chance.
REVIEW:
I kind of had a hard time with this book. Not because it’s bad. Far from it. And I can tell this was researched because the author nailed the symptoms. Either that or she knows the symptoms from others. My ex has the same thing Ludo has. I’m not giving it away. It’s for you to read. But it is a condition that is very hard to deal with sometimes. With Ludo, he tried though. He knew if he was off and sometimes things didn’t work out so well. But he kept trying. Kept listening and trying new things if old ones weren’t working. And when Aidan came along, he knew he needed to try harder, if for no other reason, he didn’t want Aidan seeing him ‘off’.
Ludo and Aidan met in the hospital. Ludo recovering from having surgery on his wrist. Aidan recovering from an accident while fixing a tree and a dumbass drunk driver. Thankfully, both managed to survive, and after a tense first meeting, starting becoming friends. Which felt odd for both of them. But any time away from each other felt wrong and both had a hard time with it. But for Aidan, he knew he needed to go at Ludo’s pace. Ludo just had to do things in his time and his way. What started as a tentative friendship, started blossoming into more. They saw the good, bad and ugly with each other, and it didn’t matter. They felt with each other, a way they could with no one else. But both are nervous and scared. And both have admitted it. They just have to learn to rely on each other and keep going, even when it’s scary as hell.
I love Aidan in this book, because somehow he knew right off the bat, in his drug induced haze at the hospital, that he had to take a bit of care with Ludo. And that didn’t change when they started seeing each other. He didn’t care what Ludo had or what he was dealing with, in the sense it made no difference to how he saw Ludo. He cared that it may affect Ludo’s health and well being. But that’s different. He just knew he cared for Ludo and that for him was a huge deal. He didn’t like anybody. But I loved his patience. And how he cared for the man. He called him on his bullshit too. Didn’t let him put himself down.
And Ludo was just as good for Aidan. He cared for Aidan just as much as Aidan cared for him. He fed him, made sure he was feeling ok. Even on his off days, his thoughts were still of Aidan. The one who captured him the moment he laid eyes on him. He called Aidan out on his bullshit too. And made sure things were taken care of for Aidan as he was recovering.
It’s not an easy journey. Life never is. And when battling things these two are, it’s even harder. There are good days and days that you just wish someone would just shoot you. It’s a battle every day. Even the good ones. But it’s worthwhile when you find someone that cares about you even when those days are so so bad. And happily, this one turned out for the good.
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