Duo review by Becca & Annika
TITLE: Someday, Someday
AUTHOR: Emma Scott
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
RELEASE DATE: November 24, 2019
LENGTH: 411 pages
BLURB:
How long would you wait for love?
Max Kaufman was kicked out of his home as a teen and his life has been an uphill battle ever since. From addiction and living on the streets, to recovery and putting himself through nursing school, he’s spent the last ten years rebuilding his shattered sense of self. Now he’s taken a job as a private caretaker to Edward Marsh III, the president and CEO of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Max soon learns Marsh’s multi-billion-dollar empire is a gold and diamond-encrusted web of secrets and lies.
The longer Max works and lives with the Marsh family, the tighter the secrets tangle around him. And his heart—that he’s worked so hard to protect—falls straight into the hands of the distant, cold, and beautiful son of a dynasty…
Silas Marsh is set to inherit the family fortune, but his father is determined his heir be the “perfect” son. Before Silas can take over the company and end its shady business practices, he must prove himself worthy…and deny his true nature.
Silas must choose: stand up to his father by being true to himself and his undeniable feelings for Max. Or pretend to be someone he is not in order to inherit everything. Even if it means sacrificing a chance at happiness and real love.
BECCA’S REVIEW:
Shew. I’m in mega book hangover. WOW. When I was asked to read this, I decided not to read the blurb or anything. I really felt like I needed to go in blind. And I’m glad I did. This book for me is unbelievable. And if it doesn’t hit you in the gut, then you have no heart or something. I will warn you now, I have seen no warning for triggers anywhere and I know a few of you out there have some. This book deals heavily with PTSD from conversion therapy. I’m not trying to give anything away, but it’s not a pretty picture. And I’m actually glad the author showed how it can really be for kids who are homeless for being gay or made to go to conversion therapy for being gay. It’s bad enough as adults, the sheer hell LGBT people go through, for heaven forbid, being different. But for children, it’s unspeakable. More people need to be speaking up and speaking out. We may not be able to change the world in a day but we can change the piece of the world we live in maybe. Anyway, I don’t want to give away the story, but those triggers are bad in this book and I don’t want it bad for someone else. The author pulls no punches with this story. It’s cut and dried with how things really can be in this world.
When I first start reading Max’s story as he is describing it in the first chapter, I started bawling and I don’t think I stopped much through the whole book. Kicked out as a teen for being caught with a boy, not even really doing anything, he was homeless. He got hooked on drugs and started prostituting to help “pay rent” in the condemned building where he lived. Until an ex cop found him and helped put him on his feet. And in honor of that man and for himself, he decided to make the most of his life. He went through school, got a good job and was on his way. But the move to Seattle to try to make amends is wearing him down in more ways than one. And it may be time for a change. Little did he know how much his life was about to change. Starting with a man who named himself “Scott” at an NA meeting. Scott turned out to be Silas, his new boss’s son. And the situation there was not a pretty one. Silas’s dad was homophobic and was cruel to his two sons, in ways you wouldn’t believe. When Silas had finally starting seeing things that were wrong, he was being forced to do things and fought at every turn. Until his brother made a stand and made him stand as well. And now it was time to set things right. No matter how it turned out, he had to make everything in his life right. He just hoped it wasn’t too late with Max.
This story is going to take you on one hell of an emotional ride. Between what Max and Silas went through alone is bad enough. But there’s another character in this story that just grabbed my heart and wouldn’t let go. And that was Silas’s brother, Eddie. Who was smart as a whip, with a sharp wit and a wicked sense of humor. But because he has Asperger’s, he wasn’t a perfect son and was browbeaten often by their father. My heart broke just everywhere for these three men. Three men who were doing their damnedest to fight as hard as they could, in the only ways they knew how. It wasn’t always the right way, but sometimes when things build up too much pressure, there’s no where to go but full explosion. And it did. But one thing in this book that you have to remember, is the message of hope. Of not giving up. Not giving in. Fighting for all your worth to be who you are meant to be. Even if that means you lose some things. Some times you have to cut toxicity out of your life in order to move on. And all of these guys had to learn to do that. They had to fight for themselves.
Not everyone may agree with how I look at this book. It’s my opinion and how I think of it. I really do hope when you or if you read this though, you see the messages it brings. Be a voice. Be a help. Even if it’s only to lend a ear. This is one book that will be in my heart for a long time.
BECCA’S RATING: 
ANNIKA’S REVIEW:
I had some reservations picking up this book, a couple of things in the blurb piqued my interest as well as sent a few warning flags. I was torn, but in the end I decided to give it a try and see where it might lead.
So from reading the blurb Max really spoke to me – I wanted to know his story. I could tell he was a fighter, a survivor and those are the kinds of characters I can’t get enough of. However there was also a huge red flag for me; #billionaire. I mean these hashtags are used to describe the books, the main features. And to me that tag says that being born into wealth and privilege is much more important, and of an accomplishment than Max having survived everything he had. However, those are my own personal issues and fears and I didn’t know if they were even going to be an issue with this book. So I had some mixed feelings going into this story.
I fell for Max in that first chapter, hard. I felt for him, ached with him and what he’d gone through. I was invested in him early on, wanted him to find his happiness. It took much longer for me to warm to Silas. It didn’t help matters that the first few chapters of the book were filled to the brim with inner monologues and repetitions. It took forever for something to happen. Thankfully that only lasted in the beginning of the book, and the rest had a much better flow and the pages started to fly by.
Anyway, both Max and Silas have their issues, both recovering addicts and survivors of past traumas; homelessness, prostitution and conversion therapy to name a few. And where Max was warm and caring and went out of his way to help others, Silas was cold and seemingly uncaring. The way he treated people, like they were beneath him and he just couldn’t care less about anything or anyone really rubbed me the wrong way. He got better as the book came along though, especially once we got to know him better and all of his trials.
Another character that I absolutely adored was Silas’ brother Edward. I loved his Victorian speech and mannerism. I was utterly charmed. He made me smile a lot, and he might just have me pick up my first Dickens. I loved how both Silas and Max genuinely loved Edward and all of his quirkiness.
So this might seem counter intuitive but this book had too much going on, at the same time it felt like it wasn’t really going anywhere. Strange combo, but also true. There were many large plots in this book, some mentioned above, but there was also the homophobic fathers, Big Pharma and the growing drug epidemic, a little blackmail and more than a few schemes. While they all were interesting, I felt like having all of them in the same book was too big. There wasn’t enough time to fully explore them and give them the attention they deserved. In the end some of it felt rushed or unfinished.
Like I stated in the beginning, I love reading about survivors, and in this book we have two of them. Someday, Someday touches on many important subjects, but through it all there are a few things that keep coming up; second chances, starting over and fighting for love. It’s a story many will love and enjoy.
ANNIKA’S RATING: 
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