Reviewed by Stephen K.
TITLE: His Best Friend’s Brother Boxed Set
SERIES: (His Best Friend’s Brother 1-5)
AUTHOR: R. Cayden
PUBLISHER: Independent
LENGTH: 767 pages
RELEASE DATE: June 28th , 2021
BLURB:
His Best Friend’s Brother, the Complete Series!
This box set includes all five previously published books in the M/M romance series His Best Friend’s Brother. The steamy, low-angst series features sweetheart men, temptation that sizzles, opposites-attract sparks, and satisfying HEAs.
Falling for the Geek: My high school crush, my older brother’s best friend. Now Cass is back to crash my summer alone.
Forbidden Friend: At work, at home—my best friend’s twin brother is everywhere I look, tempting me.
The Geek Next Door: He’s always been there, whether I realized it or not…
Shared Secrets: My brother’s two best friends, and an HEA worth fighting for.
Falling for Trouble: Steamy trouble with my best friend’s long-lost brother.
REVIEW:
I recently listened to a book where one of the characters liked romance books because they pretty much always guaranteed a happy ending. This box of books has plenty of those and very little angst to boot. The stories were each released as single book over the course of a year. All five stories feature characters that appear in some of the other stories.
Though I don’t really understand the sexual tastes of some of the characters, all the stories are low angst, enjoyable reads. I really enjoyed spending time with these characters, and loved the way that characters I was already familiar with kept popping up. Given how many of the filial characters end up married, (and how many previously straight identified men end up with husbands) I did wonder whether the novel might not better have been set in Philadelphia (the city of brotherly love) rather than in Pittsburgh.
The level of on-page sex varies a bit from book to book, but by the time you’ve finished the pentatych you’ll have pretty much covered the gamut; from simple voyeurism, to self-pleasure to triads, and beyond. And while there is no actual incest implied or depicted, you might be advised to spread these out over a period of time. Reading them back to back did give them a bit of an incestuous feel. Given that the entire boxed set weighs in at over 750 pages, and each book features an ending without cliff-hangers, that shouldn’t be a problem.
Ready for some taboo breaking naughtiness? Then check out the fellas in these tales.
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