Reviewed by True
TITLE: A Totally Platonic Thing
SERIES: Santa Rafaela #2
AUTHOR: Eliot Grayson
PUBLISHER: Smoking Teacup Books
LENGTH: 267 pages
RELEASE DATE: October 28, 2021
BLURB:
Friends know all your faults and love you anyway. But what happens when you cross the line between friends and…more than friends?
Chris
My straight roommate and I are totally not dating. Sure, Lucas and I watch videos together—yes, those kinds of videos—and sometimes fall asleep in the same bed afterward. And yeah, I bring coffee to his lab every day so I can get my hug fix. But at night, I’ve been out clubbing and trying to forget that my ex-boyfriend was using me. I’m so lucky Lucas puts up with my drunk shenanigans. Until he doesn’t—and makes it impossible for me to hide what I really want. But it’s all platonic. Right?
Lucas
Chris means everything to me and I’d do anything for him. But one too many middle-of-the-night rescue missions with him falling-down drunk makes me lose my temper. Bigtime. Once he’s sober, I threaten to put him over my knee and give him what he deserves. I expect him to tell me to go to hell…but instead he blushes and squirms. He wants it. Badly. And now I don’t know what to do. It should’ve been a one-time thing. But seeing Chris that way—touching him that way—has me hooked. Because my own reaction isn’t exactly platonic either…
A Totally Platonic Thing is a steamy M/M new adult bisexual romance with two roommates who are totally, like, not dating. At all. Even though they’re basically an old married couple. And also the adult videos and the, ahem, discipline. But that doesn’t count. HEA guaranteed.
REVIEW:
They are roommates for over two years. Lucas always helps Chris out of trouble.
Lucas is the one who saves a drunken Chris, more than once, even Lucas has his limits.
Lucas is straight, Chris is gay, they fit perfectly. They cuddle, fall asleep together, and lately, they even watch porn together. Chris can’t show Lucas the one where the guy looks just like Lucas. It’s all platonic of course, just two guys.
The atmosphere changes when they get at a lot closer, still platonic of course, just two guys.
It’s a slow burn story, entertaining, at some point it got a bit too slow and it felt a bit dragging.
Not for long, thank you, soon enough it turned into a fast and emotional road.
Busy with their study, Chris getting way too drunk, on the edge of failing, having friction being close together, vagueness, miscommunication, there is quite some tension. They are not honest to themselves about their feelings, when they finally do it’s almost too late.
Two guys, best friends, opposites, getting intimate, oblivious, afraid to lose their friendship.
The tension between them was palpable, their sexual encounters are super steamy. I loved the presence of emotions. I hoped for somewhat more hurtful moments.
Sebastian and Aidan from book 1 are present throughout the story, so nice! While I loved this story, for me, Sebastian and Aidan their story was more catching.
Overall a captivatingly written narrative, with a bit of a slow pace, slightly developed, but quite entertaining.
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