GUESTREVIEW by JEN
TITLE: Bad Wrong Things: A Best Friend’s Dad MM Romance
AUTHOR: C.P. Harris
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 361 Pages
RELEASE DATE: April 14, 2022
BLURB: One promise.
One summer to see it through.
One explosive love fueled by mutual obsession.
The day Clint sees his son, Joey, off to basic training, the young man he’s devoted his life to extracts one promise from him: spend the summer doing something selfish for a change. The request seems harmless enough until Joey puts his best friend, Raven, in charge of seeing it through.
Raven would do anything for the people who took him in as a teen, and, when it comes to Clint, anything comes without limits. When encouraging Clint to explore his selfish side reveals Raven’s love for the older man, Raven is shocked to discover his feelings may not be unrequited. Not only are they returned, but all his darkest, most hidden desires have finally found their match.
Clint’s possession feeds every craving Raven’s ever known. Raven’s openness provides Clint the freedom he’s longed for to take whatever he wants, and soon boundaries are abandoned at the bedroom door. As summer’s promise bleeds into winter, and the threat of Joey’s impending return looms over their heads, Clint and Raven love faster and harder.
When Joey’s disapproval ends up being the least of their concerns, Raven and Clint go to desperate extremes to stay close because something is better than nothing. Facing an uncertain future, both men are left wondering if you can ever go too far or risk too much and still come out on the other side whole.
REVIEW:
This story is a bit of a crazy ride. It sucks you in pretty fast and then it’s pretty high speed throughout. It starts out current day but quickly takes you back to the beginning where we learn all about the why and how Raven came to be in Officer Clint and his son, Joey’s, lives. Suffice to say, it hasn’t been a very easy road for Raven, and that doesn’t ever really change for him – through no fault of his own initially, but by his own actions thereafter. As is typical, youth experiences often shape adulthood, and understanding that will help understand a lot about Raven.
The actual story takes place over many many years, so there is no insta anything really here. Raven became one of the family when Clint took him in as an early teen. He and Joey become bffs and then with some sporadic benefits added in before Joey heads off to the military.
But, Raven has always had more feelings for Clint, and once it is just the two of them, Raven makes it his mission to hold the promise he made to Joey to make sure Clint puts himself first for a change to find some happiness of his own. After some time, Clint and Raven take things further and it only skyrockets from there. The chemistry is off the charts. It is scorching, and they and their turn ons align perfectly, even though they might seem crazy or violent to outsiders. The underlying problem they have is how to deal with Joey approving.
To say things don’t go well for a while is a bit of an understatement, but I loved how it all played out, and honestly, they all needed things to go the way they did before the pieces could all be put back together, which, they do…eventually. So, don’t get too amped up about the events that take place, as they all finally get their HEA.
I loved this story. It has many elements I find interesting, from Raven and how he overcame his childhood, dealing with his mother, to Clint’s issues and even to Joey’s, although his are somewhat peripheral. I was engaged throughout and turning pages to the end. C.P. Harris has delivered another story that has a deeper level of character depth than most stories these days, and for that, ends up on my auto read list for the foreseeable future.
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