Reviewed by True
TITLE: The Forever Neighbor
SERIES: Corio Heights #3
AUTHOR: Rye Cox
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 216 pages
RELEASE DATE: August 3, 2022
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What do you do when you’re in love with your childhood friend?
For as long as Will can remember, Jason has always been his safe space, his protector. Now as adults, he doesn’t know how much longer he can hide the desire he holds for his best friend. A desire he’s too afraid to convey and so is unable to make any progress on changing their relationship status. Is it finally time to let go?
There are two things Jason loves most in the world: food and Will. They’ve gone through everything together over the years and are as close as family. As he feels his best friend begin pulling away, Jason slowly discovers that his love for Will has turned into an emotion he can’t quite grasp but is determined to understand. Can he figure out his feelings before it’s too late and he loses Will forever?
The Forever Neighbor is an M/M romance with grumpy/sunshine and childhood friends-to-lovers tropes. It features obsessive lovers, healing, and finding found family once again. It is the third book of the Corio Heights series and can be read as a standalone but will be more enjoyable when read as a series.
REVIEW:
Will and Jason are friends for more than twenty years, they knew each since they were seven. They were neighbors. Will was living more at Jason’s than at his own family because of the terrible circumstances he lived in. After Jason’s mother passed away they were even more inseparable.
Will has developed deeper feelings for Jason and it’s getting more difficult to hide them. He is trying to spend less time with Jason.
Jason is hurt, Will is avoiding him and he doesn’t know why, they were always together, day and night, hermits, with just a small circle of friends. Now he’s left alone most of the time.
When he suddenly understands the reason, his view of their relationship is changing.
Very carefully they start a romantic relationship, carefully but with a lot of heat.
It’s getting all complicated when obsessive and possessive feelings are getting involved.
I wish I’d understand their traumas more, there’s just a slight reference to them.
Both men see therapists but I would have loved to know more about it and not so superficial.
I tried to understand the suggestion from the therapist, but I failed mostly, I got it but maybe the way how wasn’t to my like.
This is one of these stories where I enjoyed it in big lines, but when scrutinizing it, there were a few things for me implausible, the therapist sessions, the traumas, and even the way things were solved. This is of course my opinion and way of experience.
Looking back at the story I must conclude, that I got the big picture, two guys, together from childhood friends to lovers, being together since they were seven, obsessed to be left alone.
I just took the story as it was, but I think certain important things were underdeveloped.
The heat and sexual encounters got a lot more attention if you were wondering!
Both Jason and Will were lovable characters, they had an innocent and maybe too immature vibe. Their friends were a good addition to the story.
Overall I liked this slightly developed story, I would have loved a more final and solid end, for me, it wasn’t satisfying this way. After all, they’ve been through a lot, and they earned and deserved it.
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