Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: A Different Kind of Love
AUTHOR: Kim Breyon
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 280 pages
RELEASE DATE: August 30, 2022
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When Wes Graves returns home from a recent tour, he never expects to find his two best friends in bed together… especially since he had no idea one of them was gay. The revelation shocks him to his core. Wes is forced to address old feelings and admit new desires, all while protecting his friend’s deepest secret from their community… and his fans. Will their friendship survive the betrayal, or will this new revelation open the doors to something else? Something… different?
REVIEW:
A new to me author that captured my attention.
Wes Graces is making it in the world of music. Something that is hard to get in to and even harder to keep going. He is fresh off tour as the opening act touring with a popular band but he’s thankful to be finally home in Idaho to see his Mom for her birthday and hang with his two best friends in the world. Color him shocked, hurt and upset when he walks in on his closest childhood friend preforming sex to the man of his desires, his Mom’s boyfriend’s son and his other best friend…his very straight best friend. So he does what any wounded animal would do. He runs and licks his wounds. Travis and Judah know they have messed up royally. Wes, their best friend and object of their deepest desires, caught them in the act in Judah’s bedroom that adjoins Wes’s. They never set out to hurt Wes but one night of drinking and they found solace in each other missing Wes so much while he is out living his dream of becoming a famous musician. But how do they convince him that they not only like and desire each other but want and need him too?
I really liked and got each of these men. They had secretly pined after each other but were too afraid to take the next step in fear of losing their best friend. And I get that admiring that you are gay in Idaho wouldn’t be the easiest thing so Judah’s fear of coming out was justified. However, he lives with Wes, who is an openly gay music star, and knows how accepting his dad and Wes’s mom are. But Wes had been brave enough, when he was younger, to approach Judah and he was shot down so I can only imagine his shock that Travis and Judah wound up together.
I’m just going to say that this book is layered with layer after layer of angst and self-doubt. First you have Judah being so deep in the closet that he won’t even crack the door to even his dad. Then you have the ten years of mental torture of Travis (and his sister) by his alcoholic mom that messes with his head. Last but definitely not least you have Wes, who has constantly encouraged Judah that they will all be awesome together forever and then gets cold feet when he is fearful of them being exposed to the world. Yes, navigating a polyamorous relationship takes lots of work and is outside the norms of traditional relationships. Add in being famous and paparazzi and it’s even more judged. But you all know and love each other fully and completely. And you totally and unconditionally trust each other. So the constant internal questioning got to be a bit much. Just as soon as Judah’s closeted situation was resolved then you had Wes and his Mom’s situation. As soon as that was resolved you had Travis’s mom’s problems. As soon as that was resolved then you had Wes’s fans and paparazzi issues. I would think “okay now they can work on just being them” without all the angst and it kept fooling in.
I did really enjoy this book. Triad books are one of my favorite genre’s and these three guys did it for me. They were each uniquely different enough to make them fit together and make their relationship whole and work. It just wouldn’t work without each of them and the dynamic they brought. I just could have used a bit less constant angst being tossed in.
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