Guestreview by Jen
TITLE: This Will Hurt I
AUTHOR: Cara Dee
PUBLISHER: Cara Dee
RELEASE DATE: May 23, 2023
BLURB:
Maybe the heart needs to break before one can put together the pieces correctly. This is Jake and Roe’s story.
I used to think leaving the Marines and moving to LA was the defining moment that changed my life. I was gonna become a documentary filmmaker and see the world through my camera. Then I met Roe Finlay.
Never in a million years could I have imagined…well, everything we went through. I sucked at expressing how I felt—which was emotionally stunted most of the time—but Roe seemed to get me. I became…dependent. Attached. Not in a sexual way or anything—I wasn’t gay. Far from it. Or bisexual like Roe, for that matter. No, this was different. I just wanted to be close to him. He made me laugh like no other. We were a fantastic team. We lived together. Worked together. He was my best friend.
He was everything. He was my defining moment.
Until he decided to commit to his f—to his girlfriend.
REVIEW:
This unlikely friendship grew and blossomed into something special and basically took on a life of its own. Jake and Roe began a blogging business together where they travel and blog and are roommates and best friends as well.
Much of this book is showing the growing friendship/relationship between the guys and it takes a good part of the book for the possibility of more even being mentioned. It was interesting and helped to connect with the characters, but it got a bit slow in parts where I found myself skimming a bit. They spend a lot of time discussing their business and adventures which I enjoyed, but I was longing for more about their potential relationship. However, the story of these guys and their unique lives captured me, and by the end, I was fully invested and wanted to know how they could possibly end up together.
Suffice to say that it doesn’t happen in this installment. There are numerous issues at play and while I wouldn’t necessarily say this ended on a cliffhanger, I was still left needing to jump right into the next one. I highly suggest you have that lined up, because this book is basically Jake’s view, the next one is Roe’s, and you will definitely want to have some speed built up to get over the humps that now seem to be in place before they can find their happiness in each other.
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