Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Best Friends
AUTHOR: Felicity Snow
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 61 pages
RELEASE DATE: August 25, 2023
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Best Friends was previously part of the MM Class of 22/23 Prolific Works Giveaway. It is a 16k word standalone, coming of age mm novella with bi-awakening, all the pining and a sweet HEA.
Carter
Theater is my passion, but I couldn’t do it without Zach. We’ve been best friends for as long as I can remember. And from the moment I stepped on stage in first grade he’s been by my side, cheering me on, encouraging me, helping me rehearse my lines, and telling me what an amazing actor I am. The best part of any performance is seeing his smiling face in the front row, which is why it hurts so much when he tells me he can’t come to my final performance senior year. What the hell?
Zach
Carter is my everything. My ride or die. He always has been. I’d do anything for him. And supporting his dreams is everything to me. So why do I find myself feeling sick to my stomach when I see him on stage kissing someone else? I don’t understand what’s happening. It doesn’t make sense. I’m not into guys. And I’m certainly not into my best friend. Right?
This book is not intended for anyone under the age of 18 due to sexual content and language
REVIEW:
Another new-to-me author.
Most think Carter had it all. Good looking, parents that are supportive of his coming out and a best friend since he was a youngster. Theatre is in his blood and he’s super good at it. He can sing and dance and has the support of his BFF Zach in the front row of every performance to support and cheer him on. But there is just one thing he really wants in his life he will never have…the true love of his straight best friend. Or is he really that straight after all?
This one just didn’t catch my feels as much as I would have liked. It’s a super quick read novella and it did build up the boys and their friendship quite well. It just wasted too much time on their unrequited, pining and not the relationship that finally happened.
Carter has mooned over his best friend since he announced he was gay at 12 and admitted he had feelings for another boy but that boy is straight and unavailable. Of course those feelings are for Zach. And Zach has had feelings for Carter since he raged internally witnessing Carter’s first kiss on stage in a play when he was 15. But these two let another 3 years just go by each internally hurting that they can’t have the one they have fallen in love with. The part that got to me was that everyone literally knew that they were pining for each other but couldn’t see it for the hearts in their eyes must have blocked it. It just didn’t need to go on for so long in such a short story. Once they finally kissed and made out it was fine. I would have liked a bit more of that story. We’re there tons of “duhs and finally” from everyone and being thankful these two finally got on the same page I’m sure if that would have been shown. I would have liked to see them complete their senior year together as a couple and how that went. The chance to go to Prom together as a couple and the joys of graduation. Them planning their future together. That’s what I needed.
The epilogue was a nice way to give us some much needed insight as to how and if these two made it together past high school. This was a short, angsty book on high school love and all that entails when it’s unrequited.
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