Reviewed by Mal
TITLE: Maybe
SERIES: Mis-shapes #1
AUTHOR: Fearne Hill
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 295 Pages
RELEASE DATE: Aug 19, 2025
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Learn to fly. Fly away.
Isaac: After one quarrel too many with our wealthy father, my eighteen-year-old brother, Ezra Fitz-Henry, does exactly that. He flies away, leaving me behind to play the part of the perfect and dutiful son. When our cold, heartless father dies a decade later, Ezra strolls back into my life—as difficult and secretive as he is beautiful. I’m not prepared. You’re not supposed to want the one you can’t have.
Ezra: I only go back for the money. I have a three-point plan: take what’s mine, use it to escape my lousy flat, and never have anything to do with the Fitz-Henrys ever again. But that’s before I see Isaac, with his solemn frowns and disapproving lips—the best of things and the worst of things. My friend. My enemy. My sinful fantasy.
My younger brother.
Maybe is a standalone M/M romance featuring a relationship between adopted brothers.
REVIEW:
I don’t know why I was expecting something light this time around from an author who is my favourite go to when I want something that always digs deep below the surface. I was pleasantly and ecstatically disappointed. This story so sublime. Slowly peeling away these wondrous layers of the past, the developed coping mechanisms, the ennui and quiet devastation to reveal bright sparks of humour and joy and this beautiful slow burn of unbrotherly love.
What these men go through in their formative years is truly appalling and a trauma they both struggle to overcome and while on the surface it feels like Isaac has more to pull from it’s the resilience and sheer stubbornness of Ezra that he leans on. Ezra’s circumstances feel bleak but he has a son who is a shining light and Isaac feels bleak on the inside until he reconnects with Ezra.
Their relationship development doesn’t follow a norm at all and yet it’s quite perfect for the mega Hurdle of being adopted brothers they are trying to overcome. Sometimes I couldn’t understand where Ezra’s single mindedness came from but I could see Isaac’s struggle.
I think being asthmatic Jonty’s story and childlike resilience touched me the most
This is a very different book than I’ve read from Fearne hill but no less engaging and impact full- highly recommend
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