Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Friend Ship
SERIES: Boys Love (Book 4)
AUTHOR: Rebecca James
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 760 KB
RELEASE DATE: July 31, 2025
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Friend Ship is a new adult novel that takes place in Thailand. It is book four in a series but can be read as a stand alone.
Can two best friends play lovers for the camera?
The only reason Mee Noi agrees to help Sud with his video exam for theater arts is because Sud insists Mee Noi is the only guy he can convincingly do a love scene with. Neither of them expect the project to turn into an offer to play a couple in a boys’ love series, but that’s exactly what happens. Since it’s Sud’s big chance to make his dream of beng an actor a reality, Mee Noi is determined to make it work. But although acting is surprisingly fun, it’s also stressful and exhausting, especially when you don’t know what you’re doing, and soon it begins to take both a physical and a psychological toll on Mee Noi as painful memories from the past begin to surface.
When Sud’s video project wins him and Mee Noi an audition for a bl series, it’s a dream come true. But he’s pretty sure it’s more of a nightmare for his introverted friend, who only got into this to help Sud out. Yet Mee Noi accepts the part when it’s offered, and the gesture adds to the budding feelings Sud’s starting to have for his best friend. When Mee Noi has a frightening panic attack at work, Sud tells himself that he must bury those feelings. Mee Noi hasn’t had an easy life; the last thing Sud wants to do is put more pressure on him.
The worst irony would be for them to play friends to lovers in the series only to have their real friendship end because of it.
REVIEW:
The finale in this series is based around a whole new set of BL stars.
Mee Noi can’t believe that his absolutely best friend Sud wants him to star opposite Sud in his class video. A video based on those Thai Boy Love television series and novels. A video that has the potential to finally catapult Sud’s dreams of becoming a star like his father. The same father that took the very young Mee Noi into their home and made him family years ago. When his miserable excuse for egg donors abandoned him. So Mee Noi sucks it up and agrees to play opposite him. But when that class video becomes an offer for both men to be cast as the second couple in the brand-new Rainbow TV series. A series that is definitely NSFW or children to view. 😳 But how can Noi say no to Sud when he knows this is Sud’s big, and probably only, break?
I actually think that this was the best of the series in my opinion. It wasn’t dwelling on how the studio’s basically controlled and took advantage of their young male actors. This book focused on how a family saw a neglected child in need and brought them in as their own. A family that knew and practiced healthy parenting. A family that didn’t differentiate between blood and found family. A family that loved unconditionally. And a family that protected each other.
I do not feel that you need to read the previous books in this series in order to enjoy this book.
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