Reviewed by True
TITLE: Save the Date
SERIES: Square Mile Rogues
AUTHOR: Sophia Soames
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 424 pages
RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2026
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Peter Felton
If there was a meme for being a total cliché?
That would be me.
It wouldn’t even need a description, just a pathetic snapshot of me in my threadbare pyjamas, standing at my filthy kitchen table, staring into the wall like a loser.
Because that is exactly who I was. The middle-aged widower caught up in his very own hell of a midlife crisis. The guy who wasn’t over his dead wife. The single dad. Pathetic, Peter. Utterly pathetic.
The guy who thought… I didn’t know what I’d been thinking. Because if someone had told me that at forty-five, I’d willingly go on a reality-TV dating show?
Yeah. You get the picture. The memes were brutal. Every single one of them was bouncing around the internet like a contagious super virus. The internet was forever. And so was love.
It wasn’t who I was, this…this joke of a man I’d become. It never was, and now? Now I was standing here wondering how I would ever leave the house again.
Oliver Jacobs
When I was a kid, I thought I was invincible. Turns out…sometimes I was. Sometimes my confidence took me places, and anyway. When I fell? I got up. Made a plan, organised my options and ran with the obvious solution. I was good like that.
But I hadn’t counted on…this one plan going so very, very wrong. So terribly, awfully wrong.
Because my requests were simple and easy. Youngish, around my age. No facial hair. Nice. No kids, no baggage.
Also gay.
And then? They gifted me…Peter Fenton. Everything I hadn’t asked for. And now he is all I want.
So…should I save the date? Or just swallow down the fact that Oliver Jacobs…just made the biggest mistake of his life.
Save the Date is a standalone novel set in the Square Mile Rogues universe. Content warnings for death of a partner, violent grief and finding out that love…really matters.
REVIEW:
A story with an exceptional concept! I wanted to make this a compact review, I failed!
Here we go! Step into the world of the crazy reality TV show. Stuck with not the man of your choice. A disaster or not?
Forty-five-year-old paediatric orthodontist and widower Peter Felton, reluctantly signed up for the Save the Date reality show. Pushed by his sons Cal and Ed. He retreated from life for far too long after his wife Mary died, five years ago.
Oliver is a twenty-nine-year-old account manager, a white powder addict, with a penthouse and enough money, and enough guys around who railed him. He’s deeply unhappy.
Oliver signed up with a few requests for his future show teammate: it has to be a gay guy, around his age, with no kids and no baggage. Simple requests right? Wrong!
Peter is teamed up with Oliver, and they will share an apartment with cameras everywhere.
Oliver is shocked, he’s teamed up with an older guy, who has two kids and a lot of baggage.
You wouldn’t guess, after quite the introduction (and the setup by Kirsten, the toxic woman), but they matched perfectly. They are quite content sharing a room and bed.
All the other team members are just as mismatched as they are.
It’s quite chaotic, the course of events of the show, but entertaining af.
Peter and Oliver just hit off as if they were meant for each other, oh dang! They are, lol!!
Only, they don’t know this, yet! They are so kind and sweet with each other.
And still, there’s a world outside. Gosh, thank you lord, there is a world outside where real life is happening!
And then there’s George, the floor manager, who pops up here and there. It was so wonderful to meet him and his pov. Besides Peter and Oliver’s romance, the author wrote a secondary one into this novel. This was downright awesomeness, George and his best friend. My heart, these two . George was in love with him for ages and will finally have his hea!
I could go into many of the hundreds of details, but that’s really not necessary for this review. If you are familiar with this author, you know this will be an amazing story, with well-developed, thickly layered characters. Both men have a dose of hurt as baggage, there’s fine humour, and the most genuine feelings all over the floor. Their blooming romance was everything! I loved them deeply.
Sweet Mary is present throughout the whole story, you’re only dead when you are forgotten, and she’s not! Their sons Ed and Cal are just marvellous!
In short, this widely written story was one big winner for me!
Tea anyone?
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