Fantaatic!

This was a very interesting read and pulled at my emotions from multiple directions.

On one hand you feel for Dawson, who has gone through Hell and back and suffered through things that no person should ever have to endure. Then his ‘husband’ suffers an accident and wakes up a completely different person and he thinks he’s falling in love with the same person. What an absolute mind game. Stepping outside the morality of this issue in real life here, the emotional strength this signifies from Dawson to me is immense.

On the other side is Cal who we know is not that slimeball Caledon yet has to jump through the hurdles because he’s wearing his meat suit. And he does eventually win everyone over. But the entire time I was screaming in my head ‘it wasn’t you!’ Or ‘it wasn’t him!’ When the truth is finally revealed it’s no wonder Dawson takes it badly, that’s hard to explain at family reunions.

This is an extremely fascinating paranormal (lite?) take on soulmates and start to this series. I appreciated (however frustrating it became) that the author took everything as slowly as it was, because not only were these two people basically strangers, but again Dawson thought he was falling in love with his physically and sexually abusive husband and had to come to terms with that on top of teaching this new man how to handle the world and get to know him. This was not going to be a quick read.

Absolutely fantastic. Cannot wait to read about Ellis being ‘definitely straight’ and meeting Gabe!