A review by writtenechoes
Draft Bust by Hannah Henry

4.0

I love Hannah's writing so much. It's always like sitting down in a cozy chair by a roaring fire with a warm blanket and a glass of peppermint tea.

Oliver was an injury prone hockey player. A final debilitating injury takes him out of the game. He decides to write his memoir and in doing so, he'll be coming out. In this world that Hannah has crafted there are already a handful of queer athletes but not a large amount. Jordan is a former beat reporter, now laid off, that was always very favorable to Oliver when he wrote about him. So, Oliver hires him to ghost write his memoir. They move in together for a month so that Jordan can get Oliver's story and start writing. You can guess where it goes from there :)

To the background of their love story, it's a tender story about not quite meeting the expectations others and yourself put on you. It's also a story about dealing with chronic pain and how some people treat you like an inconvenience and some treat you like it's just a part of you. Jordan never once treated Oliver like anything other then himself.

Usually, when Oliver was in a black mood, people gave him a wide berth. Jordan was the only person who had ever stepped into the storm to weather it with him.

AND

Oliver had a pretty serious case of resting bitch face, but when he saw Jordan, that melted away.

Hannah is very good at writing domestic sweet love stories. Jordan and Oliver cooked a lot in this book, not much else to do when you're stuck in a mansion together to write a memoir. And it kind of became how they showed their love to one another. A beautiful example of their love languages merging. And as always, I laughed a lot because Hannah is funny without really trying to be funny. Oliver is one of my favorite kinds of characters, gruff and a bit grumpy but also so very funny in his observance of life.

Either way, I recommend this if you're looking for a low-angst, fluffy, easy story about two guys that meet at the right time and fall in love. You can't ever really beat that