chiarob's reviews
874 reviews

Best-friends-to-lovers in a hockey setting is probably my favorite trope, and this book didn't disappoint. There was so much pining, so much sadness, but I did believe the two MCs were destined for each other in every universe. As always, Hannah Henry excels in two parts of her story: a bi-awakening which feels "simple" and real, and creating a "world-of-two" story. There are side characters, but the two MCs spend so much time together, and so much time thinking about each other, that everything else doesn't matter. I still find the story a bit sad even with its HEA, and that's the reason why I didn't give it 5 stars.

I received a copy of this book from the author, and this is my honest review. 

I prefer Tal's contemporary romances to his romantic suspense novels, but I've been finding it so difficult to read lately and this book was such a breath of fresh air

I'm not sure why, but it was making me anxious. Stories with ghosts/undead people are not for me

This was EXACTLY what I wanted when reading an alien x human romance. Miscommunication which is well done, without ending up doing dubcon. Kudos to the author!

This story was sooo peculiar. Something that I find really interesting about MM romances from a decade ago is that they don't conform to genre expectations. The plot of this book was like that. Also, it aged well.

I love oblivious best-friends-to-lovers (even more when there's a bi-awakening) and this book delivered on that front (the pining!! the fact that they

watch porn together and pine!!

). So the first 50% was a 5 stars to me. But then the miscommunication became too much: it was absolutely realistic, but it was draining

I didn't understand this was mpreg. For me, there's nothing more triggering than mpreg in an alien x human scenario, where the human doesn't know it's even possible... so DNF 20% in