All He Ever Needed
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Some secrets are too heavy to hold on to forever.
For Ethan, pretending has become second nature. After all, he’s spent the last decade pretending to be straight, pretending to be happy, and pretending he isn’t desperately in love with his best friend. But in a single moment of raw honesty, all those lies come crashing down around him and he’s left wondering what to do next.
When Jase learns his best friend is going through a breakup, his first instinct is to come to Ethan’s rescue, and he knows just the thing to help. The cabin where they spent summers as kids is sitting vacant, and a week there is the perfect remedy to start healing a broken heart.
In the seclusion of the mountains, long-buried fears and emotions take their friendship into unexplored territory that will either bring them closer together… or tear everything apart.
4.5 Stars
I really enjoyed this book. There was a lot of emotions flying around! And I felt the author did a good job making you feel what they felt in certain situations in this book. It was sweet and heavy. Both men were going through an array of feelings. Moving in uncharted waters. One making the decision to finally be true to himself and the other trying to fully embrace all the changes that was happening to him. He always saw himself one way…. so when he took the leap and opened himself up to be with another person. A man. It threw him off. He was trying to find the balance from the person he was before to the person he is now.
Both Jase and Ethan have only ever been with women. Jase would hook up in his early years with girls and as he got older he had a on again off again girlfriend. But he never seemed to care when they were off. Jase has only been with one girl. They were serious. Once he started noticing some of their mutual friends getting married and having kids. He knew he couldn’t live a lie anymore. He had to be honest with himself and with his girlfriend.
That’s what I liked about this book. The raw honesty of his situation. He was coming out while in a long term relationship. It wasn’t pretty. Feeling were all over the place. It was pretty sad.
Jase took Ethan to a cabin they would go to when they were kids. He knew Ethan needed to get away. That’s where things changed for both of them. That week at the cabin was like an awakening. Things were said and things were done. They were in their own little bubble.
But once they got back to reality (back home). The bubble popped. It was time to face what they were doing with each other.
Ok… so I wished we would’ve gotten a little more from Ethan. I felt because he wanted Jase so much he wasn’t willing to rock the boat. He was just happy for whatever Jase wanted. And Jase I felt should’ve communicated better with Ethan.
Overall this was a good read. I hope we get a little more from them. I would love to read how they are years from now.
*ARC provided for an honest review*
Cate discovered her love for books of all kinds early on, but romance is where her heart truly lies. She is addicted to the happily ever afters and the journey the characters take to get there. Currently residing in White Rock, B.C, Cate loves living just a stone’s throw from the ocean. When she’s not writing, she can be found consuming coffee at an alarming rate while wrangling her children, her husband, and their two cats.
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