Officer Joshua Dabbs has been married to his husband, lawyer Garrison Williams, for six years. So he still remembers what Garrison's like with a wedding to plan, and he knows that when their two good friends, Rick and Emmanuel, decide to tie the knot, he won't be seeing much of his husband until it's over. But Emmanuel needs advice, and Josh finds himself asking questions about his and Garrison's relationship that he hadn't thought of before -- mainly, do they want kids? As usual, Garrison knows what Josh is thinking before he does
Since 2006, J. Rocci has published LGBT romance stories, ranging from contemporary to steampunk to fantasy. Rocci currently lives near Washington D.C. with the love of her life and their furry children, and loves giving her characters happy endings.
This is a great fourth installment to Josh and Garrison's story. Their relationship gets deeper in each book, and I like that. Planning a friend's wedding brings out some interesting discussions for them, and they come to a very surprising conclusion. I'm looking forward to the next one!
It's great to catch up with Garrison and Josh again and we see more of their friends in this installment. The guys make a big decision and I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.
This story falls in the roughly the middle of the series, and I confess I have not read them all, but we reviewed Concordant the book before this one, and Competition,the book after. To refresh, Josh and Garrison met in the marines, and have since left the military, gotten married and are living in Vermont where Josh is a police officer and Garrison a lawyer. They have made some good friends, including Emmanuel and David, who have now gotten engaged and Garrison has gone into wedding planner mode with David.
The wedding triggers some new issues for both couples. Emmanuel is dealing with staunchly Catholic parents who are refusing to attend, and they are also thinking about adopting, something that never occurred to Josh, he’s got two dogs, including one that regularly shreds his uniform shirts, he’s not interested in kids. Is he?
There’s not much plot to this story, just kind of a gentle moving forward of their relationship as they consider if they want to change their life. Garrison is a very busy attorney, Josh has weird hours at work, can they fit kids in there somewhere? It’s nice to see Josh and Garrison nine years into their relationship, still happy and in love, and watching Garrison, the man who puts on dress pants and a shirt to go grocery shopping, wedding plan with dreadlocked hippie tattooist David was cute. I think fans of this couple would most enjoy it, but the author has a pleasant style with nice guys you can relate to.
This can be read as a stand-alone, there is enough background given that you aren’t lost as to who the two men are, but seeing their relationship move to another level will probably be appreciated more by those who’ve read some of the other stories in the series.