I Got You, Love

We Choose Love #1

by Desiree DuBois

James, Amanda, and Tony return home for the summer after college to enjoy the pool and a low-stress summer before heading off to graduate school in the fall. Instead, they find themselves confronting their growing attraction and the romantic feelings they've spent years silencing. What does it mean to be in love with your best friends? How can a relationship between the three of them work? A steamy game at a friend's party early in the summer makes their attraction impossible to ignore, even if an old high school bully is intent on ruining their golden summer. This low-angst summer read is a cozy, why choose novel with spice, romance, and consent in abundance.

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 16, 2024

About the author

An author of romantic erotica.
The pen name of Desiree DuBois began her writing journey via fanfiction in the Twilight era of 2008. She branched out to Voltron in 2016, and Good Omens in 2019. All the while, she wondered if she could write original fiction on her own. Then, under her real name, she wrote in the shared world of The Aetherverse with her husband, and that gave her the courage to rework the draft (originally written in 2015 and not touched for six years!) that became I've Got You, Love and I Knew I Loved You, as well as write a solo book under her own name.
You can find me on AO3 at my1alias and Tumblr at my1aliasNSFW.

Reviews

[Emma · Rating 1 out of 5]

✔️MFM Why Choose romance (they all wanted it to be MMF but that didn’t happen on page)
✔️best friends to lovers
✔️low angst
✔️no 3rd act breakup

I had high hopes for this book because I love why choose romance and one of my favorite tropes is (best) friends to lovers, but this missed the mark for me. I have two main issues - the writing is a little clunky and hard to follow at times, and way too much time is spent showing us flashbacks to each person’s relationship/sex scenes with their ex (and it felt like it they were only there to throw in more diversity just to say it was there). When I am reading a romance novel I don’t want to see sex scenes (or really any scenes at all) with the ex(s). They are an ex for a reason, we don’t need to see the (honestly irrelevant) past when word count could be spent building the current relationship that is heading toward a happily ever after. Those three chapters could have been spent showing us what happened when they moved in together (which was talked about several times but we never actually see) or focusing on the growing relationship between the two guys (which is talked about/hinted at several times but never actually happened). The ending was abrupt and maybe there will be a second book focusing on these characters, but that wasn’t clear. There wasn’t really a cliffhanger but there wasn’t really a fully wrapped up ending/HEA either. This book felt like a peek into someone’s life with random reminiscing flashbacks rather than a romance novel.

On a positive note, this book is a guide book on enthusiastic consent and I love that, we need more of that. I love that it was low angst, and there was little drama within the relationship itself. The spice was spicy, I just wish the plot was better/made more sense.

[Desiree DuBois]

I am the author. I hope you love my book as much as I do. These characters have squirmed their way into my heart and I'm having a blast writing book 2!

[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you're looking for a quick read and only want pure smut. This is it, but I'm definitely curious about those parents, though.🤣

[Jen Desmarais]

This is my pen name. I loved writing this, and the trio had such a grip on my heart.