My entire life has been a lie, hiding my true identity to please parents who would never think I was worthy, regardless. Longing for something unattainable, I meet someone who not only accepts my secrets, but embraces them. The first time someone actually reciprocates my love, and he’s a sociopath. Of course, that would be my luck. Do I accept him as he accepts me? Can I commit to someone so toxic? Is he my only shot at the kind of future I’ve always wanted?
Breeze
The plan was simple. Fuck the man that was fucking my woman and let her “catch” us. No one plays me for a fool, they would both learn the error of their ways. How the hell was I supposed to know he was the one thing my chaotic heart needed to feel grounded? Never believing love was something meant for me, now that I knew what it felt like, I would stop at nothing to keep it. To keep him. Nothing.
Similar authors for dirty MM romance for me are; K Webster Kate Rivenhall / Kate Riven Josh Hunter
I’m only 56% in but I am feeling sorry for the crazy MMC-1 Breeze. Yes, he accidentally over dosed the other MMC-2 Sandy (yes I know how stupid that sounds lol), but still Breeze is going nuts over Sandy and all Sandy does and thinks is “me me me, woas me!”. Yes, Breeze has k!lled someone, but had Sandy not been rejecting him over a silly mistake, lol just kidding. If Sandy had just given Breeze a second chance then the OM wouldn’t have ended up de@d, is all I’m saying.
Breeze had a really bad childhood, while Sandy whines about having to hide his sexuality because his parents weren’t accepting. But from what the story has told us so far is that Sandy was still living that life. He lived in another state from his elderly parents who wouldn’t have known anyway! Also, Sandy in my opinion didn’t really try all that hard to get his family to accept him. Sandy is a coward.
While I try not to compare people’s sob stories, for the purpose of my issues with these characters I will. Breeze has unresolved PTSD from the murder of his parent that he witnessed as a child, and seems to have been left alone to deal with it all on his own ever since. Alongside a healthy dose of abandonment issues. He has now fixated on Sandy after two weeks of “friendship”, and is going out of his mind trying to keep him. While Sandy is now playing mind games to make his ego feel better about himself. To boost his own confidence.
I hate mind games. Do you think it’s okay to play mind games with someone who is clearly incapable of normal interactions? It’s like playing mind games with someone you know is mentally disabled. Would you feel sympathy or respect for someone who does that? NO! So Sandy who had some valid reasons at one point in this story, has now lost ALL credibility with me. If you are truly afraid of someone you don’t provoke them! YOU DON’T POKE A BEAR!! You don’t keep having sex with them! And that is what Sandy is doing now. Granted it’s the authors way of the character doing mental gymnastics to accept his relationship with a crazy person, but I don’t care. There had to have been a better way to get this couple together. Like in “Crazy Bitch” by this author, it was all about care, consistency, commitment, and pleasure that won over the MMC to his abductor/r@pist/FMC. More of that would have been better than this mental trap.
71% UPDATE
I’m over Sandy. He is beyond annoying. Whiny, insecure, selfish, self centered, still a coward. Honestly this book has been more about him coming out of the closet then it has been about this couple finding their way to be together after betrayal and extreme toxicity. I seriously wish the murderously crazy MMC-1 Breeze would get someone else to fixate on. This whole book is so one sided in Sandy’s favor and he is not worth this much attention at all. Ugh.
75% UPDATE
Chapter 39 is so unnecessary. Why is Breeze k!lling such random ass people!?! Ugh.
I’m DNF’ing for now. I’ve lost interest in this couple. I was really rooting for them but the book started as a betrayal revenge bi-awakening story and has devolved into a coming out of the closet, gratuitous murders, erotica. I feel like it lost the plot like twenty chapters ago. The constant flip flopping of Sandy, will he won’t he break up with the crazy murderer Breeze, got old at 45%. And here we are at 75% still not having progressed at all. Sandy keeps bonding with everyone he meets and claims to “never have had a friend like this before”, just like he did with Breeze in the beginning but he only wants to have sex with Breeze. The same guy Sandy is so desperate to get away from. Besides that, their only encounters are always sexual after the first betrayal at the beginning of the book. So too much time is wasted on Sandy figuring out his in or out of the closet status and next to none on this couple getting together. Breeze is having a one sided relationship with his blowup doll Sandy and that is not enough for me to continue this pointless story right now. 12-21-2024
Yeah alright. I thought I would leave a review since I actually finished the book. Which surprisingly is the only good thing I can say about this novel. Despite it's length, it was easy reading, flew through it.
Onto the bad, where I will try to be as concise as possible. You know that saying about throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Well that is this book in a nutshell, except the spaghetti is only half cooked.
My main issue is that the MCs seem to fall in love off page in the beginning chapters of the book. Unfortunately this made the rest of the book feel rather bizarre. These characters are continuously saying "I love you" but it's just so unbelievable. I really think if the author replaced the word "love" with "need" this book would have made more sense.
I think the author wants you to see Sandy as the "normal" one, however i think he's just as crazy as Breeze. This book really suffered with highly repetitive inner monologue from Sandy. He constantly cycles through the reasons he shouldnt be with Breeze but arrives at the same conclusion - he loves him and will continue to do nothing about it. It's really frustrating to spend so much time in an apathetic and cowardice POV.
You could have removed the middle 70% if this book and I wouldnt have noticed. The only development that occurs is that Sandy starts wearing corsets.
Now onto the stuff that feels kinda problematic - sex scenes. There is not a SINGLE use of lube throughout this book. There is a throwaway line in the beginning about Sandy being "trained" to have anal sex without lube. So for every encounter following they just raw dog it, no condom, no prep. For a book that is so gratuitous, the Author really avoided describing anal sex, to the point where it started to feel less like a kinky choice and more like actual homophobia. Breeze refers to Sandy's asshole as a "pussy", he penetates him without any foreplay or lube. Honestly I was thinking to myself "is Sandy intersex? Does he have a vagina? Because that would make more sense than whatever the fuck I'm reading".
Additionally there are a lot of inconsistencies that were hard to ignore. for e.g Tabitha - an important side character - talks about how the reason she cheated on breeze was that she grew up with 5 brothers and needs attention. A bit later Sandy is woeing about how he needs men to like him, and Tabitha says she "can't relate"??? The author took the one thing that gave Tabitha some personality and flip-flopped on it.
Writing style not for me. The direction the plot goes is not for me. The odd stage direction, instead of saying the character walked across the room or ate something... lifted my foot, bent my knee, lowered my foot, took a stride...
Emotionally & logically, the characters acted/reacted outside of the human condition. All shock value.