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His Best Friend's Heat
Updated and revised (August 2025)
A flustered omega. A “straight” alpha. One heat that changes everything.
Micah has loved his best friend forever—not that he’d ever say it out loud. Nick is confident, hot as hell, and totally, undeniably straight. Micah’s just the quiet omega best friend. End of story.
Until an early, out-of-control heat hits during a regular weekend sleepover, and Micah finds himself panting, needy, and helpless.
Nick shouldn’t want him. He definitely shouldn’t offer to help. But instincts are hard to fight—and once Micah’s in his arms, there's no going back. One night of desperate need. One accidental bond. One very confused alpha who suddenly can’t stand the thought of Micah being with anyone else.
His Best Friend’s Heat is a sweet and steamy 40k omegaverse novel featuring straight-to-gay awakening, friends-to-lovers tension, an unexpected heat, knotting, accidental bonding, and a happily ever after that starts with "Just this once" and ends with forever. Contains Mpreg.
A flustered omega. A “straight” alpha. One heat that changes everything.
Micah has loved his best friend forever—not that he’d ever say it out loud. Nick is confident, hot as hell, and totally, undeniably straight. Micah’s just the quiet omega best friend. End of story.
Until an early, out-of-control heat hits during a regular weekend sleepover, and Micah finds himself panting, needy, and helpless.
Nick shouldn’t want him. He definitely shouldn’t offer to help. But instincts are hard to fight—and once Micah’s in his arms, there's no going back. One night of desperate need. One accidental bond. One very confused alpha who suddenly can’t stand the thought of Micah being with anyone else.
His Best Friend’s Heat is a sweet and steamy 40k omegaverse novel featuring straight-to-gay awakening, friends-to-lovers tension, an unexpected heat, knotting, accidental bonding, and a happily ever after that starts with "Just this once" and ends with forever. Contains Mpreg.
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Published June 3, 2025
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August 10, 2025
As others have noted, there's absolutely no way this was even proofread, much less edited. Entirely possible it was written by AI tbh. There are so many errors and inconsistencies.
- A couple instances where sentences started with a lowercase letter two paragraphs in a row
- The alpha MC hollers his own last name while trying to yell at one of his players (he's a high school teacher and basketball coach apparently), instead of the player's last name
- The alpha MC says he's thirty years old, but he and the omega MC have been besties for 9 years since high school; was this guy a super super super super super super super senior?
- The alpha MC asks his brother if he can meet right away. The brother says he'll be there in 20 minutes. Immediate next sentence is the alpha MC teaching *multiple* high school classes as the day drags along. Then he meets his brother. Bro taught 2-3 different classes in 20 minutes? Okay.
- The alpha MC's mom says "her only son". We meet one of her other sons multiple times and they refer to two other siblings, one of whom is named Danny, and thus is probably another son.
- At the end of the final chapter the omega MC is two weeks pregnant, then we get to the epilogue that is labeled as being 18 months later and he immediately says his daughter is 18 months old. Literally how?
- When they're talking about the alpha MC being sentimental his mom says his dad was sentimental and held onto the tickets from their first movie date for thirty years. Oh, you mean the dad the alpha MC spent the entire book being terrified of becoming because he left their family for a random omega? That dad? Right.
It was so distracting. There was so much repetition on top of that, but the glaring inconsistencies were genuinely infuriating. Absolutely no chance this was proofread, much less actually edited.
- A couple instances where sentences started with a lowercase letter two paragraphs in a row
- The alpha MC hollers his own last name while trying to yell at one of his players (he's a high school teacher and basketball coach apparently), instead of the player's last name
- The alpha MC says he's thirty years old, but he and the omega MC have been besties for 9 years since high school; was this guy a super super super super super super super senior?
- The alpha MC asks his brother if he can meet right away. The brother says he'll be there in 20 minutes. Immediate next sentence is the alpha MC teaching *multiple* high school classes as the day drags along. Then he meets his brother. Bro taught 2-3 different classes in 20 minutes? Okay.
- The alpha MC's mom says "her only son". We meet one of her other sons multiple times and they refer to two other siblings, one of whom is named Danny, and thus is probably another son.
- At the end of the final chapter the omega MC is two weeks pregnant, then we get to the epilogue that is labeled as being 18 months later and he immediately says his daughter is 18 months old. Literally how?
- When they're talking about the alpha MC being sentimental his mom says his dad was sentimental and held onto the tickets from their first movie date for thirty years. Oh, you mean the dad the alpha MC spent the entire book being terrified of becoming because he left their family for a random omega? That dad? Right.
It was so distracting. There was so much repetition on top of that, but the glaring inconsistencies were genuinely infuriating. Absolutely no chance this was proofread, much less actually edited.
July 26, 2025
2.5⭐️ I think the author just needs a bit more experience to really flesh out a story. Very repetitive, to the point I felt trapped in a never-ending loop of storytelling. I feel like it had potential, but the style of writing was stilted and unpolished.
dnf
September 28, 2025DNF at 45%
we were just repeating the same things over and over and over again. so annoying. had such great potential and then it tanked
we were just repeating the same things over and over and over again. so annoying. had such great potential and then it tanked
September 12, 2025
I think my expectations for this book were reasonably low going in- I thought it would be a quick, fun read. Instead I read an extremely repetitive book with one odious MC and one boring MC. There were so many things that didn't make sense, or that were confusing and inconsistent. I really wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
When the alpha MC realizes that he can't handle another alpha's derogatory remarks about omegas after mating with one, he says:
Why is it suddenly intolerable? Because now I know. Now I understand what it feels like to care about an omega as a person first, to want to protect them from exactly this kind of objectification. To love them for who they are, not what biology makes them.
So you're telling me that your best friend and secret love is an omega, and you had no idea what it was like to spare an omega the indignity of objectification as a sex object until you were officially mated to him????????? WOW
When the alpha MC realizes that he can't handle another alpha's derogatory remarks about omegas after mating with one, he says:
Why is it suddenly intolerable? Because now I know. Now I understand what it feels like to care about an omega as a person first, to want to protect them from exactly this kind of objectification. To love them for who they are, not what biology makes them.
So you're telling me that your best friend and secret love is an omega, and you had no idea what it was like to spare an omega the indignity of objectification as a sex object until you were officially mated to him????????? WOW
August 13, 2025
Came for a silly omegaverse book, but got a silly, badly written, overly repetitive, and slightly boring one instead.
July 26, 2025
okay, so did they meet when they were 17 or when they were 21??? because micah said he's been in love with nick since he was 17 but they're 30, so nine years would have had them meeting at 21, not 17. and then how is the baby 18 months old in the epilogue, which was a time jump 18 months ahead, when micah was only two weeks pregnant in the previous chapter???
the inconsistencies in this book just killed me. in one scene, nick was supposed to meet up with his brother in 20 mins, but then went about his work day, letting hours pass. in another, micah called his sister because nick bonded him and then left (which he told her) but when she showed up, she was all surprised
and i just didn't care for micah or nick in general. it seemed like micah was just waiting around for nick to magically fall in love with him and idek about nick because at one point he said he'd been in love with micah for years but was scared to admit it because he always thought he was straight but in the next he only realized he was in love with micah like six months prior???
i spent the entirety of this book confused and frustrated
the inconsistencies in this book just killed me. in one scene, nick was supposed to meet up with his brother in 20 mins, but then went about his work day, letting hours pass. in another, micah called his sister because nick bonded him and then left (which he told her) but when she showed up, she was all surprised
and i just didn't care for micah or nick in general. it seemed like micah was just waiting around for nick to magically fall in love with him and idek about nick because at one point he said he'd been in love with micah for years but was scared to admit it because he always thought he was straight but in the next he only realized he was in love with micah like six months prior???
i spent the entirety of this book confused and frustrated
September 20, 2025
2.75 stars
This was cute!!
This was cute!!
dnf
June 22, 2025You'd think that with a title like that it would be just heat sex and more of an erotica than romance but the spice was surprisingly tame imo. They actually spend a lot of time talking about what happened during the heat and it was pretty cute.
I'd definitely read something else from this author if it were strangers to lovers. It's very difficult for me to enjoy friends to lovers when one has been pining and in love while the other is oblivious and dating around, in this particular case it made it worse when Nick's character follows the ' it's always been you I just never let myself see it' except he did see it, felt it but pushed it down and tried harder to make his relationship with his previous date work and ended things because it wasnt right.
Its more cute than I was expecting but also not for me because of what I just mentioned. I think would've worked for me had the bond not been made during the heat and Nick actually had to work on showing his best friend his change of feelings were real and not from the bond and then they couldve done it the right away after some groveling and wooing from Nick. 🤷♀️
I stopped reading after how easily Micah accepted Nick's feelings just because he showed him his own form of nesting ( which couldve had a bigger impact had Nick stopped dating when he started bringing things of Micah or for Micah into his room)
DNF @83%
I'd definitely read something else from this author if it were strangers to lovers. It's very difficult for me to enjoy friends to lovers when one has been pining and in love while the other is oblivious and dating around, in this particular case it made it worse when Nick's character follows the ' it's always been you I just never let myself see it' except he did see it, felt it but pushed it down and tried harder to make his relationship with his previous date work and ended things because it wasnt right.
Its more cute than I was expecting but also not for me because of what I just mentioned. I think would've worked for me had the bond not been made during the heat and Nick actually had to work on showing his best friend his change of feelings were real and not from the bond and then they couldve done it the right away after some groveling and wooing from Nick. 🤷♀️
I stopped reading after how easily Micah accepted Nick's feelings just because he showed him his own form of nesting ( which couldve had a bigger impact had Nick stopped dating when he started bringing things of Micah or for Micah into his room)
DNF @83%
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September 7, 2025
DNF'd at 47%. Everything about this book was so overly repetitive. I felt like I was losing my mind reading the same sentences over and over. This had potential but is in desperate need of major editing.
September 21, 2025
DNF after skimming and getting pissed off at myself.
There's a reason I have a no thanks shelf on Goodreads, and it isn't necessarily for terrible or problematic books.
It's because I have the worst memory when it comes to what I want to read, what I skimmed to make a freebie list, or what I've already had on my TBR and took off (and sometimes put back ON).
The No Thanks shelf reminds me I already know I don't want to read it for a reason, maybe it has bugs or slugs, maybe I read a really terrible review and I know I will hate the book based on that.
This was supposed to be on that shelf.
No. Thanks.
There's a reason I have a no thanks shelf on Goodreads, and it isn't necessarily for terrible or problematic books.
It's because I have the worst memory when it comes to what I want to read, what I skimmed to make a freebie list, or what I've already had on my TBR and took off (and sometimes put back ON).
The No Thanks shelf reminds me I already know I don't want to read it for a reason, maybe it has bugs or slugs, maybe I read a really terrible review and I know I will hate the book based on that.
This was supposed to be on that shelf.
No. Thanks.
August 6, 2025
I enjoyed the overall story, but my god was there a lot of repetition and just general issues. this needed at least one round of editing, if not more.
July 20, 2025
So repetitive it’s painful
I feel like I just kept re-reading the same sentence over and over and over again. The book would have been half as long and twice as good if it weren’t so repetitive.
I feel like I just kept re-reading the same sentence over and over and over again. The book would have been half as long and twice as good if it weren’t so repetitive.
December 6, 2025
це могла бути гарна історія, аби не те, як вона написано, бо це було просто вкрай нудно..
бісили деякі моменти:
Нік спочатку каже, що вкусив Міка з любові, а потім на наступній сторінці що з відчаю боже збав ти можеш визначитися
постійні нагадування один одному як усе несподівано і що їм потрібен час
я не повірила у зізнанні кохання їх один одному
але даю дві зірки, бо все було чудово до початку тічки Міки лол
бісили деякі моменти:
Нік спочатку каже, що вкусив Міка з любові, а потім на наступній сторінці що з відчаю боже збав ти можеш визначитися
постійні нагадування один одному як усе несподівано і що їм потрібен час
я не повірила у зізнанні кохання їх один одному
але даю дві зірки, бо все було чудово до початку тічки Міки лол
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July 24, 2025
1.5 stars.
This book should have been an initial draft, not a finished product. There were so many editing errors it was almost shocking. There were strange time jumps where the reader misses vital interactions. The characters didn't feel consistent throughout the story. The steamy scenes were okay, but not enough to carry the entire book.
This book should have been an initial draft, not a finished product. There were so many editing errors it was almost shocking. There were strange time jumps where the reader misses vital interactions. The characters didn't feel consistent throughout the story. The steamy scenes were okay, but not enough to carry the entire book.
August 5, 2025
★ ★ ★ ✬
Editing. EDITING.
Please authors, make sure you get a GOOD editor. The time errors killed me. I don’t usually post spoilers but these errors were terrible!!!
Just one example (SPOILER): the book ends when Micah is like two weeks along, but then the epilogue is 18 months later and their kid is 18 months old….thats not how it works!!!!
Another example: When Nick sets up the time to see his brother, his brother replies along the lines of it being 20 minutes until they can meet…but Nick finishes his school day so it’s HOURS later.
Nick says he loves Micah one second and the next he doesn’t know if he can love Micah. 🙄🙄 It was so exhausting reading so many errors.
The story itself was quick and pretty good but some good editing would definitely improve it.
Editing. EDITING.
Please authors, make sure you get a GOOD editor. The time errors killed me. I don’t usually post spoilers but these errors were terrible!!!
Just one example (SPOILER): the book ends when Micah is like two weeks along, but then the epilogue is 18 months later and their kid is 18 months old….thats not how it works!!!!
Another example: When Nick sets up the time to see his brother, his brother replies along the lines of it being 20 minutes until they can meet…but Nick finishes his school day so it’s HOURS later.
Nick says he loves Micah one second and the next he doesn’t know if he can love Micah. 🙄🙄 It was so exhausting reading so many errors.
The story itself was quick and pretty good but some good editing would definitely improve it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 31, 2025
I give 2 stars for the laughs. So many errors and so many repeats if the same thought throughout a chapter. Also, the math is NOT mathing in this novel. Like at all. They’ve been friends since they’re 17-18. Now they’re both 30. But they’ve been friends for 9 years. The epilogue math also doesn’t math at all.
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August 20, 2025𝓗𝓲𝓼 𝓑𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓕𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓼 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓽: 𝓪𝓷 𝓜𝓜 𝓞𝓶𝓮𝓰𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓮 𝓫𝔂 𝓐𝓷𝓼𝓵𝓮𝔂 𝓔𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓼
𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: DNFed - 83%
𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐞: 🌶 - This is me being nice
𝐆𝐨𝐚𝐥: 71/12
I was going to finish this book because it was on the smaller side, and I was hate reading it, but after the EIGHT smut scene that was COPY AND PASTE… not even a GOOD copy and paste, I was DONE. The smut wasn’t the only thing that the author copied and pasted… oh no. Multiple sentences and then a few paragraphs later were stated again in the same exact way. The book would have been significantly shorter if the author hadn’t do that (felt like they were just aiming for a word count at that point)
On top of the smut being absolute trash, there were so many details that would be stated, and then the author would contradict themselves. And not in a subtle kind of way, in a pretty big and lazy way.
One of the MMCs had to go to work from 12-8 (cool, that’s fine). Not even 1 page later, he went to work at 10 am, and there was no reason why he went earlier! It was little things like that. I get that authors make mistakes, but to have them multiple times in a book that are pretty big is sad.
I low-key wanted to finish this just so that I could rate it a 1 star since I don’t leave star ratings on books I dont finish, but I didn’t want to put myself through that torture.
This is what I get for being spontaneous and trying to read a book in between a series… next time I will pick up what I want instead of reading this.
This book has:
🌑 MM
🌑 Omegavers
🌑 Bi/gay awakening
🌑 accidental bonding/mpreg
August 9, 2025
micah & nick - 3 stars 🩵 i really loved this idea and the characters but sadly it wasn’t executed as well. this authors other book, his weekend alpha, is definitely my preferred of the two as you can definitely tell THIS one is the authors debut. it was going quite well until the writing got quite choppy in the middle. you could definitely tell the potential but i think there was no proofreader for this story which is why repetition and chunky storytelling was abound. i honestly think the author had a bunch of ideas but just never edited the full story, im sooo sad because i can see the potential of this story but the repetition and clumsiness gets in the way :(. you can DEFINITELY see this authors improvement in his weekend alpha and i think they will only improve with further works (i definitely recommend giving his weekend alpha a chance if you didn’t like this one because of the choppiness! there’s definitely improvement). im definitely still looking forward to reading devon (from his weekend alphas) story and any further stories they write as i can definitely see the potential, and you can see how much i loved my weekend alpha. all in all, i liked micah and nick but if this was edited and proofread it would’ve smoothed out better! i’ll be back to review more by this author :)
July 24, 2025
If you read for vibes and can overlook things easily its a lovely book but the primary issue for me was the inconsistent time lines of events.
In one chapter they state talking to their brother yesterday, 2 days ago and that day. Which is it?
In the final chapter the omega is 2 weeks pregnant, in the epilogue which states “18 months later” they have an 18 month old and the mc states an event that happened during the final chapter was 20 weeks ago, so it just didn’t make sense.
If the timeline issue was corrected this would be a solid 4 star read for me, it was just tough to get over the timeline thing.
In one chapter they state talking to their brother yesterday, 2 days ago and that day. Which is it?
In the final chapter the omega is 2 weeks pregnant, in the epilogue which states “18 months later” they have an 18 month old and the mc states an event that happened during the final chapter was 20 weeks ago, so it just didn’t make sense.
If the timeline issue was corrected this would be a solid 4 star read for me, it was just tough to get over the timeline thing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 18, 2025
This was fine I think. TBH I can’t even remember what happened lmao.
September 6, 2025
I could have proofread this for free
October 18, 2025
there were so many inconsistencies in the story that made it really hard to follow. The author definitely needs to proofread and flesh out some ideas.
But there was mpreg so yay
But there was mpreg so yay
November 9, 2025
This is cute mostly and would have rated it higher if it didn’t have the stupid I’m only gay for you trope nonsense that I hate.
November 19, 2025
DNF @ P60 (33% - Ch.7)
July 24, 2025
omegaverse, knotting, mpreg. best friends to lovers and it was bland.
July 21, 2025
There were a lot of plot holes. A lot of inconsistencies, specially with the characters, their actions, and their motivations. Felt like maybe the author tried to stretch out the angst but felt short
P 2/5
E 2/5
A 1/5
C 2/5
H 1/5
8/5 1.5 stars
P 2/5
E 2/5
A 1/5
C 2/5
H 1/5
8/5 1.5 stars
October 1, 2025
3 stars✨
Decent! Very fast paced.
Decent! Very fast paced.
August 12, 2025
Bro for the majority of the book I thought Micah had a vagina the way the romance scenes were shown. That last bit I was screaming JUST BONE. Sorry, glad it worked out for them tho
July 28, 2025
This book needed an editor so bad that it was actually frustrating to read. There were so many contradictory details that I felt compelled to write a review without even finishing it.
For example, one character states that they work noon to eight that day. They are dropped off for their shift, "the morning passes in a blur of medication rounds, vitals checks, and comforting frightened children before procedures", THEN "by noon, though, the ache...". Somehow, hours had passed during the character's work shift (which started at noon), then by noon, things were going wrong.
Another example, a character texts their brother, asking to meet up. The brother offers to get coffee after work but the character says, "can you meet now?". The brother says they "can leave early. Studio in 20." However, instead of meeting now, the character goes through all of their afternoon classes before making their way to the studio, interrupting the brother working and in a mostly empty office. So, they agreed to meet immediately, just for the character to finish their own workday (which is at a high school) to then go his brother's work where "most of the staff already gone for the day." The time skips and inconsistencies should have been caught during the editing process - especially since all of this happens on the same page.
There were also instances where the same sentence is repeated verbatim in the following paragraph which made me feel like I was going insane. Paired along with that, there were so many circular thoughts that it made entire chapters an echo of 'I'm feeling this way' to 'but actually I'm feeling this way and have to do this' to 'oh no, I actually feel this way and I shouldn't have done that.' It got repetitive and nearly made me hate the characters because they were so unstable in their thoughts. I get inner turmoil, but having a character go from 'I'm just like my father because x' to 'I'm not like my father because I'm doing x' to 'I'm just like my father for doing x' is so frustrating. They are supposed to be 30 (except they've been friends since they were 17 which was supposedly 9 years ago), not 19 - they should know themselves better.
I'm getting picky, but two chapters end with the characters saying that they need to have a serious conversation and it seems like the conversation is about to happen - then the next chapter skips to the next morning and no serious conversation has been had. This is a huge plot point, something that needs to happen and will push along the book and their relationship. Except, they either have the conversation off screen (which is a crazy thing to do due to its importance) or they just go to bed and don't have the conversation?
There's the infrequent grammar issue, including multiple instances where the first letter of sentences just aren't capitalized. But this is forgivable and expected. It's definitely something I can look over, but the other issues are just annoying.
I'm not sure if I'm going to finish this book and I honestly couldn't recommend it to anyone.
For example, one character states that they work noon to eight that day. They are dropped off for their shift, "the morning passes in a blur of medication rounds, vitals checks, and comforting frightened children before procedures", THEN "by noon, though, the ache...". Somehow, hours had passed during the character's work shift (which started at noon), then by noon, things were going wrong.
Another example, a character texts their brother, asking to meet up. The brother offers to get coffee after work but the character says, "can you meet now?". The brother says they "can leave early. Studio in 20." However, instead of meeting now, the character goes through all of their afternoon classes before making their way to the studio, interrupting the brother working and in a mostly empty office. So, they agreed to meet immediately, just for the character to finish their own workday (which is at a high school) to then go his brother's work where "most of the staff already gone for the day." The time skips and inconsistencies should have been caught during the editing process - especially since all of this happens on the same page.
There were also instances where the same sentence is repeated verbatim in the following paragraph which made me feel like I was going insane. Paired along with that, there were so many circular thoughts that it made entire chapters an echo of 'I'm feeling this way' to 'but actually I'm feeling this way and have to do this' to 'oh no, I actually feel this way and I shouldn't have done that.' It got repetitive and nearly made me hate the characters because they were so unstable in their thoughts. I get inner turmoil, but having a character go from 'I'm just like my father because x' to 'I'm not like my father because I'm doing x' to 'I'm just like my father for doing x' is so frustrating. They are supposed to be 30 (except they've been friends since they were 17 which was supposedly 9 years ago), not 19 - they should know themselves better.
I'm getting picky, but two chapters end with the characters saying that they need to have a serious conversation and it seems like the conversation is about to happen - then the next chapter skips to the next morning and no serious conversation has been had. This is a huge plot point, something that needs to happen and will push along the book and their relationship. Except, they either have the conversation off screen (which is a crazy thing to do due to its importance) or they just go to bed and don't have the conversation?
There's the infrequent grammar issue, including multiple instances where the first letter of sentences just aren't capitalized. But this is forgivable and expected. It's definitely something I can look over, but the other issues are just annoying.
I'm not sure if I'm going to finish this book and I honestly couldn't recommend it to anyone.
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