After This

by Anna Grace

Discharged from the army and disowned by his father, Adrien moves to Paris to stay with his college roommate and crush.

British Army veteranAdrien Winter is discharged and disowned. After Adrien comes home to London with a shrapnel wound to his back, his father quickly takes the family corporation out from under him. Alone and on a meager army pension, he calls the one person who might the roommate he adored in college.

Yuki Sato is finishing his grad studies in Paris and thinks himself long over the nights when he yearned for his former, straight roommate. But when Adrien walks through the door, soft, sweet Yuki is at love's mercy once again.

94 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 26, 2015

Reviews

[Katrina Passick Lumsden · Rating 2 out of 5]

Having a hard time deciding how to rate this one. It's not terrible, but there were so many things Grace could have capitalized on and expanded to make the story more relatable, and those lost opportunities cast a rather unflattering light on the story overall. Adrien and Yuki were cute, but emotionally closed off, both to each other and to the reader, so getting to know them was not only difficult, but nearly impossible. It made their eventual romance fall flat. The relationship between Adrien and his father felt like a waste of time, and the lack of communication all around was a detriment to the flow of every aspect of the story.