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// The author can’t go based on how she would react or feel, she has to be 100% logical and discerning when plotting a character, because she may push Aiden’s personality to the point where he is so incredibly obnoxious, aggravating, irritating, and fucking unlikable, that he’ll end up just being completely irredeemable! She’ll end up completely obliterating, decimating, destroying, and sabotaging the book!!!

// This author really needs to fucking be careful, because while she has a plan with this plot, she can push way too far, and bring Aiden to the point where he’s completely irredeemable!!

// Reading this a second time around, I’m dumbfounded at how I didn’t see Aiden as so incredibly fucking obnoxious, irritating, aggravating, ignorant, judgmental, so fucking full of himself, and obnoxiously dismissive of everyone around him!!

// Aiden is such a fucking judgemental piece of shit, I really wanna hit him and slap him hard 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡!!!

// So, because you specifically are incapable of helping her, you were unwilling to find her help elsewhere, from people who could help her aside from you?! That logic does not actually make any logical sense, and you’re a fucking idiot for ever thinking that way!!

// Wow, Aiden is coming across as incredibly unlikeable so far … also so far up his own ass and lying to himself about being able to handle everything and refusing to accept help!!!

// Wow, what the fuck is Aiden’s problem?! He hates anyone who is happy, it seems, and anybody who is trying to help him or be good to him or be kind to him!! I really wanna slap Aiden right now!!

// Aiden, you pined after a man you knew you would never and could never have, and I am really thinking that that was, by way of an introduction to the person in his family, that you would find to be the absolute complete love of your life!! This moment still hits quite profoundly, so beautiful!!

Having a hard time sticking with this. Aiden is so fucking annoying. I’m getting impatient to see his ridiculous denial of reality come to an end.

marco is one of my favorite characters ever 🥰

i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee this💙

I came to really like Marco and Ben, but I didn’t feel quite the same pull I felt with Theo and Morgan (if their book wasn’t so damn depressing and oddly paced it would be my favorite). Or at least, I didn’t feel that way about Aiden until Marco started having his own troubles and Aiden had to rise to the occasion for him, instead of the other way around. They take care of each other so well by the end

This one had the least amount of push-pull angst between the romantic leads (once Aiden got over being a jerk struggling with everything on his own), but it also felt like it had too much going on at times: the financial struggle, Aiden’s dad’s gambling addiction, the mom recovering from a breakdown, all of Evan’s secrets, Evan and Aiden both still closeted to their mom, the birth dad, etc etc

I’m really enjoying this author’s books— even if they are slowly torturing me with hurt/comfort —but her endings are killing me. So much is left until the end that things just feel abrupt. I don’t get why meeting his birth dad would be the last scene? It was not the largest plot point of the book, nor his biggest worry. Glad Marco and Evan were with him, but I needed another scene with just Aiden and Marco.

So glad that Aiden finally dropped everything and flew to Italy to be with Marco while his mom recovered. Aiden does so much for his family, but Marco does so much for Aiden that I was feeling that their relationship give-and-take was far too lopsided

Me, starting this book: Aiden is a cranky angsty jerk, but at least this will be more comfort and less hurt than After Ben

This book: PAIN NOTHING BUT PAIN. Marco brings some comfort though. Speaking of Marco, here’s a side of pain for him too.

Me, at the 85% mark: 😭😭😭😭

Marco’s sigh was lengthy. “Watching you go through this on your own is like a form of torture. I wish I could be with you, tesoro.” “Me too.”
Aiden reached out and touched his laptop screen, feeling the exact same way about watching Marco deal with his mother’s illness. “Me too.”

“Yeah. Do you know what it means?” It suddenly seemed really important that he know what Marco had been thinking as he’d flown away.
Theo’s voice was low, his tone choked as he translated for Aiden.
“Mi manchi già means ‘I miss you already,’ and Non potrei amarti di più means ‘I could not love you more.’”

😭❤️