Showing posts with label Hello Goodbye Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hello Goodbye Series. Show all posts
So obviously,
Sarina Bowen could write a tampon ad and I would have to read it. And since she
is one of very few authors who the leading characters gender makes very little
difference even though the m/m genre isn't one I actively search out. And yet
every single one of her books has been such a massive hit for me.
I hadn't
heard of the original version of this book so when I got the opportunity to
read this one I just read the blurb and dove right on in. I was expecting a lot
of angst and heartbreak. I am incredibly happy to say there wasn't a lot of
either and instead I got an absolutely beautiful love story. But in true Sarina
Bowen form it did also include some smoking hot sex scenes.
The book is
told in large sections of alternate point of views continuing on from each
other. But it also includes a lot of background information and the details on
the cult and their lives within it were so detailed I felt like I was there
with them.
I love the
fact that having read the true north series I already knew a little bit about
paradise from Leah and Isaac. And although it had no impact on the story and
wouldn't matter if you hadn't read them it just added a little something to the
story for me.
The
secondary characters in this were as beautiful as the main men and despite the
fact I did shed a few tears this was just an all round sweet story. Caleb and
Josh were the perfect heroes and watching them enter and adapt to a whole new
world had me up to 3am because there was no way I could put the book down.
This is one
of those rare reads where everything worked so perfectly that I want there to
be another ten books in their story just so I can stay with them. Honestly even
if m/m isn't your thing you need to read this book.
Most people called it a cult. But for twenty years, Josh and Caleb called it home.
In
Paradise, there is no television. No fast food. Just long hours of farm
work and prayer on a dusty Wyoming ranch, and nights in a crowded
bunkhouse. The boys of the Compound are kept far from the sinners’
world.
But
Joshua doesn’t need temptation to sin. His whole life, he’s wanted his
best friend, Caleb. By day they work side by side. Only when Josh closes
his eyes at night can they be together the way he craves.
It can never be. And his survival depends on keeping his terrible desires secret.
Caleb
has always protected Josh against the worst of the bullying at the
Compound. But he has secrets of his own, and a plan to get away — until
it all backfires.
Josh
finds himself homeless in a world that doesn’t want him. Can Caleb find
him in time? And will they find a place of safety, where he can admit
to Josh how he really feels?
Warning:
Contains a hot male/male romance, copious instances of taking the
Lord's name in vain, and love against the kitchen counter. This book was previously released under the title: In Front of God & Everyone.
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