Just Friends (Never Just Friends, Band 1)

Just Friends (Never Just Friends, Band 1)

Softcover
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Roo Five years ago, I walked away from Sunbury, Oregon, and left my best friend behind. The move was supposed to get my life on track. I even had a list. Life changing epilepsy surgery. Check.See the world. Check.Get over my straight best friend … Not exactly.No matter where I go or who I meet, I can’t let Tanner go. I’m back to tell him how I feel. To get the closure I need once and for all.Only now I’m here and falling for him all over again, it’s getting harder to say the words. Because once I have my closure, I’ll be gone. And this time it will be for good. Tanner When my best friend, Roo, left for Australia, it was the worst day of my life. I thought we’d have each other always.But Roo needed the surgery so I let him go, thinking he’d come straight back.Five years is a long time.Now he’s here, all I want is to hold on tight. I need to show him what he means to me. The problem is, I’m not exactly sure what that is. My draw to him has always been confusing and different—everyone in town says so. But I struggle to understand it. All I know is I won’t survive him leaving again. And I’ll do anything to make him stay. Just Friends is a best friends-to-lovers romance with an oblivious MC, only one bed, and terrible kangaroo jokes.

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Format
Softcover
Pages
301
Price
13.28 €

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Eine ganz tolle Einstiegsgeschichte in leicht spicy New Adult & Repräsentation von Epilepsie UND Dyslexia!

Die Geschichte ist so leichtfüßig und einfach süß, man kann Tanner und Roo nur ins Herz schließen. Auch ohne dramatische Hintergrundgeschichte (wobei Epilepsie schon auch nicht ganz undramatisch ist, aber wunderbar einfühlsam erzählt wird!) kann sich diese Kleinstadtromanze sehen lassen. Die spicy Szenen sind selten und nicht super detailliert, das trifft meinen persönlichen Geschmack sehr. Ich bin noch nicht ganz in der Freundesgruppe bzw. dem Stadtsetting drin, aber das kommt hoffentlich mit den nächsten Teilen. Saxon schreibt sich auch einfach doch in mein Herz, nachdem ich nach dem Divorced Men Club schon eher abgeneigt war.

3.5

Friends With Benefits (Never just Friends #3,5), read: 22.9.2024 An in-between novella that isn't on Reado. Cute millionth-chance romance - but I am very happy that I did not read about x years of non-communication, and instead jumped right into the right moment. 😉

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The childhood best friends to lovers, one party having a gay crisis trope was middle of the road enjoyable, I guess, I don't vibe with the homonormativity of moving back to a small town for a guy, deciding to stay for a guy, buying a house with a guy, but that's a personal preference. The biggest aspect preoccupying my thoughts is the disability rep in this. On the one hand, I am floored both MCs are disabled, to be honest. Like, holy hell! How wonderful! And I think it is honest to explore the ableism that came with that in Roo's teens especially and how that also reflected on his best friend. How the switch is suddenly flicked after his surgery with how the town's people interact with him to me lost a lot of complexity, which is a bummer. Then again, the disability was incorporated in their relationship in a meaningful way and them not just being a subplot that didn't factor into the romance was a plus. On the other hand, having a love interest in tune with his friend's access needs while simultaneously having internalised ableism to the point of not asking for assistance was really realistic to me. It was a lesson well learned for myself to see disability is not a pissing contest and I like that the MC learned it too. And part of both of their growth was how they themselves interacted with their own disability and I enjoyed that. CNs for bullying, epileptic seizures, external and internalised ableism, so. much. pining, miscommunication, allusions to homophobia, coming out

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Eine ganz tolle Einstiegsgeschichte in leicht spicy New Adult & Repräsentation von Epilepsie UND Dyslexia!Die Geschichte ist so leichtfüßig und einfach süß, man kann Tanner und Roo nur ins Herz schließen. Auch ohne dramatische Hintergrundgeschichte (wobei Epilepsie schon auch nicht ganz undramatisch ist, aber wunderbar einfühlsam erzählt wird!) kann sich diese Kleinstadtromanze sehen lassen. Die spicy Szenen sind selten und nicht super detailliert, das trifft meinen persönlichen Geschmack sehr. Ich bin noch nicht ganz in der Freundesgruppe bzw. dem Stadtsetting drin, aber das kommt hoffentlich mit den nächsten Teilen. Saxon schreibt sich auch einfach doch in mein Herz, nachdem ich nach dem Divorced Men Club schon eher abgeneigt war.

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