This novel was soo good. Jamie and Wes have been best friends for six weeks every summer between the ages of 12 and 18 where they were roommates at an ice hockey summer camp. When Wes fell in love with Jamie, he thought he fucked up their friendship with a dare, and broke up contact as a consequence. Four years later, they meet again, both wishing to get their old friendship back. They do, finding themselves back at the summer camp, this time as coaches, sharing a room again. We follow them working through old and not-quite-new-but-newly-acknowledged feelings, what that means and what they want it to mean for their friendship, their relationship, their now and their future. The writing was great and the dynamic between Jamie and Wes, but also the few other characters that showed up, kept me glued to the book because I needed to know what they'd do next. What helped was that it was never a question that they cared for each other. The questions were in which way and what does it mean for them, but never that they care. I loved that, it made for a pleasant reading experience. The hockey setting also worked nice, and I liked how it was incorporated into their story and their struggles for their future, as well as the importance in their past.

I started this book because it’s one of the most popular gay sports romance stories which is a genre I love as well as a good friends to lovers story but I got very disappointed. This book is massively overhyped and very problematic in my opinion. My biggest problem with it is how misogynistic it is. There was not a single woman who was not reduced to a sexual object whether they were a side character or just some random encounter on the street. Their only purpose was to display how incredibly hot but entirely uninterested MC1 was. Also the image of women the two MCs discus is so misogynistic I was constantly rolling my eyes. It was moreover full of biphobia in a weird way. One of the MCs seemed very afraid to compete with both genders. For the writing style I needed some time to get into but could get used to it at some point. I found the love story of the MCs kind of cute, but the rest of the book was so problematic I am going to avoid these authors in the future.

[𝕦𝕟𝕓𝕖𝕫𝕒𝕙𝕝𝕥𝕖 𝕎𝕖𝕣𝕓𝕦𝕟𝕘] 𝕋𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕝: Him 𝔸𝕦𝕤 𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝔽𝕖𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕧𝕠𝕟: Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy 𝔾𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕖𝕟 𝕒𝕦𝕗: Englisch ℚ𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟: Do you like hockey-romance? 𝕋𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕖 (𝕠𝕣 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖) 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕠𝕜: Stunning - Lovely - HeartTouching 𝕀𝕟𝕙𝕒𝕝𝕥: Jamie Canning hat nie verstanden, wie er seinen besten Freund verloren hatte. An einem Tag waren sie noch enge Freunde und am nächsten Tag hat Ryan Wesley ihn aus seinem Leben gestrichen. Vier Jahre später stehen die beiden wieder voreinander und Wes weiß, dass er Jamie eine Entschuldigung schuldet. Aber wie soll er seinem Jugendfreund erklären, dass das betrunkene Herummachen für ihn eine ganz andere Bedeutung hatte als für Jamie? 𝕄𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕖 𝕄𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕦𝕟𝕘: Oh meine Götter! Wieso lag dieses Buch so lange auf meinem SuB? 🤯 Das hatte es definitiv nicht verdient, denn das Buch ist sehr toll. Ganz viel Herzschmerz, Selbstzweifel und zuckersüße Momente zwischen zwei Hockey-Spielern. Was will man mehr? Genau: Noch atemberaubende Charaktere. Und die gibt's hier oben drauf. ❤️ Sowohl Jamie als auch Wes sind richtig toll beschrieben und die Dynamik zwischen den beiden ist einfach grandios. Für mich hat hier das ganze Paket gestimmt. Ich habe das Buch innerhalb von zwei Tagen verschlungen und konnte es einfach nicht weg legen. 😍 𝕃𝕖𝕤𝕖𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕗𝕖𝕙𝕝𝕦𝕟𝕘? 🫶🏻👍🏻 Von mir gibt's eine Leseempfehlung für alle (Gay)Romance-Leser. Short english review below ⬇️ 𝔼𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕃𝕚𝕔𝕖𝕪 ☘️ ➡️ oh my gods! I don't know why I haven't read this sooner. 🤯 It's so good! I love those boys and their relationship. Wes with his cocky smile and Jamie the laid back Cali-boy. This book is full of heartbreaking moments, self-doubt and cuteness. I've read the entire book in two days and enjoyed it very much. 🫶🏻 I can totally recommend this book.

Ich bin irgendwo über diese Reihe gestolpert und habe sie super spontan gekauft. Und ich bin wahnsinnig froh darüber, denn diese Geschichte war richtig gut!🤭 Es war schon seeehr spicy, aber gleichzeitig auch so schön? Ich kann überhaupt nicht erklären, warum die Geschichte mich so emotional abgeholt hat, aber das hat sie! Ich konnte es einfach nicht weglegen und hab es durchgesuchtet. Und das es eine männliche bisexuelle Repräsentation gab, macht das ganze nochmal besser!

Desire is chemistry. And in a biochem class I took once, they taught us that all chemistry is just electricity. We’re all just bags of charged atoms walking around bumping into each other. It took me a while to get into this book but it was quite an enjoyable read. Wes and Jamie were interesting characters and I love that Jamie acknowledged his bisexuality. However, I expected more conflict because of Wes’ parents. Compared to other books (*cough*[b: The Kiss Quotient|36199084|The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)|Helen Hoang|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1527983633s/36199084.jpg|57828311] *cough*) the sex scenes were incredibly well written. And contrary to other couples, they actually had chemistry! There was no insta-love, on the contrary, they actually knew each other very well because they spent so many years together at camp. Adding to that, the subplot about their hockey career was actually interesting. I think their voices sounded quite similar though and I often had to check whose POV I’m reading.

„My life has been a chaotic for as long as i can remember, and I always dealt with it alone. […] But for six weeks every summer, i didn‘t have to be alone. I had Jamie, my best friend, my rock.“ Damn, I loved it. I was hooked from the start. It‘s such a great story about lifetime friendship, forgiveness, about the question of what love means & just utter adorable! I loved jamie’s character, such a confident but sweet boy, all about exploring and don’t give a shit about whether it’s a men or not. All what matters was Wes to him as a Person. It made my heart swell of how much trust they gave each other. Also, how he acted with the kids, especially with this one young lad. Jamie’s Family is incredible! Made me a bit emotional at the ending. I liked Wes too, closed off a bit, but always in care for the people he likes and loves. I would say the spice level is about 3/5. I really enjoyed reading this book & I’ll definitely read the sequel!

I never thought that I would be able to read a book about hockey. But many friends told me that „him“ was so gorgeous and if I start I’m not capable to lay it down. They were right. This is a story about two guys who were friends for years. They met every summer for 6 intensive weeks in summer Hockeycamp. When suddenly Wes is getting apart of Jamie and he was wondering what has happened. Ok, things went a bit weird after the last night at hockey camp when they were eighteen. It was only a little drunken foolishness and nobody dies. But Wes know that Jamie is very straight and he isn’t. More of it, Wes is deeply in love with Jamie and didn’t want to tell him. Than they met again and after a look at his longtimecrush Wes know he can’t get off his way. Jamie want to discover if only one night of sex can ruin a friendship. If not, how about six more weeks of it? In this summer Jamie is going to learn a lot about himself.

My rating might be a bit biased as this is my second time reading it and I have also read the sequel "Us" but I just love Wes and Jamie. About a year ago Him was my first mm romance ever and I couldn't have wished for a better couple than Wes and Jamie. I love their friendship, I love their relationship and how passionate they in everything, especially each other, as well in their sports. I really liked how most people treated their relationship as normal because that is exactly how it should be. Love is love. The authors created a story full of love, friendship and romance which makes you swoon as well as laughing about several funny scenes.

5 Jahre sind bereits vergangen, seit die Anwältin Sutton Simmons ihrem Klienten Harvey Price vor Gericht den Allerwertesten rettete. Als die Beiden nach langer Zeit wieder aufeinandertreffen, muss Sutton mitanhören, dass Harvey wieder in krumme Geschäfte verwickelt ist. Er ist dabei, sich mit den ganz Großen eines Drogenkartells anzulegen. Doch was für viele Grund genug ist das Weite zu Suchen, ist für Sutton ein Anreiz. Die Anziehungskraft, welche schon vor Jahren zu spüren war, scheint immer noch nicht erloschen zu sein. Auch wenn es ein Widerspruch in sich ist, steht Sutton Harvey zur Seite, während sie gleichzeitig für Recht und Ordnung kämpft. Wow. Was für ein Auftakt! Ich bin sehr froh, dass Teil 2 schon sehr bald erscheinen wird, denn ich bin schon sehr gespannt, wie es mit den Beiden weitergeht. Der Klappentext verrät schon sehr viel über den Inhalt des Buches. Die Protagonisten finden schon zu Beginn des Buches zusammen und die Entwicklung ihrer Liebe ist wirklich schön zu lesen. An Spannung fehlt es definitiv nicht. Das Buch handelt von Liebe, Erotik, Drogen, Machenschaften, Gerechtigkeit und Familie. Es ist abwechselnd aus der Sicht beider Protagonisten geschrieben, sodass man sich sehr gut in beide hineinversetzen kann und die Absichten jedes Einzelnen verständlich sind. Die Gefühle und auch die erotischen Inhalte werden von der Autorin bildhaft beschrieben. Der Schreibstil im Allgemeinen ist flüssig, leicht verständlich, spannend, bildhaft und einfühlsam.