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Blurb
Micah
I’m a broke ex-football player with a bum leg and PTSD. Last summer, I had two choices: the streets, or find a cheap room to rent in the city. I chose the second option, which landed me with a brand-new problem, cos I hadn’t banked on my roommate becoming my best friend. Or that before long I’d find myself head over heels in love with him. Trouble is, even if Sam likes me back, I ain’t fit to be no one’s boyfriend. I don’t know how. All I do is wade through every precious moment and hope that he doesn’t regret the day he ever met me.
Sam
I’m a gay book nerd with no business falling in love with hunky athletes. Micah is the dictionary definition of beautiful, inside and out, he just doesn’t know it. And he definitely doesn’t know I’m ridiculously in love with him. The embarrassing kind of love.
He’s all I can think about.
But it’s not as simple as loving someone who doesn’t love me back. Micah is damaged goods—at least, that’s how he’d put it. The world has chewed him up and spat him out, and he thinks he deserved it. That he’s still the battered mess he was a year ago.
I want to shake him, and shout in his face that he’s not. To force the truth on him and make him believe in himself the way I do. But I can’t save Micah. One day, perhaps he’ll realise that he already saved himself.
My Two Pennies' Worth
Well, this one was remarkable low on the angst considering who the author is. Saying that it's not a fluffy read but it's not a 'wrench your heart out of your chest and stomp on it' read either.
I pretty much devoured it in one day, a day, I might add, when I had an all day headache that nothing would shift. If that doesn't show you how invested I was in Sam and Micah's tale then nothing will.
Sam is sweet, an adorable displaced Yorkshire lad in love with his famous (and infamous) flatmate. Sam also has terrible self-esteem and, quite honestly, the patience of a saint. But he also has a tendency to jump to conclusions (see self esteem issues above).
Micah is a former 'footballer, cokehead, drunk, closeted Grindr user', who originally appeared in Lucky. After his (literal) fall from grace, he is living a quiet life in somebody else's spare room, with any number of (prescribed) pills to fix the demons in his head. He is a mess, carrying a torch for his roommate and just surviving not living; I loved him quite literally from the first page.
This book is one long 'big misunderstanding' trope (Sam, who is an English lit student, even jokes about this) but one that is believable because it is character driven. And these guys are real, broken people. Ones who don't always talk to each other, don't believe they are good enough, let outside influences affect their judgement and reactions.
Highly recommended.
Oh, and Garrett, I want to know what is going on with Freddie... Just saying.
Garrett's debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.
When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.
Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock site moonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.
Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
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