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Narrated by:
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Dan Calley
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By:
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Garrett Leigh
About this listen
Falling for his roommate gives ex-footballer Micah the second chance he deserves, and what could be better than loving your best friend?
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, because 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 realize that he already saved himself.
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- choccygrl
- 06-06-20
Excellent British romance
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.
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.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Properkook
- 02-05-21
Enlightening
It's not often that I'm lost for words, but this story, whilst very good, was almost hard to listen to. The mental health issues I can relate to only not as severe. It's good that mental health issues are being brought to light, it shows that anyone can have them at any time. It just made the story harder to listen to and enjoy from the very start.
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