Release Week Review: Heart of Us by A.M. Arthur

25 January of 2019 by ButtonsMom2003

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

I loved reading more about my favorite triad.

Heart of Us By A.M. Arthur

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Released: January 23, 2019

Publisher: Briggs-King Books

Series: Us, Book 4

Synopsis

Charles “Chet” Greenwood has everything he’s ever wanted: a home, a stable business, and strong, loving relationships with his two boyfriends. In the year since he’s been with Cris and Jake, they’ve always agreed on one thing to keep their triad strong: communication is key. Which is why it hurts that lately Jake seems to be hiding something. Before Chet and Cris can find out what, a tragic phone call forces Chet and his nephew Dell to return to their Georgia hometown for a funeral—and to finally confront the bigoted family they left behind.

Jake Bowden never imagined he’d go from an exotic dancer to a professional cook in the space of a year, but here he is. He’s also secretly looking at top culinary schools, but the requirements are way beyond Jake’s abilities. And going to school could take him away from his boyfriends—which might actually be for the best. Chet and Cris have so much history together, are always in sync, and when Jake can’t get time off to support Chet, he feels even more like the odd man out.

Cris Sable knows something is going on with Jake, and he hates leaving Jake behind for two days to attend a funeral, but Chet and Dell need his support—especially with Dell’s own boyfriend unable to make the trip. Cris checks in with Jake constantly while they’re away, and even after their trio returns home, Cris knows something is still wrong. But it gets lost in the aftermath of an unbelievable secret reveal.

While in Georgia, Chet received shocking news about his own past that will change everything about his future, and it rocks their triad to its core. But Cris loves and believes in his men, and he will do everything in his power to keep their three hearts beating as one.

AUTHOR NOTE: This is an m/m/m romance with kinky three-way sex between consenting adults. The “Us” series is best read in numerical order.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

I loved reading more about my favorite triad.

I think there’s always a risk when an author continues to write stories in a series for a couple that has already gotten their HEA. Do you want to risk upsetting fans by writing a story with conflict and stress after the HEA? Is there a chance of just overdoing it with another story? I say that A.M. Arthur has done neither of these things with Heart of Us and I consider it a gift for her to have written such a moving and involved story for three of my favorite guys.

The blurb sets up everything you need to know about the book. I’m going to tell you that I never saw one of the things coming at all and the element it added to the story just enriched my enjoyment of this series. I wanted to reach out and hug these guys so much while reading this.

Heart of Us is a story that kept me engaged and glued to my ereader. It covers a lot of ground for the triad of Chet, Cris and Jake, but we also get to see more from Dell and Taro, too, not to mention two of my favorite characters from her Perspectives series, Bear and Richard.

I don’t know if this is the last book for the triad. A.M. Arthur certainly left a lot of room for more stories – not because of any cliffhanger, rather just by introducing more elements into this throuples life that I wouldn’t mind reading more about in the future.

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O Factor: Scorcher

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About Author

AM Arthur

A.M. Arthur was born and raised in the same kind of small town that she likes to write about, a stone’s throw from both beach resorts and generational farmland. She’s been creating stories in her head since she was a child and scribbling them down nearly as long, in a losing battle to make the fictional voices stop. She credits an early fascination with male friendships (bromance hadn’t been coined yet back then) with her later discovery of and subsequent love affair with m/m romance stories. A.M. Arthur’s work is available from Carina Press, Dreamspinner Press, SMP Swerve, and Briggs-King Books.

When not exorcising the voices in her head, she toils away in a retail job that tests her patience and gives her lots of story fodder. She can also be found in her kitchen, pretending she’s an amateur chef and trying to not poison herself or others with her cuisine experiments.

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