I’ve got to be honest… this was a great story but I kind of wanted to throw my ereader when I got to the end. Please don’t stop reading as I really do have very good things to say about this book.

I loved Sean and Peter. This is a standalone story but Peter was also in book one, After Ben, and I really, really wanted to see him get a happy ending. He’s such a caring and giving man so when a friend asks him for a favor, he doesn’t say no even though he really wants to. This is how he ends up going to visit Sean to see if he’s OK.

Sean is not OK – the blurb gives you the details. The house where Sean grew up is filled to the brim with stuff – boxes and boxes and stacks and stacks of paper; his father was a hoarder. This aspect of the story really hit home with me because I have a loved one who is in danger of tipping over into the hoarder category.

The story is so rich in detail about everything – the descriptions of where Sean’s childhood home is made me want to visit there – and the character writing is great. I enjoyed visiting with people from book one and I loved how Peter and his father finally got together to talk.

If you’re still reading, thank you. So why did I want to throw my ereader? Because of the abrupt ending to the book. I had the same complaint with book one but I think book two hit me even harder. I fully admit that I’m one of those readers who almost always wants more after a favorite book ends but really, this one just stopped way too abruptly.

Yes, the major issue of Sean’s childhood home was resolved and we pretty much know that Sean and Peter end up together so I guess there is a HFN (happy for now). But really? Would it have been too much to ask for just a tiny bit more in the way of even a short epilogue?

It’s a credit to Con Riley’s writing that I still want to read the next book in this series. If the writing wasn’t so good, I don’t think I’d want to read more books by the author. Book three is about Aiden and I’m excited to read it and see if we also get some more of Sean and Peter.

In her author’s note, Con Riley indicates that she will be publishing a fourth book in this series later this year and that characters from the first three books will appear; I hope that will satisfy my need to know more about Peter and Sean as well as Ben and Morgan from book one.

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