Something Borrowed By Lily Morton, Performed by Joel Leslie
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM
Tropes: Best friends-to-lovers, only one bed, second chance
Released: July 24, 2024
Publisher: Self-Published
Series: Confetti Hitched, Book 2
Length: 8 hrs, 18 mins / 77,000 words approx.
Cover Design: Natasha Snow Designs
Stan has never let his blindness hold him back, but he’s beginning to realise his love life is keeping him from moving forward.
He can’t remember a time when he wasn’t in love with his best friend. Rafferty is everything to him—his partner in crime, his confidante, and the person who understands him best. But Rafferty is incapable of reciprocating Stan’s feelings.
As a successful wedding planner, Rafferty is passionately committed to helping newlyweds begin their happily-ever-afters, but after a rootless childhood he’s equally determined not to seek his own. How can he trust in love and marriage when so many of his brides and grooms are repeat customers?
Stan is the glue that keeps the pieces of Rafferty’s life together, and as such Rafferty has always kept Stan safely in the friend box where he can’t lose him. However, lately that conviction has wavered and now Rafferty is bursting with complicated feelings for his best friend. The timing couldn’t be worse because Rafferty has realised he’s in love with Stan just as Stan is moving on.
From bestselling author Lily Morton comes a friends-to-lovers story about realising you have the perfect man when you’re on the brink of losing him.
This is the second book in the bestselling Confetti Hitched series, but it can be read as a standalone.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
Best friends-to-lovers!
Lily Morton’s stories never disappoint and Joel Leslie’s performance made this story even more special.
Best friends since childhood Stan and Rafferty belong together and everyone knows it. They know each other inside out but communicating their feeling isn’t something they do. Each of them secretly pines for the other but the lack of communication really messes things up.
This story had my feelings all over the place which is what I expect and love from a Lily Morton book. I loved how much Stan’s family supported Rafferty when he was young. I love how Rafferty didn’t hesitate to jump in and advocate for Stan when someone – usually Stan’s ex – tries to control him because they think his being blind makes him incapable of taking care of himself.
Stan’s boyfriend/ex-boyfriend is there to add conflict in the story and boy does he ever. He’s a real jerk and doesn’t want Stan to continue spending so much time with Rafferty. Just when things are looking up for Stan and Rafferty, Bennett pulls a trick designed to keep them apart.
There wasn’t anything I didn’t like about this book. It’s filled with Lily Morton’s trademark wit and snark. I’m looking forward to see what she comes up with next.
Performance: ♥♥♥♥♥
Story: ♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Scorcher
Available to borrow with Kindle Unlimited.
I moan despairingly when I see the time. “It’s ten o’clock. Oh god.”
“Is there a problem?”
Instead of answering, I tap a familiar number on my phone’s screen. “Come on, come on,” I mutter, pacing as I listen to it ring. “Climb off Lachlan’s dick and answer the phone.”
“Who are you talking to, sweetheart?”
The call connects. “What?” Joe says cautiously into my ear. I can’t begrudge him his air of worry.
“I need a favour.”
He groans. “Last time you said that we got fined for causing a public disturbance.”
“No, this time it’s really bad,” I whisper. “I need you, Joe.”
“Joe?” the man asks from behind me. “Who the fuck is Joe?”
“Who’s that?” Joe asks.
“No one,” I say over the insistent voice of the man who is now frowning at me—the man who appears to think we’re married.
“It doesn’t sound like no one,” Joe says, his voice rich with amusement as my bedmate paces the room and shouts about people who cheat.
“Well, it is,” I say in a quelling voice. “Joe, I’ve got the Hollis wedding today.”
“Yeah, I know. You’ll be fine.”
“That might be true if I’d gone to bed at an early hour in my own bed. Sober,” I add with emphasis.
“Oh god,” Joe says.
I walk back into the bedroom. “I know,” I whisper. “I woke up naked, and apparently, I’m now in some sort of a relationship I have no memory of agreeing to. I leave that sort of behaviour to you, mate.” Joe laughs. “This is serious,” I hiss. I look at my watch and groan. “The bride will arrive at the church in an hour.”
I look over at my bedmate, who’s joined me in the bedroom and is still frowning. I ask him, “I don’t suppose you have a spare morning suit hanging around?”
“I don’t know any dead people,” he snaps.
To celebrate the release of Something Borrowed, we are giving you a chance to win your choice of any book from Lily’s backlist! Three winners will be chosen!
Lily is a bestselling gay romance author. She writes love stories filled with heat and humour.
Lily lives in sunny England with her husband and two children, all of whom claim that they haven’t had a proper conversation with her since she bought her first Kindle.
She has spent her life with her head full of daydreams and decided one day to just sit down and start writing about them. In the process she discovered that she actually loved writing, because how else could she get to spend her time with hot, funny men!
She loves chocolate and Baileys and the best of all creations – chocolate Baileys!.
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