Blog Tour, Review and Giveaway: Just Bromantically Invested by Saxon James

Just Bromantically Invested By Saxon James

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Best friends-to-lovers, bi-awakening, naturist MC, found family

Released: October 17, 2024

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Accidental Love, Book 4

Length: 268 pages / 6 hrs, 15 mins (not available at Audible yet)

Cover Design: Story Styling Cover Design

Photo: Michelle Lancaster

Model: Tristan

Synopsis

Madden
My best friend is uptight, gorgeous, the greatest person I know … and I might be a smidge in love with him. Just a small amount. Barely worth the mention.

Which is a stupid choice on my part when the guy is straight.

Starting a landscaping company with him was the perfect mix of doing what I love and an excuse to spend time with him, only it hasn’t completely taken off yet and now he’s telling me he’s lonely.

Lonely.

Apparently having one friend in your life isn’t enough.

So I’m determined to help him find love. With someone other than me. Maybe if I can pull that off, it’ll mean my heart will finally get the message and move on.

Or finish breaking into a hundred pieces.

Same thing, right?

Penn
Being besties with an overenthusiastic, gold-hearted, nudist of a man is a challenge sometimes. Madden makes everything sunshine when he’s around.

The problem is that he hasn’t been around as much lately. We work together, sure, but he’s got his roommates and I have … no one. Just him. So I feel the distance acutely.

My one reassurance is that we have work tying us together, but when an old client calls with a proposition for us, it feels like our once solid friendship is unraveling fast.

He wants Madden to help him open a nudist resort, and if Madden’s doing that, he won’t be working with me.

I’m trying not to panic over the thought of losing him, which is a typical, common best friend reaction. Nothing out of the ordinary.

And neither is the way my body has been reacting to him lately.

Everything is totally, completely normal between us.
While there’s still an us at all.

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Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Funny and touching

I read the ebook of Just Bromantically Invested but then I had the pleasure of listening to the audio via my local library’s Hoopla site (as of this writing it’s not yet available on Audible). Teddy Hamilton did a fantastic job performing the audiobook. He’s a very popular narrator and audiobooks like this one are the reason why.

Friends-to-lovers is one of my favorite romance tropes and this one was great. There was just the right amount of angst and humor in this story. Madden has been a great secondary character in the previous books and his housemates are very supportive of him going au natural. Penn has been his best friend for several years but lately he’s been missing hanging out with Madden. He’s also fine with Madden’s nudity but then he starts having feelings…

Things get a bit complicated when Penn makes friends with a new female tenant who moves into his building. Madden encourages their friendship while also being jealous of Penn’s new relationship with her.

I have thoroughly enjoyed this series and I’m really looking forward to Xander’s story. He’s been an interesting and needy character throughout the series; it will be good to see him get his HEA.