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A great read

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-04-23

I have loved every book in this series so far and I was really excited to read this one and see where the series was going. This was just such a fun read and I really enjoyed being back in this universe.

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A very fun read

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-08-22

This book was just so much fun to read. I’m really invested in these characters and their story and i’m so excited to learn more about them. This was such a fun start to the series and I will be continuing it for sure because I just wanna know more about these characters and their lives.

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A wonderful reading experience

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-09-22

This book was so much fun to listen to. The audiobook of this book was just such a wonderful reading experience for me. I listened to this one while doing my everyday life things and listening to this book just made my day better. This book was just such a wonderful listening experience and I just really enjoyed it.

I also love a good friends to lovers. And this one was the perfect example of everything I love in a friends to lovers book. I loved how well they knew each other and how clear it was that they actually were best friends. I loved how well the book established their relationship and I loved seeing them turn their friendships into love. This was just the sweetest progression for me and it made for such an enjoyable friends to lovers. This book was just so cute and such a sweet reading experience and it melted my entire heart.

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Such a lovely story.

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 06-01-22

The audiobook for this book was absolutely brilliant. It really did a good job at bringing the story to life and it was everything I wanted it to be. I feel like this audiobook was just so engaging and a lot of fun to read. It complements the book super well and it enhances the reading experience of the book, which was already pretty much perfect to me. I have always loved reading this book and somehow the audiobook makes it even nicer a reading experience for me

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When I say I want a sweet and fluffy book that provides me with a boatload of comfort and still has some conflict and some very emotional moments even if it’s a lower angst book, I mean this book, this book is everything I have ever wanted in a book.

Brief summary
There is an event on the Cuffd website where daddies can write letters saying what they want in a boy and boys can reply to them if they are interested. Ben who is a daddy writes a letter. Jayden, a boy, replies to him and they fall in love.

First, I loved the two main characters in this book so much. Ben was one of my favourite daddy that I have ever read about in a book. He was exactly the kind of daddy I want in a book. He wasn’t perfect, he had flaws and a believable personality that made him really endearing and he was also super sweet, he was super caring, the way he always took care of Jayden and his needs made me so happy, he always praised his boy, he was super attentive and receptive to his boy’s needs and wants, but he was also firm enough to make sure that he helped his boy and guided him towards things that are good for him. He was an all-around lovely daddy and I absolutely adored his character. And I absolutely loved Jayden too. He was so precious and sweet. He was such a super lovely character to read about and I really loved him.

Second, I don’t think I have enough words in my vocabulary to say how much I loved the relationship between the two main characters. It was so romantic and definitely made my heart melt, at many occasions. I just loved how these two always listened to each other and did things to make the other feel better. I loved how they always reassured the other when it was needed. I loved how they took care of each other at any time. I loved how they showed how much they love each through their every move, it was so lovely to see. Jayden had bad relationships that made him feel bad about himself before and I loved how Ben always took the time to show and tell Jayden how lovely and worthy he is. Everything about the relationship these two had was super lovely and everything I want to read about in a book.

Side note, I really appreciated every side character in the book and I thought that they really helped make the book lively and gave it such a good friendly vibe, the cast of characters in this book was really superb to me. Special mention to Jude, whom I really hope gets his book soon because I just love him so much.

Third, I really enjoyed the vibe of this book. I’m a big fan of hurt/comfort in books and the way it was done in this book was very delightful. This book talks a lot about heavier topics like the effects of being a soldier and the loss of an arm while being on duty, PTSD and the effects of it, assault, a parent who’s in a coma, abandonment issues and insecurities, but it was more focused on the comfort part and how people can comfort each other when living with those things. The way everything was shown really worked for me. I really enjoyed the vibe of this book, it was a nice mix of super sweet scenes and more angst-filled scenes and it really worked for me.

Special mention to how the book presented those topics too. Ben was in the military and he lost an arm during duty and I really liked how the book showed what that did to him and how his life was because of that event, that really worked for me and I loved reading about it. And also I really appreciated how PTSD was shown in this book, I really appreciated how it was represented and it felt realistic to me, I don’t have PTSD, but it felt very close to what I know about it and it really worked for me. I liked how the book didn’t shy away from showing the effects of PTSD and what it did to the characters who have it.

Fourth, this book was on the longer side and it really worked for me. I loved how we got to see everything build up over time and the relationship development was wonderful, I loved how their relationship developed and grew over the book, it was lovely to read about. Also, I really enjoyed how they met on the dating app, then met up really early in the book and had a date and then kept going on dates and learnt to get to know each other, that format really worked for me, I liked how it was straight forward but also worked very well at developing their relationship and their connection.

Fifth, I absolutely loved everything about how the kink was done in this book. Also, Jayden has a praise kink and I just loved how it was done, Ben kept praising him and telling him how lovely he is and it was just the sweetest thing. The age play was so damn sweet and I really enjoyed how it was portrayed in the book, it was all about comfort and how they can make each other feel good, loved and cared for and it really worked for me. I loved how they both were so into cuddles and how they always cuddled, it was so damn sweet. I loved Jayden’s love for his stuffed animals and how he has a lot of them, I also have tons of stuffed animals that I all love and cherish so I love seeing main characters who collect stuffed animals and who play with them, it’s just so sweet to me.

Special mention to the sex scenes in this book because god damn, those were scorching hot.

Also, special mention to Ben, who didn’t know if he was into age play before they got together but who listened to Jayden tell him what he loves and who never judged him for what he likes. I loved how Ben listened to what Jayden enjoyed and then took time to think and talk to other people who are into age play to understand it better and then he experimented with Jayden to see if he is into the same things that Jayden is, it was so sweet and it really worked for me.

Colette Davison is an author that I have only read two books of, including this one, but don’t be surprised when I go back and read her entire backlist soon, because so far her books are exactly what I love in books and I’m very much loving them.

I received an ARC of this book, and this is my honest review.

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A wonderful experience

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-29-22

I re-read this one as an audiobook because I enjoyed the book so much the first time I read it. This audiobook was just so fun and absolutely lovely to read. This audiobook was just such a wonderful time and I enjoyed it very much.

I enjoyed this one way more than I thought I would. Which is a testament to how much I enjoyed this book because this book is about a plot point that isn’t always my favourite in books and somehow this book made me love it. I just adored so much of this book and I had such a good time reading it. This book was so sweet and I really enjoyed that. I really enjoyed this book’s world too.

I just had a lot fun reading this book, this was just a really great reading experience for me.

**I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.**

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A very great story

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-19-22

I had so much fun listening to this one. I always listen to audiobooks as a way to distract myself when i’m doing other things and this one was just a lovely listening experience.

I listened to this one because it seemed like it would be veey steamy and I was really looking for that, and this book hit all of my buttons on that front. This book was just so hot and I enjoyed every seconds of it.

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Such a lovely story

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4 out of 5 stars
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Reviewed: 05-03-22

The audiobook of this one was just so good. I loved how much the narrator gave life to the characters and how great they sounded. This audiobook was just lovely and it really worked for me.

I just really enjoyed this one. This book was exactly what I wanted to read at this moment in my life and it just really worked for me. Everything about this book was just clicked for me and really worked for me. Reading this book was just a very good time and I really appreciated every seconds I spent reading the book. This one is the case of reading the right book at the right time and damn did it work for me at this time.

If I had one thing to say it’s just that i’m not the biggest fan of stories involving a lot of side characters and I felt like those plot points overshadowed the romance a little, I just would have prefered to see more cute couple moments between the main characters instead.

**I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.**

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A very entertaining read

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-03-22

The narration of this book was so much fun to read. This book just had me from the first part and never lost me. This one was just so enjoyable and a big reason for that is the narration that was absolutely wonderful. This book was such a joy to listen to.

This book was just such a good time to read for me and I enjoyed it so much. I loved so much about this book and I had the best of time listening to it.

**I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.**

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A very entertaining read

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-02-22

I had such a good time listening to this book. I love listening to audiobooks when I’m taking notes for university and this one was the exact kind of distraction I was looking for. This audiobook was just very enjoyable, and I had a very good time listening to it.

As far as the story goes, I really enjoyed this book too. This was so sweet, and I really appreciated it. This book just really worked for me, and it was everything I wanted it to be.

Eli is trying to have a drag career, but he doesn’t have much money, so he finds a second job. He happens to be working with Tristan, his brother’s best friend. They start hanging out together and they go on many dates and end up falling in love with each other.

This book was so fun to read, I liked how this book had a full-sized cast of characters and how they were all important and mattered to the plot. Most importantly, I really enjoyed reading about Eli and his brother Richard, they didn’t really like each other at first and I liked reading their interactions throughout the book.

I loved seeing all of the interactions between Tristan and Eli and how they bound together. I just had so much fun reading about all the time they spent together. They always seemed to appreciate being with each other and they always seemed to have a good time together and it was so much fun to read about it. I really enjoyed how they bounded over a period of time consisting of them hanging out together and I loved seeing all of the times they hung out together, that was so much fun for me.

Also, the steamy scenes in this book were just so good and I absolutely loved them.

I just had so much fun listening to this book and I really enjoyed it. This book was just everything I wanted it to be and I really loved it.

**I received a copy of this book, and this is my honest review.**

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A very entertaining read

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-15-22

I really enjoyed this one, I had a really good time reading it and the audiobook was absolutely lovely too, it was just so great and I enjoyed every seconds I spent listening to this one.

Second chance romances are one of my favourite trope in books and I just loved how this one was done, it was everything I love and want out of the trope.

*I received an ARC of this book, and this is my honest opinion.*

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