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I’m the first one to tell you I have issues.
Trust issues.
Family issues.
Probably a few others I haven’t discovered yet. Which is why I prefer to keep my life as simple and uncomplicated as possible.
Until him.
Blake McAdams barrels into my life and refuses to leave. He’s relentlessly optimistic, sexy as hell, annoyingly persistent, and… wants to be friends? Because… he thinks I’m interesting?
Yeah, I’ll pass. Thanks.
Only, somehow, we end up doing just that.
And then that friendship evolves into something more, and suddenly, I find myself navigating a completely foreign territory: a relationship.
But Blake has his own issues, and once those clash with mine my simple and uncomplicated life? Turns into anything but.
Rating: A
I’ve read and enjoyed several of Briar Prescott’s books, but this one, I outright loved . Until You is the first in a new series, and it’s a emotional, touching and heartfelt slow-burn love story about a young man whose life takes an most unexpected turn after a single, momentous decision brought the life he’d known to an abrupt end and set him on a different path. It’s a compelling read – funny, insightful, heartbreaking and sexy – and I couldn’t bear to put it down.
If seventeen-year-old Jude could change just one thing about his life, it would be his parents’ wanderlust. They adore him and he loves them to bits, but he’d like to stop moving around so often and have the chance to put down some roots and make some friends he can keep. As there’s only a year or so to go until he leaves for college, they’ve promised him no more moves before then, so when he overhears them talking about moving on again, he’s confused, hurt and upset. Then a few of the other things they’d said filter through and he starts to wonder what they could have meant. Could he have been adopted? When he tells his best friends, Blair and Steph, about it, Blair suggests he get one of those mail order DNA tests and decide on the next step once he’s got the results.
Fast forward several years, and we catch up with Jude, who is living in NYC and making a living doing lots of different temporary jobs – bartending, waiting tables, delivering food. It can be a bit chaotic at times, but it suits him and he’s… content. No ties, no strings – which is the way he likes his personal life, too; casual hook-ups are fun, they scratch an itch, and best of all, they’re safe. After all, “Nobody can hurt you if you won’t let them close enough.”
Jude meets Blake McAdams at a party where they end up getting locked out on the rooftop where Jude had been planning a private party with the bottle of gin he swiped from the bar. He’s immediately attracted to Blake, who is absolutlely gorgeous and more than up to Jude’s weight in the verbal sparring stakes. They banter back and forth, and even talk about themselves a bit – not something Jude normally does – and he’s is most definitely up for more, but Blake says outright that he’s not going to sleep with him – which is… disappointing. Before Jude can become too mortified at barking up the wrong tree, the door to the roof smashes open and they’re told to get back downstairs. It’s probably just as well – Jude was starting to like Blake and to like who he was around a genuinely nice guy – and he doesn’t do that. After a quick farewell, he gets the fuck out of there.
When Jude gets home, he’s dismayed to find that he’s lost his watch. He panics – it was a gift from his father and he can’t lose it, he just can’t. He looks everywhere he can think of, even goes back to the club where the party was, but it’s not there. Miserably, he resigns himself to the fact that the watch is gone for good – but the next day, he gets a phone call from an unknown number – it’s Blake. He found a watch with a phone number on the strap and wants to meet up to return it.
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