Kimberly Gardner

Oh, I am so weak! *g*

I finished the book last night. Yeah, the book I said was a wall-banger. The book that made me mad enough that I wanted to slap the hero. The book I said just yesterday that I would not finish.

No way. Uh-uh. Not me. Not going to do it.

Well …

So I said I was weak. Lol!

And just in case you were wondering, like I was, there is a HEA. Hero B did indeed take Hero A back after much angst and suffering on both their parts as well as some smokin’ hot, angry, this-doesn’t-mean-anything fucking. That part was awesome btw.

Though I’m not sure I totally bought into the HEA for this couple.

Oh sure, after all that suffering they deserved to be happy. And I had to applaud Hero B’s capacity to forgive even if it took like a dozen chapters of the aforementioned angsting to get him there.

I’m just not sure it’ll last. Good thing these guys are a fictional couple who don’t have to last beyond the last virtual page, though as a reader I like to be able to imagine the couple going on together after the current story is finished. I want to imagine them growing old together and being just as hot for each other as they were that first time they did the horizontal mambo.

I can’t see that for these guys.

It’s the betrayal thing, you know?

Hero A did indeed get fucked by his best friend and old fuck buddy and Hero B did indeed find him in the act and do the subsequent freaking out over the betrayal. And as a result his trust in Hero A was severely dinged.

Thus the reason it took twelve plus chapters for them to reunite.

But in the back of my mind, as a reader and as a woman who has had serious relationships, I really don’t know if, once that trust has been violated, whether I could get past it.

Probably just a me thing because I know many, many couples survive that kind of betrayal every day and some even grow stronger as a result. I just don’t know if I could which inevitably colors my reaction to the HEA ending of this book.