Review: Just Bromantically Invested by Saxon James
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.
REVIEW:
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A cute, quirky friends-to-lovers romance from Saxon James. I enjoyed this installment in the Accidental Love series, if for nothing else, the cameos of past couples and characters. The story was just as much a personal growth journey for Madden and Penn as it was a romance.
I really liked the whole hidden feelings from Madden and the miscommunications early on in the story had me both cringing and laughing with second-hand embarrassment. But when Madden and Penn finally get things right, the rest of the story is effortless. The whole friends-to-lovers here feels almost insta-love in a way. They go from being best friends and once Penn has his sexual awakening, they just sprinkle in some intimacy and call it a day. I would have liked Penn to work through his sexuality more, especially since he jumped into bottoming no issues and no conversations.
In terms of characters, I adored Madden finding his passion and really thriving in it. I liked Penn’s journey to finding solid friendships and building his ‘found family’. The boys of Big Bertha are back and I am really, truly read for Xander. Or at least ready to learn why he is so adamantly against therapy and to see if Derek intervenes. Overall, Just Bromantically Invested was a wholesome addition to the series.
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