The idea of you being with anyone else drives me insane. And it’s all going to go to hell soon enough, but I can’t help it. If you haven’t read this book, or if you haven’t read this series then I highly recommend it. Although I love the Five Boroughs series as a whole, it’s uneven and while I enjoyed the writing, the friends to lovers trope, and the happily ever after this time out, I didn’t particularly care for. This book was so quote worthy and beautiful (how many times can I use that word?) I could go on and on about it. It can be difficult to review a book that is part of a series for a number of reasons, one of which is to do with how one feels about the other books. In the darkest part of the night, when I was raw and on edge, after the parties wound down and everyone else went home with a partner, that reality hit me hard. All he wanted was for someone to notice him for who he truly was and see past all his show of being a shallow ‘play boy.’ Val was that someone and it was just beautiful.Īnd when I was drunk and lonely and falling apart, Valdrin was the only one I needed. No one has loved me before.”Īshton as a main character broke my heart and made me feel all my feelings. I absolutely love when we can see the feelings for each other build and build until they realize their feelings. It’s not often that we get books that aren’t insta-love. The relationship between the main characters, Ashton and Val was so beautiful and real. He is definitely going on my list of awesome MM authors. This was my first ever Santino Hassell and I am so glad I finally picked up one of his books. Don’t get me wrong, I still really enjoyed this book, which is why it still received 4/5 stars. Concourse is the fifth book in a series that I haven’t read any other books of and that hurt my reading experience of this book. I really need to do better about checking if books are part of a series before requesting them. I actually think I shot myself in the foot with this one.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

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