You Were Always the One by Hollis Shiloh

YouWereAlwaystheOneLGTitle: You Were Always the One

Author: Hollis Shiloh 

Genre:   Contemporary Romance

Length:  Novella, 104 pages

Publisher:  Dreamspinner Press (October 30th 2013)

Heat Level:  Mild

Heart Rating:  ♥♥2Hearts

Blurb:   Max struggled through every day in high school, especially when his hormones seemed to crave boys rather than girls. His best friend Mason and Mason’s younger brother Jamie made a bright spot in his teen life, until he confessed to Mason he was gay. Mason responded by ripping away all his joy, ending their friendship, and warning Max against seeing Jamie. Max is a policeman now, comfortable in his sexuality but private and wary, taking solace in his job and the friendship of his golden retriever, Alex. But the past he thought was behind him demands resolution when a prickly, wounded, shockingly sexy Jamie gets arrested, and Max comes to the rescue.

Product Link:  http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=4284

Reviewer:   Tams

Review:  Max and Mason were best friends when they were teenagers, along with Mason’s little brother Jamie. Max’s mother passed away when he was much younger and his father is emotionally absent, so Mason and Jamie’s family becomes his second family. Until Max realizes he likes boys not girls. Mason doesn’t take the news well and lashes out at Max, telling him to go away and stay away, and stay away from Jamie. And Max respected that. Now a grown man with a job as a policeman and a dog he loves. Everything is turned upside down when Jamie gets arrested.

Max takes Jamie in to keep him out of jail and out of trouble. Eventually Jamie ends up moving in to Max’s house and old feelings that both boys, now men, kept hidden resurface. But life, Jamie’s inability to make good decisions and Mason are all making it hard for Max and Jamie to make a go at any type of relationship. Add to that Mason’s refusal to be open about his and Jamie’s relationship, and Jamie’s need for him to and the future is looking pretty bleak for these two.  

The relationship between the two ML felt forced and fake. Max was always in turmoil over their age difference, which was only 3 years. And Jamie was written too bad cliché gay for my taste. I mean I loved the idea of two young guys that pined for each other getting another shot at love. But the way it played out on paper was choppy and unrealistic. Promising premise, sloppy execution. Sorry guys, this one just didn’t do it for me, but … to each his own, right!

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