Book Reviews

Book Blurb

Once upon a time a brave knight rescued a young man. Unfortunately, he then spent the next few years bossing the young man around and treating him like a child.

Milo has been burying himself at Chi an Mor, hiding from the wreckage of his once promising career and running from a bad relationship that destroyed what little confidence he had. Niall, his big brother’s best friend, has been there for him that entire time. An arrogant and funny man, Niall couldn’t be any more different from the shy and occasionally stuttering Milo, which has never stopped Milo from crushing wildly on the man who saved him.

However, just as Milo makes the decision to move on from his hopeless crush, he and Niall are thrown into close contact, and for the first time ever Niall seems to be returning his interest. But it can never work. How can it when Milo always needs rescuing?

 

 

Content warning: There are descriptions of domestic abuse in this book.

 

Book Review

“That just for once Niall wouldn’t have to rescue me and take care of me, because we seem to be locked in these roles now and nothing will ever change.” ~ Milo

 

A young man with a difficult past and the man he’s crushed on since he was a boy are the heart of ‘Milo’, the second book in Lily Morton’s ‘Finding Home’ series. It was so easy to care for Milo when I first met him in Oz and Silas’s story. Here was this incredibly shy, seemingly vulnerable man with a hint of a stutter when he got nervous or upset. Watching Oz, in his role as “mentor”, or just being himself, really, help to bring out some of the sassy inside Milo was such a joy in the first volume. Seeing Milo and his relationship with Niall grow in this book, truly was a wonder.

 

Milo was a late-in-life baby for his parents so his brother, Gideon, is much older. That, combined with Gideon’s outgoing personality and status as a film actor, has led to them having an up-and-down sibling relationship. Seeing as Niall and Gideon have been close friends, along with Silas, since boarding school at the age of seven and… well, let’s just say Milo has had feelings for Niall for a long time. A childhood accident left Milo with a very bad stutter and he spent years working with speech therapists and counselors to combat it. Unfortunately, a poor choice of partner in Thomas, a controlling, self-absorbed, 100 percent, grade-A a**hole, shattered all of Milo’s confidence. The fact that Niall was the one to rescue him from that situation and bring him home to Chi an Mor, Silas’s estate, is just one more “failing” on Milo’s internal list of things wrong with himself.

 

“Listen carefully, Niall, and really hear me. You care about people deeply, but you offset that with flippancy, so people don’t spot it immediately. And I know that if you were to upset someone it would wound you terribly. You could no more do that to Milo than you could cut off your own arm.” ~ Silas

 

Niall looks up one day and WHAM, all of a sudden, he’s struck by an unforeseen attraction to one of his closest friend’s (and occasional f*ck buddy) little brother. It literally comes out of the blue and Niall is quite lost for a while until he can figure out what to do about it. He’s always been quite happy with hookups and truly believed having just one person in his life wasn’t ever going to be for him. Watching this man brought to his knees by the fabulousness that is Milo was an honor and a true pleasure.

 

It takes these two men some time, with the resulting bumbling and fumbling around that can so often happen in a friends-to-lover trope, but this story is filled with a lot of heart. It also has quite a few laugh out loud moments, some very sexy times, and the fantastic dialogue I’ve come to expect from this author. Milo and Niall are definitely ones for my favorite couples list and I anticipate returning to reread them many times.

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook, print and audio
Length	Novel, 299 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date	15-February-2019
Price	$4.99 ebook, $14.99 paperback, $8.95 audiobook
Buy Link	https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NN13TCW