4.7 Stars
Nash and Ethan meet on the 2 subway train—Ethan can’t help but talk to the sexy grump in the seat next to him. And when he sees him again, he can’t help but poke the grumpy bear. To his surprise, Nash responds—even if he does keep retreating behind his newspaper. But Ethan doesn’t really think he stands a chance with a man like Nash who is obviously caviar to Ethan’s fast food. But when they start running into each other outside the subway, things take a turn.
‘“Am I naked?” I blinked, brought back to reality by his low chuckle of amusement. “Excuse me?”
“You’re staring at me, so either I’m naked”—he paused, and I sensed he had a flair for the dramatic—“or you’d like me to be.”’
“His eyes danced, and my heart stuttered. Oh, God. I’m going to fall in love with him.”
‘“I…I just…I just want you with me. Please, Ethan? I need someone who’s going to be there for me. Someone on my side.” Good-bye, heart. You belong to Nash now.’
This is a really fun, low angst, steamy, grumpy/sunshine mm romance. These two have the perfect grumpy/sunshine dynamic, and it gives them such an interesting journey from strangers on a train to lovers. Nash is so determined to not have a relationship or love in his life. Even though he’s attracted to Ethan from the start he refuses to let himself acknowledge it, yet he can’t quite stop himself from interacting with Ethan at least a little bit, and a little more, each time. Nor can he stop himself from looking forward to seeing Ethan each day. And Ethan doesn’t really have any hope of a relationship with Nash, but he can’t stop himself from trying anyway. I like how they are able to bond a bit through shared trauma from cheating, even if those things happened in different ways. There’s actually a lot going on in the lives of these characters—Ethan has ambitions in his career, an ex who is sort of stalking him, a family whose reaction to him when he came out scarred him a bit, and landlords who are more like the family he should have had. Nash has a father who left him as a child and now that they work for the same hospital seemingly wants to control his life, a step-mother who is younger than he is, and a co-worker he hooks up with who wants more now that his famous father is around. It’s a lot. Plus there is the wealth disparity between these two that doesn’t phase Nash but worries Ethan. It all works together so well to create obstacles and conflicts that amazingly do more to bring Nash and Ethan together than to tear them apart. I really liked that aspect of this story—with all of these issues there could have been a lot of angst, but there really wasn’t too much.
I loved the side characters too—Ethan’s co-workers and his landlords were great allys for him. Nash’s coworker who just refused to accept no for an answer and was determined to be his friend. And even Diane, Nash’s step-mother. She was so wonderful, and I loved her relationship with Ethan. Just lovely!
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