The Sunny Side (The Model Agency #1)

I meant to read this as soon as it came out last week, but I guess now is better than never. ;) This being Lily Morton's latest series The Model Agency. The first book is titled "The Sunny Side."

["Jonas Durand is successful, rich, and controlled. He owns a prestigious modeling agency and has the world at his fingertips, but a turbulent childhood has taught him to be focused and never deviate from a plan.

Dean Jacobs threatens that stance. He’s one of the world’s most sought-after supermodels, but he’s also laidback and lighthearted and free in a way that Jonas has never quite managed.

Dean has always been interested in Jonas and has never made any secret of his admiration, but from the beginning, Jonas put him in a neat little box labelled, “Don’t touch,” turned the key, and never looked back.

However, the universe seems determined to thwart Jonas’s plans. Over the course of one hot summer, the two men come together, and Jonas’s well-ordered life becomes something a whole lot wilder.

Moving from the glamorous worlds of London and Paris Fashion Weeks to the sleepy South of France, Jonas finds himself liberating partridges, chasing his supermodel, and falling in love."]

I remember Dean as being a himbo model with...certain....okay, so he was easy. But he's sooooo much more than that. He's kind and caring and just wants to make everyone happy. He wants to be safe and to feel wanted. He's just wholly misunderstood.

Wellllll, Jonas understands him (and vice versa) more than almost anyone. He wants to be more than just cold and collected. He wants to take care of someone and be taken care of. He wants so much, but he's afraid to want it.

They were perfect. This was perfect. It was a really great mix of sunny and sweet and angsty and adorable. And steamy. ;)

Plus! Jude and Asa along with Cadan and Mal were in here! It was glorious and sassy and just perfect.

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