The Bromance Zone

Slowly working through some of Lauren Blakely's books. Here's "The Bromance Zone"...

["Two great friends. One road trip. And eight inches ... of snow that night at the cabin.

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Friends don't bang friends.
I want my friends to stay in my life, especially that flirty, clever, outgoing best friend of mine.
It's a damn good thing Owen and I made a pact in college to never ever sleep together, or else I'd be tempted.
Trouble is, eight years later I've been wondering what his kisses taste like. And I've been curious if our chemistry would extend into the bedroom. If he might feel the same risky pull.
But I don't want to lose Owen, and history says there's no way a tryst between friends can end well.
So as long as I avoid the bedroom with him, I won't break that hard-as-steel rule.
Except the snow has other plans … 

The Bromance Zone is a deliciously flirty, red-hot sexy, friends-to-lovers MM romance about the charming guy next door who's sworn to never date a friend, the flirty hot nerd who's been secretly crushing on that friend forever, and one night snowed in in a cabin. This book comes fully equipped for your reading pleasure with sexy banter, a super awkward dinner party, and a scene in front of a fireplace that proves just how dangerous the friend zone is!"]

I usually don't add that last part in the blurbs in my posts, but it's that last part that sold me on the book.

I accidentally read parts of this book like a writer/editor instead of a reader. Therefore, I thought some paragraphs could lose the last line or two. Or a few things were just repetitive...or a little too cheesy, bordering into the cringe (coming from me, that's a lot).

From what I gathered, a lot of the characters in this book were in other books/serieses from Lauren (but I'm in a very M/M mood and just skipped a lot of her books/serieses that were M/F...fight me), but I didn't necessarily feel like I was missing out on a lot. Sure, it would have been cool to know their stories, but I'm a woman on a mission over here. Speaking of missions: TJ's book(s) come out this summer, and I can't wait. :) 

ANYway! This book was really, really fun and cute. They were just like "whelp, I'm in love with him now, oh well, might as well get to the sexy times and do the actual feelings-talk another time". There wasn't a lot of angst, except for that internal "omg, does he like me back?" stuff, which they resolved pretty quickly compared to other books (because well, they did talk--after a little awkward Friendsgiving dinner).

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