Gideon (Finding Home #3)

As promised, here's me binge-reading through yet another author. This time, we have Lily Morton's Finding Home series. The third novel is titled "Gideon."

["Gideon Ramsay is so far in the closet he should be a talking faun.

A talented, mercurial, and often selfish man, Gideon has everything he should want in life. Fame, money, acting awards – he has it all. Everything but honesty. At the advice of his agent, Gideon has concealed his sexuality for years. But it’s starting to get harder to hide, and his increasingly wild behaviour is threatening to destroy his career.

Then he’s laid low by a serious illness and into his life comes Eli Jones. Eli is everything that Gideon can’t understand. He’s sunny tempered, friendly, and optimistic. Even worse, he’s unaffected by grumpiness and sarcasm, which forms ninety percent of Gideon’s body weight. And now Gideon is trapped with him without any recourse to the drugs and alcohol that have previously eased his way through awkward situations.

However, as Gideon gets to know the other man, he finds himself wildly attracted to his lazy smiles and warm, scruffy charm that seem to fill a hole inside Gideon that’s been empty for a long time. Will he give in to this incomprehensible attraction when it could mean the end of everything that he’s worked for?"]

This had some serious potential to get A LOT more angsty and heartbreaking than it was, and I'm really grateful that Lily kept it less dramatic than it could have gotten. It was perfect just the way she wrote it.

Gideon is a grump, and Eli is the sunshine. Except, Gideon finds it really had to not be happy around Eli, and Eli realizes that Gideon is bored and unchallenged and completely and utterly lonely. They make each other's life brighter and happier, and there's this trust there that developed so naturally and so easily.

Compared to some of her other novels, there wasn't as much on-page, spelled-out sexual scenes, but there was sooooooo much fucking fluff. So much fluff. It was like a warm little Cornish summer day with flowers and jam and tea and laughter. I'm honestly, really jealous; I don't even need the romance right now (I'll take it sure), but I really want a vacation similar to this.

Trigger Warning: homophobia, near-death-experiences, etc 

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