As promised, here's me binge-reading through yet another author. This time, we have Lily Morton's Finding Home series. The second novel is titled "Milo."
["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?"]
For having such a “hopeless crush,” it took Milo a loooooong time to realize that he loved Niall (spoiler alert). Like a long time. Whereas Niall— okay so maybe that’s so many spoilers. ;)
I think the timing of things could have been adjusted a bit to help flow better story-wise and emotion-wise. It was a little jerky in spots.
HOWEVER, the story and the character grow was amazing and beautiful. It was about overcoming your past and accepting that you’re not what others say you are. It was about loving someone and learning to love yourself along the way. It was about fighting for yourself and for those who need a little bit of back-up until they’re able to fight for themselves (and not having to do anything by yourself).
Trigger Warning: domestic violence
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