Sunday, March 19, 2023

The Friendship Equation (Love Equations series #1)



Another accidentally-stumbled-upon book. I first found the third book, but let's try to stick to the correct order this time. ;) This is J.R. Gray's Love Equations series, and the first book is titled "The Friendship Equation."

["I never thought I’d go to college a virgin, but unless something changes, and fast, that’s what’s going to happen. In comes Harden Hart, my All American boy-next-door best friend with an offer to help in a way I’d never imagined.

The boy who turned everything he touched to gold had a filthy side to him I’d never seen. Oh, and did I mention he’s straight?

We could keep this fun but we had to hide it from both our fathers. We could smile for the cameras, focus on winning the state swimming championship and maintain Harden’s image. Easy enough, right?

Only Harden didn’t want to hide. His addiction to our not-so-private hook-ups put everything at risk with his father’s planned presidential run, and I risked losing my best friend if anyone found out.

But the biggest risk of all—the risk of breaking my own heart by falling for someone who was never mine to begin with.

Maybe love just isn't in the equation."]

Tropes: childhood best-friends-to-lovers, bi awakening/bi-for-you, forbidden romance, sports romance, and more

This book went from 0 to 60 reeeaaallllll quick. Like one second, they're best friends, then they're flirting hard core and foreplay-ing, and then they're head-over-heels in love (spoiler. alert.). But it was beautiful! It was so sweet and so steamy and so fun! There was some angst (not between them--family stuff and coming out and future talk). But, like 99% of the books in this genre, there was a very sweet happily ever after.

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