Red (House of Misfits #5)

Here's Cambria Hebert's "Red." It's the fifth novel in the House of Misfits series. Annd, who doesn't love a little fairy tale romance/retelling--even if I'm skipping around the series for the MM books. 

["I’m a cop. He’s a criminal.

We’re the human equivalent of oil and water.

Staying away from him would be the obvious answer. Too bad we share a one-bedroom apartment. It’s an unfortunate situation I didn’t choose but can’t do anything about. When my best friend, Earth, moved out, he offered his room to his big brother who had rolled into town from Korea to kill him… but then ended up saving him.

And now we’re all supposed to be one big happy family.

Except Daeshim is not my brother and never will be. And no one has any idea who I really am. For years, I’ve been Beau the hacker. Beau the agreeable, quiet one in the corner.

I am those things. But I’m also a cyber crimes specialist with the FBI.

Surprise!

My real identity is a secret no one can know. Because the second they find out who I really am, my cover will be blown, everything I’ve been doing will come to light, and the found family I desperately want will toss me on the street.

Or worse.

But Daeshim won’t stop staring, dissecting me with his perceptive dark eyes. I can’t stand him, yet the heavier his attention gets, the more I crave. The more I begin to wonder if I’m just nervous he will find out my secrets or somehow get into my heart.

I’m starting to crumble, the weight on my shoulders too much to hold alone. His stubborn, unruly presence challenges me, scares me, yet also somehow calms me.

When danger gets uncomfortably close, I realize the only one strong enough to save me is the very criminal I’m not supposed to trust."]

This was a whole other beast than Fletcher's book. There was much more at stake. There was a lot higher anxieties (well a different kind of anxieties).  I cried even more, too.

These two were explosive. And entirely codependent. But they were each other's safety, each other's home, each other's reason to fight the demons and get back up again. 

I wish there were more MM books in this series. It was the perfect balance of fairy tale, insta-love, angst, spice (ohhh that spice).

Trigger Warnings: mentions of off-page child abuse, violence, anxiety representation, and more.

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