Gabby's Reviews > Top Secret

Holy shit I loved this. I thought I would love this book because this author combo wrote my favorite M/M romance of all time, Him, but then I was scared to read it because I found out it follow two frat guys and well, I'm not a huge fan of frat guys and frat houses and I couldn't care less about them but.... I'M OBSESSED?????

This story follows Keaton, who is a football player jock who has a girlfriend that wants a three-way for her birthday. He downloads a popular dating app where he starts chatting with another guy, who he doesn't know is one of his Frat brothers, Luke. Luke is not only one of his Frat brothers, it's the guy he is running against to be Frat president and he can't stand. So we got hate to love romance, and forbidden romance, two of my favorite tropes all in one in this book. I also love in romances when two characters fall in love without really knowing who exactly the other is and then it's revealed and it's too late to stop the feels because they already caught FEELS, you know what I mean? It also has another one of my favorite tropes: a character who thought they might be straight exploring their sexuality and realizing they are probably not. Anyways...

I adored Luke and Keaton so much in this book but ESPECIALLY LUKE BECAUSE WOW. Luke knows he's bisexual and he comes from a very ridiculous, obnoxious poor family who tries to squeeze every dime out of him, and he's a stripper who is studying finance. Keaton is quite the opposite, he's lived a very privileged life with a wealthy family, but his Father has too high of expectations for him and expects him to run the family business, but Keaton wants to study biology and marine life. Both of these characters feel so fleshed out and i honestly adored the shit out of both of them. I actually also really enjoyed seeing their competitiveness over the Frat presidency, I didn't think I would care about that but it was entertaining as hell and I had fun reading about it.

Their chemistry was freaking great, and I love the reveal scene of when they find out they have been talking to each other. This honestly gave me some Simon and Baz vibes from Carry On, probably because of the fact that they're basically roommates and the sexual tension is real, this is very slow burn, which I LOVE. (view spoiler)[That scene when Luke got arrested because of his stupid as fuck brother and Keaton got him the best lawyer and helped him out was some CUTE SHIT OK. I also loved Keaton's obsession with animal sex and always talking about lobsters lol he's so adorable. I love that Luke will always try to do the right thing when it comes to his family but it also breaks my heart because he deserves better but he still tries to help them because he's such a good fucking person. Ughhh. I also LOVE the fact that Keaton's parents are really supportive about him being with Luke at the end and his Dad offers Luke a job. That is some precious shit right there. (hide spoiler)]

I just loved it so so so so much and I'm so happy I did. These characters own my heart, okay?
Book #4 for Romanceathon is complete, and this is by far my favorite thing I've read so far for this readathon!