Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: April 10, 2023
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
When a sunny young musician gets stranded with a grumpy mechanic during a snowstorm, a lack of heat is the least of their problems…Thoughts on Daybreak: No lie, after meeting grumpy, heartsore Jasper in Emmett and Tai's book and seeing he had a chance at his own romance, I JUMPED on this. Because grumpy mechanics who are emotionally fragile are my thing, I guess.
Liam Luckett is on an adventure. He's dropped out of his Master's program without telling his overbearing parents and set off on a road trip across the country. Armed with little more than his guitar, he’s looking for his best life. He never expected his car to break down in the middle of nowhere Vermont with a huge storm pending, leaving him stranded and at the mercy of a hunky local mechanic.
Jasper Cunningham is in a holding pattern. Three years after the death of his husband, he still hasn’t moved on. A hot, younger, stranded tourist is exactly the sort of complication this mechanic has been avoiding. But he can’t leave the guy in the snow. He brings Liam home to crash on the couch. The air is heavy with more than snow, and when the power goes out, the two men become closer than either of them expects.
Every silken note Liam sings on that guitar thaws Jasper’s heart a little. Suddenly, Liam’s itchy feet aren’t so eager to move on. When their feelings get too big to ignore, the bond they’ve formed is tested. Will daybreak leave them going their separate ways?
Anywho. Jasper and Liam. Jasper's working his way through his grief and he's...well, he'd started to reach a turning point. Liam's presence sort of pushes him into taking a hard look at himself and his happiness a little faster than maybe he would have if left to his own devices. That said, Jasper really was trying to find the him that wasn't drowning even before Liam arrived in town. He was reaching the ready point, he just needed that little push.
As for Liam, he's trying to figure out things. Not his life, necessarily...no, wait. It's his life he's trying to figure out. He doesn't want to go the direction his family is pushing him and he's a little lost. He's also kind of into Jasper's grumpy silences and heated looks. Which works for both of them because HECK YEAH.
A snow storm, well-meaning friends, a song or two, a lot of simmering tension, and two people who need to figure out that they're what they've been looking for before it's too late. GOOD STUFF!
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