Love You So Hard

by Tara Lain

[Linda]

This review was originally posted on (un)Conventional Bookviews
Love You So Hard is a cute, short read about Craig and Jessie, and how Craig needed some encouragement to be more confident.



Love You So Hard is a short, hot read, and knowing that it started with a photo and a prompt in the Goodreads M/M group makes feel all kind of awe for Ms. Lain here! There was both humour and hotness here, and part of the action was set in Laguna Beach, which makes me wonder if that's how Love in Laguna started...

As the story in Love You So Hard is only 76 pages, there is very little character development, and that's why I gave it three stars rather than four. It's still quite a feat to be able to write a novella based on someone else's prompt, though, and actually make the story make sense.

Of course, if you're a Lain fan like me, you should pick up Love You So Hard just to enjoy her terrific brand of humour and her beautiful writing :)



Craig took a sip of his latte and forced himself to lean against the coffee shop wall and stare at his phone screen. If the guy didn't come in five minutes, he had to leave and get to work.

This was it. his big hope and now it was gone. nothing was different. Nothing would ever change. Once again he'd let someone push his legs back and fuck him.

He froze. He'd know that voice anywhere. Craig opened his eyes and looked straight at a black T-shirt and the message that haunted him. 'I Would Bottom You So Hard'. The words stretched across that lean, beautifully-muscled chest under a wide set of muscles.