Both Christopher and Lucas have had challenging lives, that they try to escape. These two find themselves unexceptional attracted to each other and began to dabble into a newly formed relationship. Will they let their past define their new experiences or can they overcome what the abuse and anxiety of past relationships in order to be happy?

I received this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review. I would recommend this to anyone seeking a new thrilling love story book. I took a chance on reading this book and was not disappointed.

Two interesting men with drastically different occupations meet in the exotic local of Ibiza. How can this not be the set up for a hot steamy romance? Well, it's not really. It seems the author may have intended it to be a a sotry of escaping the past, healing and survival-- a journey to a new start.

I found that Christopher and Lucas were constantly over shadowed by their absent but ever present ex-boyfriends, Dan and Pedro. At times I felt like I knew their characters (even though we only know them by second-hand description) better than Christopher and Lucas, the focus of the story.

Liam Livings is a British author-- and as I've found on other occasions-- sometimes the passion the British writers are expressing doesn't come through in their modern romance writing. Is it a conservative thing? Anyway, I never found the passion between these two characters-- more a sense of clinging to one another to survive. Just getting through the days one by one.

This story moves slowly, much of the time focusing on the repetitive re-sharing of their negative past and doubtful future. It's not unpleasant reading-- but one would hope for some ecstatic exclamation of hope and desire-- achieving some triumph over the past feelings holding C and L down-- but we only get a lukewarm 'maybe'.

I received an ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed the premise of this book. Lucas, a dancer, and Christopher, a banker-turned-travel-journalist, meet in Ibiza and are instantly attracted to each other. Both had previous negative relationship experiences, and Lucas tries to help Christopher learn to live a little. Both experience insecurity in their developing relationship, but they end up getting through it. I do wish there were more love scenes; Christopher had an odd hesitance about it which I didn’t think was explained too well. I feel that the first half of the book was stronger but still enjoyed the second half well enough. I do wish the book was a little longer so we could see more of Lucas and Christopher’s relationship. Overall I enjoyed it and would recommend giving it a read.