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Sto caricando le informazioni... System Overload (Divorced Men's Club, #5)di Saxon James
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Keller Banging my son's bestie was a total accident that will never, ever happen again. I'm sure of it. While he might be gorgeous and caught me in a weak moment, when it comes right down to it, my son has been my entire life for the last twenty-six years. I don't know how to be anything other than his dad. But with Molly heading off to Seattle, he leaves me with a parting gift: Will. His best friend. And my new roommate. Still, I'm determined to focus on my plan of finding someone to settle down with and to start living for me. Then Molly hits me with another gift: he's asked Will to help find me the perfect partner. Will Molly leaving me to run away across the country made one thing very obvious. I crave stability. I crave a life where I get to control what happens to me, without the constant threat of having to move home to my homophobic family. All I need to focus on is work and making enough money for the downpayment on my own place. Except now I'm living in the spare bedroom of the man I've been in love with for years. The same bedroom where we had one very messy, very quick, accidental frot sesh. Now I'm cooking for him every night, and we're working out together every morning. It's all feeling very domestic and my heart can't separate reality from the fantasies in my head. I know I'm going to get hurt. It's only a matter of time. But when it comes to Keller, it's impossible for me to walk away. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Basically, it excels because Saxon James can write the heck out of an M/M romantic comedy.
System Overload was published last year (2023) so I always appreciate it when a library can bring me a current publication - thanks Hoopla.
Spoiler alert! Keller holds the unusual honour of having become a father at 16, and two years later he is a single dad. So raising Molly has been his reason for breathing. When Molly is in his mid twenties he moves to a new city for a fresh start after a heartbreak. His best friend, Will, remains behind and moves in with Molly's dad to save money. Will has secretly been in lust with the very cool confident Keller for years, so he fears the move. The inevitable happens and in the epilogue a full circle is possible when we find that Keller is looking into adoption so that he can give Will the chance to raise a child - which for Keller was the defining purpose of his life.
I sometimes write a summary like this so I can recount the journey I've just been on in my own words. I now see the novel was a bit more meaty than I thought.
While the 15 years between the MCs tries to pigeonhole System Overload as an age gap novel (I seem to have been deluged in this theme lately and I'm a little over it), the friction in the novel is if a parent/kid's best friend date how bad form is it?
A lot was made of Will and Keller denying, and then holding back on their feelings. This was to save all of them from the potential backlash from the moody Molly, however, it was also posed as a moral rule - love was not to happen between the father and the friend. Laboring this point was tiresome.
To be moral is to conform to a standard that is right and good (Merriam-Webster). That's important in everything. But Will and Kellor's concerns were about dodging potential conflict, and adhering to social norms - I didn't like that it got confused as taking a moral stand. (