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A review by alexisisreading
Riven by Roan Parrish
5.0
Oh my god.
Okay.
How did you tell someone who was practically a stranger that you’d been thinking about him for weeks? That you realized spending time with him had been the best you’d felt in longer than you could remember? That you kind of wondered if maybe you could just stand near him in the hopes of soaking up some of that good feeling again?
Theo and Caleb were everything to me. I loved their relationship from the very beginning. Both men are experiencing very different types of loneliness. Theo is the outsider in his own band - he feels disconnected from his bandmates, he hates being famous, yet he desperately craves intimacy and connection. Meanwhile Caleb is a recovering addict and has removed himself from that lifestyle in order to stay sober. He's wary about letting Theo in because Theo's lifestyle is the exact lifestyle Caleb left. He struggles throughout the book with accepting that Theo is someone he wants and allowing himself to have Theo because he wants to keep his privacy.
Sometimes people need other people. I really liked how Theo and Caleb pushed each other to confront the things they were keeping down before. Theo felt like he owed the band and because of that he was sticking it out - Caleb allowed for him to reflect and realize that he owed it to himself to do what makes him happy. Similarly Theo helped push Caleb back into making music, back into writing songs and sharing it with the world.
I thought Theo and Caleb were good together, I thought Theo's restless energy was a good match for Caleb and I thought Caleb's straightforwardness was good in helping Theo not overthink as much.
Overall I really enjoyed this book. I love the hurt/comfort, the tender and steamy spice, and just two men being completely whipped for one another.
We were locked up tight, clinging together, and there wasn’t a fucking thing in the world that could have made me let him go.
Okay.
How did you tell someone who was practically a stranger that you’d been thinking about him for weeks? That you realized spending time with him had been the best you’d felt in longer than you could remember? That you kind of wondered if maybe you could just stand near him in the hopes of soaking up some of that good feeling again?
Theo and Caleb were everything to me. I loved their relationship from the very beginning. Both men are experiencing very different types of loneliness. Theo is the outsider in his own band - he feels disconnected from his bandmates, he hates being famous, yet he desperately craves intimacy and connection. Meanwhile Caleb is a recovering addict and has removed himself from that lifestyle in order to stay sober. He's wary about letting Theo in because Theo's lifestyle is the exact lifestyle Caleb left. He struggles throughout the book with accepting that Theo is someone he wants and allowing himself to have Theo because he wants to keep his privacy.
Sometimes people need other people. I really liked how Theo and Caleb pushed each other to confront the things they were keeping down before. Theo felt like he owed the band and because of that he was sticking it out - Caleb allowed for him to reflect and realize that he owed it to himself to do what makes him happy. Similarly Theo helped push Caleb back into making music, back into writing songs and sharing it with the world.
I thought Theo and Caleb were good together, I thought Theo's restless energy was a good match for Caleb and I thought Caleb's straightforwardness was good in helping Theo not overthink as much.
Overall I really enjoyed this book. I love the hurt/comfort, the tender and steamy spice, and just two men being completely whipped for one another.
We were locked up tight, clinging together, and there wasn’t a fucking thing in the world that could have made me let him go.