There's Something About Ari (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
I loved this novella - SO MUCH! It's got a great friends-to-lovers theme (one of my personal favorites) and I found the past baggage between the couple extremely compelling. Part light and funny, part complicated pasts and angst - I was charmed from the first chapter (when Ari and Buck meet as kids) to when they are reunited in their early 20s. The ending is a bit rushed, and the series backstory is glossed over quite a bit (which actually I prefer - no annoying, pointless-to-this-romance secondary characters hogging screen time!), so no - it's not a perfect read. But it's very good and I loved it from start to finish. Inhaled it in fact. An A- read for me. The second installment in the Bluewater Bay series rocks! LB Gregg should just patent this genre and make it her own, she's so good at it.Ari and Buck, two childhood friends, who grew up together in Bluewater Bay reunite after 5 years of absence when Ari returns as he is now on the ensemble of the TV series being filmed there, except there's also an ulterior motive for Ari coming back and moving in where he does... and there's where the good reading kicks off in high gear.LB Gregg is a master at this genre of M/M romance... I'm not sure what to call it, but maybe rom/com M/M? Anyhow, her storytelling is fantastic. Just the right amount of angst, heck she had me crying like a kid at the kitchen scene when Ari leaves childhood mementos for Buck, with just the right amount of comedic play all the while keeping the story contemporarily relevant. Yup, she's got it down pat.An excellent second book to this series - I'm going to continue my visits to Bluewater Bay when I need to unwind and have some fun, enjoyable, well written reading.
What do You think about There's Something About Ari (2014)?
More please! What Susan's review said, minus the reading at the airport catastrophe!
—123natan321
The characters were good, but this book just didn't do it for me.
—ninamazz123
