Only You

Only You (Coming of Age #3) 

by Leta Blake 

5 Stars

The first two books in this series came out in 2016. They engrossed me utterly. How delighted I was, to learn that the final book was being released!

The series is described as a "coming of age" story, not a romance. There are major relationship plots throughout the three books, but the story is about Peter's life as a whole, with his family, with his school, with his studies, his social life and so on. 

This book starts immediately after the end of book 2. I had to quickly go back to book 2 to reread (for the third time) the last chunk of the book to understand what was going on. (While doing so I felt the strong need to reread the first two books again. I still plan to so soon).

Only You is just as splendid and engrossing as the first two books. The joins are seamless, which is amazing given that this last book was written many years (7?) after the first two. 

This is the story of Peter's first year at university, and his relationship with Daniel. Everyone in the book is a fully realised engrossing character. They are interesting people who have interesting lives. This was the case in the first two books as well. They are all living in the shadow of AIDS and homophobia. This is shown well. 

The only grumble I have is that there is not a book #4, #5....

Start with book 1. You are in for an absolute treat. Just make sure that you don't have to get up to go to work in the morning.

Thank you to Gay Romance Reviews for giving me an advanced review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. For once, my honest review is positive.

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