Quinton Thorn has always wanted to own a bakery and share his love of food with as many people as possible. His passion for taking regular recipes and turning them into something special is what makes his food unique. When he meets Enzo Reid the first day of culinary school, he has no reason to question why he’s there. He accepts that Enzo is just as passionate about baking as he is. He soon … realizes he has feelings for Enzo that go beyond friendship, but for the sake of their business, he keeps his feelings to himself.Enzo Reid started culinary school, hoping for a second chance. He’d already had one career, and when it disintegrated, he wanted a new start. He never meant to deceive Quinton, but he was never totally honest with him either, and now his actions will force him to choose between keeping their friendship or continuing their business. He has six months to decide what he’ll do, then he’ll need to live with his decision, and the choices he’s made in the past. A friends to enemies to lovers romance.
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A friends-to-enemies-to lovers romance? Trust BL Maxwell to give readers something that is different from what is traditionally found in M/M contemporary romance. We are given a full, well-rounded, fleshed-out story with Six Months. In it, the writer wastes no time in getting the readers to feel the frustration of Quinton as his business partner treatment becomes the last straw. Different from so many other romances where the tension comes from unrequited love, the maltreatment of Quinton stems from a malicious business relationship he has had in the past.
Quinton Thorn and Enzo Reid became friends on the first day of culinary school then became business partners. Unfortunately for Quinto, Enzo doesn’t have the same feelings towards him but is harboring a secret that accounts for his emotional distancing. Feeling stomped on by Enzo, Quinton makes a decision to go it alone with his own bakery business. He gives Enzo six months to buy him out or prepare to sell the business. It takes that ultimatum for Enzo to realize how much he’s hurt Quinton, that he doesn’t want to lose the friendship, and that he sincerely needs Quinton for a more emotionally committed intimate long-term relationship.
For a short story, the writer gives readers everything they could possibly want in ANY story! A world within the narrative that is fully constructed. Character development through growth that is fully realized throughout the story. A revelation that accounts for the conflict in the tale along with a plausible resolution that is credible, given what we know from the major characters. Then we have a happily ever after, making this story one of the most delightful ones I’ve read given the one main character that I found disagreeable. Well done, BL Maxwell! I really, really liked this story!
Quinton and Enzo are an odd pair of best friends. They both have deeper feelings for the other but are unwilling or incapable of expressing them; plus, they are business partners and they do not seem to be able not to snap at each other. When Quinton decides enough is enough and gives Enzo six months before dissolving their partnership, things begin to change and the two men start to figure out they’d rather have the other in their lives than not.
There is so much tension for such a short story, and, hating conflict myself, I was on edge the whole time and I hurt for these two men who seem incapable to settle their differences.
A slow-burn, friends to lovers story, which is not quite as sweet as the cover led me to believe, but is full of a range of emotions nonetheless.
Short and sweet romance
This is a short 2hour audio, about 2 friends who build a business together but in reality one is in love with the other.
I have to be honest and say that Douglas Wilkin isn’t my favourite narrator, I’m not sure whether its the tone or accent and I had to listen to him at normal rate, which has never happened before, so that’s a first.
Great sweet book.
Six Months
By: BL Maxwell
Narrated by: Douglas Wilkin
Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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