Wills and Crispin have been best friends since kindergarten and lovers since eleventh grade. They’ve had to hide their relationship from their upper-class Savannah parents all through high school. Now, as Wills heads off to the University of Georgia for law school, and Crispin stays in Savannah to become a carpenter like his father, Wills decides he can’t stand a long distance relationship — no … no matter how much it hurts them.But after a momentous Christmas break, they decide to try. Two teens are trying to negotiate growing up, growing together, and growing a relationship. It’s hard work, the kind of work where a hand-holding might mean more than a night of sex. But Crispin and Wills are determined to make it.”It’s Enough,” “Like Sunshine,” and “Slow Dance,” collected into one volume with a new prologue, “If You Believe” is a best-friends-to-lovers story filled with passion and heartfelt emotion. Gay Book Reviews called “Like Sunshine” “a tone poem to first love” and gave both “It’s Enough” and “Like Sunshine” 5/5 stars and 5/5 heat level.
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3.5 stars They know each other from kindergarten, started a relationship no one can know about and now both have to live in different towns, following different studies. Vacation and holidays are highlights because that’s when they can be together. Nobody knows about them. For the outside world, they are best friends.
They keep up appearances and meet secretly in hotel rooms. They desperately want to be together.
But living in Savannah and be more than friends isn’t really an option.
Now Crispin travels to Athens, to Wills, where Wills studies and lives with his twin brother in an apartment. They can be free and enjoy each other. And that’s exactly what they do!
They still are hesitant and a bit shy, a bit uncomfortable. In bed, they can let go.
They find a way to stay the summer in Athens, together, with no one around. Because no one can find out about their relationship and it’s so hard being apart. Being together gives stress and both have to adjust. Wills reaches a breaking point. They open up more, even argue with each other, talk about the future. It’s hard for them not to be out. They speak about love and make a big promise.
We can enjoy a small piece of Crispin and Wills their (love) life.
They are sweet and sensitive together. Insecure about how the other feels, hesitating to be the first to say something, but always hot for each other, always.
It was a kind, passionate story. These boys are intense in their own special way. Words are important but not all the time. They can just do without, their bodies speak louder. They have a lot of sexual activities, a lot and it’s hot and intense. I would love to see them in their future life.
A smoothly, in sometimes Southern dialect, written story. I understand they talk like the way it’s written and I almost can hear them. We get to know some little aspects of the guys, how they live, study, and how they organize their love life without their families to know. Luckily one family member is supportive. The whole story just enough developed to feel connected.
If You Believe is a sweet romance about two best friends who have been together since the eleventh grade despite how disapproving their families would be over it.
Wills and Crispin survived high school together, now they must learn to make it through college apart. These two are the sweetest couple in the world that Julia McBryant has created. While there are high emotions, the angst level is rather low. Yes, they have t hide their relationship from everyone but their closest friends and are forced apart by the miles separating them, they also stand the best chance of getting through it all damage-free.
To everyone they meet, they are rendered cute and sweet since they were best friends their whole lives before they were lovers. Watching as they navigate their relationship now is swoon-worthy.
Though they don’t know how to express themselves, thanks to their upper crust, you cannot be gay upbringings, they manage to prove to themselves and to each other that their relationship is strong to beat any odds.
If you’re looking for a read that is the right amount of sweet and hot then look no further.
Wills and Crispin know each other since they were in kindergarten. They started dating in eleventh grade and are in love. When they finish high school they go to different colleges that are far away and decide that it’s too hard to be together like this. They soon discover that their feelings are too deep to ignore and try to make things work long distance. It’s not easy but they’re determined to find a way.
I adore Crispin and Wills as people and I love them so much together. Their relationship is realistic and so very interesting to read about. I had no trouble connecting with them. The book is also extremely steamy, they have amazing chemistry.
I didn’t want it to end, I loved it so much. Oh! five year old Wills making a drawing for Crispin melted my heart!!
And finally, the writing style is dreamy, it’s like listening to a beautiful love song.
I received an ARC of this book for an honest review.
Julia McBryant has a way of writing that just brings her stories to life, they draw you in and make you have to stay and read every single one of them, they are so good. Wills and Crispin have known each other their whole lives first as best friends, now as lovers, but when it’s time to go on to college each has to follow his own path, so they break up, but on breaks from school they are drawn back to each other. They can’t help but wonder if there is ever going to be someone else for either of them or is it always going to be just them together, only their willingness to try to build a lasting relationship no matter what and time will tell.