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Max Kaufman was kicked out of his home as a teen and his life has been an uphill battle ever since. From addiction and living on the streets, to recovery and putting himself through nursing school, he’s spent the last ten years rebuilding his shattered sense of self. Now he’s taken a job as a private caretaker to Edward Marsh III, the president and CEO of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Max soon learns Marsh’s multi-billion-dollar empire is a gold and diamond-encrusted web of secrets and lies.
The longer Max works and lives with the Marsh family, the tighter the secrets tangle around him. And his heart—that he’s worked so hard to protect—falls straight into the hands of the distant, cold, and beautiful son of a dynasty…
Silas Marsh is set to inherit the family fortune, but his father is determined his heir be the “perfect” son. Before Silas can take over the company and end its shady business practices, he must prove himself worthy…and deny his true nature.
Silas must choose: stand up to his father by being true to himself and his undeniable feelings for Max. Or pretend to be someone he is not in order to inherit everything. Even if it means sacrificing a chance at happiness and real love.
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This is one of the most beautiful books I’ve read in 2019. As always with Emma Scott the writing is flawless and the plot is extremely well thought out and executed.
What really got me, are the characters. Max and Silas are so broken as individuals and my heart broke for them both. However, together they make a unit that makes the reader so happy by the end that you almost forget about the emotional rollercoaster you’ve just been on.
I consider myself a connoisseur of m/m books and this one is certainly like a fine wine.
Someday Someday is about facing adversity, fighting your own demons, fighting for yourself and coming out on top.
This was so beautifully written and I fell madly in love with Max and Silas. Definitely won’t forget Eddie. He was such a major addition to this story and I think for supporting characters he is one of my absolute favorites.
This book drew me in so deeply that I felt every emotion right along with these two guys.
I give Silas and Max all the beautiful stars!!
**Received ARC through NetGalley. Voluntarily reviewed **
My first Emma Scott book and if I could give it ten stars I would. This is hands down the best MM book I’ve read. It had a unique storyline that pulled me into the pages amongst the characters. The author wrote in a way that made me feel their pain and anger. My heart broke into a zillion pieces as I cried for Max & Silas. I felt Rachel’s grief and disgust at her part in the banishing of Max. Eddie was a breath of fresh air and elemental in bringing some light into the darkness. I implore you to pick up a copy of Someday, Someday today even If MM books are not your thing because after reading this book you’ll be looking from a different perspective.
Love should be unconditionally given from a parent but these men were ousted from life as they knew it. At a young age Max was tossed onto the street like a piece of unwanted trash because he liked boys. His struggle to survive on the streets was devastating, but one persons kindness turned his life around and gave him the chance he needed. Seven years later struggling to find his North, because he’s floating and needs to anchor himself. Max has to face his father before he can mend, but daddy dearest isn’t ready for that.
Silas is the heir to Marsh pharmaceuticals, a billionaire and shouldn’t have a care in the world. In reality it is smoke and mirrors, his life is a sham that was moulded at the hand of his father. “No son of mine will have impure thoughts, I’m packing you off to conversion therapy!” It’s the most barbaric, torture and it’s soul wrenching to think a parent would willingly do this to their own flesh and blood. After surviving near death, suffering with PTSD Silas merely exists in this world. He’d do anything to gain the affection of his father but it appears he’s a heartless b@$t@rd!
I have been on a M/M romance kick lately. I always look for the real-life stories because I crave the real love, romance and relationship over the down and dirty sex books, this one is top notch.
Both characters had a rough start but the bond that they form and the love they share is amazing.
I loved this book something fierce, and could be my top read of the year!
Is there any subject this author cant write a perfect story about??? There is a reason that after reading my first book by this author, I went on a binge party reading her books. Emma Scott has a way with words that is full of meaning, full of love and they stick with you forever.
Someday, Someday was heartbreaking to read. Not because of the book, but that this truly happens in real life. Parent’s who don’t accept their kids for whom they become. A parents love should be a forever love.
Read this book and devour the words. It’s a book you will be unable to put down!
“Someday isn’t a day of the week. It doesn’t come around automatically. You gotta go out there and get it”.
A quote from Emma’s latest Masterpiece!
Loved Max and Silas’s story !
Five Heartfelt Love filled Stars!
“Every minute you’re alive is a second chance to start over.”
From the moment I met Max in the previously released, Forever Right Now, I Adored him. Max was a character with heart and humanity. So I was really glad to see him in this story, getting his HEA. This was a story of Max and Silas learning to love and trust in themselves and others, to be loved for who they are, not what they are, rising up above adversity. This was Emma Scott’s first book in MM Romance genre, and I’m glad that she took up this challenge because in her perfect style she took this opportunity to spread the awareness of important issues regarding LGBTQ youth. For those who don’t or haven’t ventured to read M/M, this is the book you never knew you needed.
“Someday isn’t a day of the the week. It doesn’t come around automatically. You gotta go out there and get it.”
Beautifully and honestly written- and covering topics such as conversion therapy, the opioid epidemic, and addiction- Scott’s latest pulls at the heartstrings with genuine warmth and sincerity. An unlikely story about love, trust, and being true to yourself, it’s a must-read for 2019.
I’ve read a lot of emotional books, but this has been the first time in a long time that I actually had to stop reading a few times. Someday, Someday sucked me in, but sometimes it was just too much. Even though reading this was hard, I thought it was a good thing I couldn’t read this in one sitting. This means for me that Emma Scott was able to write these characters and story in such a way that I was getting all the feels.
Both Silas and Max have suffered in no way anyone should have to. Silas was sent to a sexuality conversion therapy and barely made it out alive. Max was caught with a boy as a teenager and his father kicked him out. This turned into him becoming addicted to drugs and selling his body. Both of them had not felt the love or care humans need in a long time, but are both trying to find their way back. As much as possible that is!
Someday, Someday isn’t your typical romance and even though it has a happily ever after, it’s not the fairytale most books are. These characters are dealing with a lot of demons and aren’t really sure if they can even try to love again. I did end up loving both of these characters. I mean, after all they’ve been through they were both be able to be caring human beings.
I have to say I’m having a hard time putting my thoughts in to words, this book broke my heart to pieces, but managed to put it all back together again. The hardest part of this book though is that sadly a lot of these things are really realistic. So many people still aren’t accepted for who they are and have to fight for the love they should receive. Also, the access to drugs is something that’s still a big issue in our world.
My review may not make much sense, but this is a hard book to grasp. Someday, Someday is filled with such realistic characters and issues and the emotions jump off of the pages. Even though how everything ended may seem a bit ‘easy’, our reader hearts need this ending! I needed at least one smile after all the emotion. That being said, I definitely recommend this book. Until you read it, I don’t think it’s possible to really now how this book makes you feel or to grasp the story.
I wasn’t prepared to be that book hungover by Someday, Someday . In true Emma Scott style, this book was heart-breaking yet beautiful. My emotions were all over the place – I laughed, I cried and I swooned. The book touched on some sensitive but real topics, but Emma had executed magnificently and brought us a powerful story about hope, love and diversity.
Max and Silas were both interesting and complex characters and I was captivated by them from the first page. I wanted to get to know them and peel away the dark layers that they were buried under. The rejections from their narrow-minded fathers and the horrific experiences that they had gone through in their younger years broke my heart. As I got to know them better as the story progressed, I knew that they were truly good men with beautiful souls.
The romance between Max and Silas was filled with angst, laughs and tears. Even though they were attracted to each other when they first met, they both had reasons to fight the attraction in the beginning. With Max’s honesty and compassion, I could totally see he would be the perfect person to crack the icy barrier that surrounded Silas’ heart and help him find his way back to his true self.
I totally enjoyed this heart-felt and powerful MM romance and would highly recommend it. It was a pleasure to ride with Max and Silas through all the bumps and to fight through all battles on their journey to their much deserved HEA.
I voluntarily reviewed an advance complimentary copy of this book. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
There are some books you just instinctively know you have to read, and Someday, Someday, by Emma Scott was one of those books for me. A love story between two men who couldn’t be more different yet so alike. I fell instantly in love with Max’s compassionate soul and his need to care for the people he loves. Silas won be over with his sheer will to overcome the horrific events from his past. Watching him fall in love with Max through the pages of this book was beautiful. By the end, my heart was bursting with emotions.
Someday, Someday deals with issues that are still very real for so many in the LGBTQ family, as well as an opioid problem that continues to plague this country. So much more than a romance novel, I urge everyone to take a chance on Max and Silas.
I’m soaking wet and drenched to the bone in pure distilled love that I found in the pages of Someday, Someday. I closed the book an hour ago, but my heart and brain are still hiding inside the pages. They refuse to come out, choosing to be a bystander in Max and Silas love (?) story, risking getting hurt by debris flying around when their love tatters & rips and than reside safely inside me.
I’m not a fan of MM tbh, but first Suanne, and now Emma have flipped me. If I could only read one author’s books for the rest of my life, I’d choose Emma any day. She writes soul drenching stories, I always feel plenished and enriched after reading her books
“So that happened,”
A tsunami of emotions, a rollercoaster of sentiments, a merry-go-round of passion & pain had me dizzy and spinning. A tale of Forbidden love like no other, it just sears on your heart marking it forever. Max Kauffman and Silas Marsh love is taboo as dictated by pseudo social norms, frowned upon by dogmatic & orthodox families and certainly bullied, emotionally and sometimes physically attacked by bigoted society as a whole
Needless to say I’m utterly, irrevocably in love with Max, even if he’d never choose me. Like gold he shines after burning through flames of humiliation, pain and rejection. He reminds me of Jimmy with kind eyes Whelan. A Selfless, altruistic and generous soul.
Silas had childlike naivete, suffering from lonely boy syndrome. His character reminded me of the poem “The Solitary Reaper” by William words worth —
“Will no one tell me what she sings?—
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:”
No one knows what battles he fights, what tunes he reminisces, what touches and smiles he misses, his soul playing one haunting, melancholic song after another till someone hears, stops, stands and LISTENS…..Mighty Max!
Seems like they both were abandoned and ridiculed for their life choices, made to feel worthless and stripped down to their bare minimum, kindred spirits HAD to serendipitiously cross paths
“I was a character in the play of my life. A life that was nothing more than an endless string of days pretending, lying, burying truths and feelings until I was more stone and steel than hot, beating blood.”
Whereas Carl rescued Max, Silas was banished to Chisana and isolated in the ivory tower, so he had to wait till Max came by and held his hand out for him to take. From here on, wherever they stepped, the ground beneath them gave away, chasm opened up, earth sank beneath their feet, but Max’s clasp never loosened on Silas’s hand. He held on tight and pulled him out….at least he valiantly tried.
“will I be the hero of my own life?”
All the while I was thinking how wonderful it’d be to be loved so completely by Max. His whole personality, every corner of his soul is full of light. To have that light shine on you, borrowing the glow like planets around the sun, how otherworldly Would that experience be? I was so jealous of Silas and pitied Lou and Barbara, they didn’t even know what they had produced and thrown away.
“Distressing….it’s terribly Distressing”
I was so ashamed of Edward, at one point wanted to strangle him. So embarrassed and livid at Lou, wanted to knock the fuck out of stelton too, while I’m at it.
Every page has crinkle due to my angry, frustrated teardrops, my pillow soaked wet that had muffled my wails. This story has touched somewhere deep, deep part of my soul I never knew I had.
But all this is worthless if the victim doesn’t have it in him/her to fight for themselves, their wants, their needs. Nobody can do it for you and THAT is the most important lesson I got to learn
“Well, just remember: Someday isn’t a day of the week. It doesn’t come around automatically. You gotta go out there and get it.”
I have to mention Eddie too. He’s the purest soul in the book. A “Special” person, childlike innocent and inadvertently honest. I saw godlike reflection in his personality, nudging, coaxing, showing Silas, Edward and Max the way. The most adorable character of the book indeed! And Faith warrants a special mention here. She earned my respect and admiration, not a gold digging floozie as I’d expected. Goes to show how damaging prejudices are!!!
You HAVE TO read this book, it’s a MUST READ, ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL for everyone to meet Silas and Max.
Just get drunk on heady love, open your minds and soak in the bright burning passion.
Check your bias, censure and prejudices at the Prologue.
“Because the house we’ve built is huge and beautiful, but it has stairs that lead to nowhere and doors that open to brick walls. Dead-ends that have left thousands with nowhere else to turn. I’m going to build places where they can go for help instead.”
All the stars and 6 boxes of tissues for Houses for Help
“Protectively. I vowed to end the next person who tried to hurt him. I should have known that person would be me.”
I’ve learned to appreciate the magic that is Emma Scott over the last few years. She has blown me away time and again with her beautiful stories. For that reason, she’s an auto-click author for me. Where she leads, I’ll follow. So, she decides to write her first MM Romance. I follow. I fall. I bow.
My heart broke repeatedly throughout the telling of this mind-bending story. Both of the main characters, Silas and Max, are broken. Damaged so deeply that it’s amazing they are still standing. They’ve been hurt most by the ones that should have loved them unconditionally. It saddens me so much that the ones who withhold their love have so much power over those that crave it so desperately. Children want their parents’ approval and acceptance and the absence of that affection can cause so much pain.
Nobody could understand what each has suffered more than Max and Silas. Parental rejection is a brutal lesson that neither seems to be able to accept. The eternal hope that they’ll one day be able to earn the elusive acceptance of a parent is a habit they share. But, it’s not the only one, nor is it something they openly admit.
There are other similarities and addictions they share as well. Max being employed by Silas’s father puts them in each other’s vicinity and makes it harder for them to deny the connection they feel. The coldness that Silas shrouds himself in is not as effective in Max’s presence. Silas feels exposed and he struggles to resist the pull of attraction he feels. The family legacy is a weight on his shoulders, creating a war between his head and his heart.
Max, I concur. “I promised to protect my heart and instead I ripped it out of my chest and handed it to Silas Marsh.”
Oh my…the pain and pressure they’ve both endured only to have to continue fighting for every small victory. How much easier it would be to just give up and stop trying, right? What an eye-opening journey the author took me on. She tackled several sensitive topics in a way that touched me deeply. My emotions runneth over. I can’t say enough good things about Someday, Someday.
One of the most powerful, triumphant love stories I’ve ever read! FIVE UNFORGETTABLE STARS!
The author dedicates this book “to everyone still fighting for the basic human right to love who you want to love without prejudice, censure or torment . . . to the enduring and indisputable truth that love is love.” This is the story of two gay men who fight for the right to love each other. Truly, it’s one of the most powerful, heartbreaking, triumphant love stories I’ve ever read, and I can’t recommend it highly enough!
(WARNING: SOME SPOILERS AHEAD!) Max Kaufman was kicked out of his family’s house at seventeen, when he sneaked another boy into his bedroom. He survived on the streets, selling himself for drug money, until a caring man helped him turn his life around. Now a registered nurse, Max meets beautiful Silas Marsh at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, where Silas reveals that he’s used pain pills to cope with PTSD, the result of being subjected to “conversion therapy.”
With the goal of changing Silas’s sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual, his father sent 17-year-old Silas to a conversion camp in an Alaskan ghost town in the dead of winter, where he and six other boys were tortured by “counselors” for six months until their “purification” was complete. Silas barely survived the physical and emotional abuse. (The descriptions are horrific, and such programs still exist!)
Anyway, seven years later, Silas is the Chief Operating Officer at Marsh Pharma in Seattle–a huge pharmaceutical company raking in billions of dollars from an opioid-based pain medication called OxyPro. Silas is a brilliant but frozen shell of a man, forced to conceal his true nature from his heartless, domineering father (Edward), the head of Marsh Pharma. But Edward is sick with multiple sclerosis, requiring around the clock care. When Max is hired to join the nursing team at the opulent Marsh mansion, he soon runs into Silas again, rekindling the attraction they felt at that NA meeting.
The lust between them is immediate and powerful, but Silas represses his feelings because of guilt over his “unnatural desires,” fear of his father, concern for his autistic older brother (Eddie), and empathy for the victims of Marsh Pharma’s unethical business practices. He’s recently discovered that Marsh Pharma’s marketing team is incentivising doctors to overprescribe OxyPro to thousands of people in order to increase profit margins, resulting in hundreds of overdose deaths in Appalachia alone.
Silas is trapped, hiding his true self (and his growing love for Max) behind a fake fiancee (Faith Benson), who is paid a hefty sum to play her role. (Faith turns out to be a good person–you’ll like her.) But the true hero of this story is Silas’s brother Eddie, a thoroughly delightful fellow who manages to overcome his fear of crowds at Silas and Faith’s engagement party and announces that “this is entirely a farce, and I won’t stand for it . . . Silas cannot be wed to Miss Benson.” And then he reveals the reason. OMG! This scene had me cheering out loud. You’ll love Max and Silas, but you’ll adore Eddie.
Please don’t miss this unforgettable story of two beautiful men who fall passionately in love with each other. There’s some explicit sex, but it’s not overdone. Told in Emma Scott’s incomparable prose, the narrative is infused with many noteworthy lines, e.g.: “Someday isn’t a day of the week. It doesn’t come around automatically. You gotta go out there and get it.” “Every minute you’re alive is a second chance to start over.” “There aren’t any rules about love . . . or shouldn’t be, anyway.” I agree.
Don’t wait for someday–read this book today! It easily earns five stars and MY HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!
Someday, Someday is about two male characters who want to be loved and free to be who they are without guilt or pain. Both guys want their parents to be proud of them not judged for the choices they make.
This book doesn’t address religion as a factor for why these parents don’t accept the lifestyle of either guy. For Max his parents were caught off guard when they discovered Max was interested in guys. For Silas his world was turned upside down when his father became this hardened creature believing real men were brutes.
There’s more at stake fir Silas then dealing with his sexual preferences. The family business that his father wants Silas to run is in line. Mr. Marsh has demands and stipulations that Silas must meet before he will promote him to CEO.
Mr. Marsh Silas’s father has MS and requires around the clock care. Max being a nurse finds himself caring for a man who is a homophobic-misogynist. Max puts aside his fears regarding Mr. Marsh.
Max grew up in a Jewish household with two older siblings. He was ten years younger than his sister and was too young to know them before they moved away. When he was sixteen he was kicked out of his house for being gay where he lived on the streets performing tricks to earn a living while numbing his body with drugs to keep the thoughts at bay. He paved his way to college earning a nursing degree.
Emma writes a compelling story about the lives of Max and Silas. When Emma writes about their backstories and the pain, suffering, and confusion they endured its enthralling. This is an easy to read story. It’s informative and well written. Emma carefully crafted all the lives of each of these characters and how each one carved the pathway for opportunity to grow, heal, and learn.
This explains the title perfectly, “Someday isn’t a day of the week. It doesn’t come around automatically. You gotta go out there and get it.”
Emma’s use of words was off the charts extraordinary. I haven’t seen so many unfamiliar words in quite some time. Normally my head would be screaming at me regarding the complexity, but it suited Eddie’s character perfectly. The terms, the words, the vocabulary, and the time piece era of his conversations was priceless.
Emma did a wonderful job illustrating the guilt, confusion, and sadness of living life differently. I loved how Emma incorporated music into the healing process. Emma has a beautiful writing voice. It’s full of compassion, support, and understanding. The emotions she expresses in her characters actions is felt strongly. I could reach inside and feel every emotion. I was transported into Silas’s and Max’s world where two people fall in love in a dangerous cruel world. Emma could’ve kept the story simple with two gay characters but she took big steps to include Eddie a character with Asperger Syndrome and a homophobic father.
I’ve only read one other book about two guys falling in love and I must say this book is a must read. It’s not a smut read. It’s a dark romance with a HEA.
The easy part was reading Emma Scott’s work. The hard part was formulating my thoughts into words. I’m not good at writing or expressing my feelings the same way Emma can. This was an informative eye opening read.
When I started reading this book, I already had a feeling that it was going to be this kind of book. The kind of book that sucks you in, with MC’s that crawl under your skin and settle there, making it impossible for you not to feel their struggles and the battles they have to fight.
And I was right.
It was that kind of book.
It was my first read by Emma Scott, and I am sure it’s not my last. I loved her style of writing and storytelling. She managed to pull me in right from the first pages and though I had to take a break from this book because I had some ARC’s to read, there was never a doubt I’d pick it up again, and when I did, I read it in almost one sitting.
Max’ and Silas’ story is touching and heartbreaking. Both let down by their families in the most painful way, they still hope for their approval and love. For acceptance.
When they find love with each other, they also find the strength to accept their pasts, and, in Silas’ case, to accept he needs professional help with his PTSD.
Yes, there was quite some drama, and I had a small problem in believing the change in attitude from Silas’ father in the end, but all in all this was so well written, it was such a beautiful story, I never hesitated with my rating. It deserves all the stars I can give and I highly recommend this book if you are into mm romances and love a well written hurt/comfort trope.
Be aware of triggers: abuse of substance, conversion therapy, homophobic language, and ptsd.
Another amazing story by Emma Scott. Max & Silas were both pained by their parents denial of who they actually were. Love that they found each other and were both able to confront themselves & their parents. Loved their beautiful story! Excellent narraiton by Zachary Johnson & Greg Tremblay.
This is a book I never would have read, had it not been for a group read, but I absolutely loved it. The world was well built and the characters really grew throughout the book. The author took such tragedy and turned it into an amazing story with the perfect happy ending, resolution included.
*4 Stars*
Copy kindly received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I always enjoy Emma Scott books, and this one was no different. This was actually my first MM book, and I really liked both main characters.
Silas and Max both have their own difficult pasts, and there is quite a lot to learn about both of them. Things that might be hard to read for some people. I thought it was a really interesting take on an MM book (thought as I said, its my first, so I could be wrong), and I liked getting to the bottom of everything and watching how these two dealt with things.
I really liked Eddie, and I’d love for him to get a book. I liked a lot of the secondary characters, but there were some I really really disliked as well.
An interesting tale of acceptance and growth.
Enjoyed this one, and would recommend.
Tragic, beautiful, heartwarming and heart wrenching with the biggest ingredient being acceptance and love.
Being loved and accepted for who you are is a struggle for our leading men. Both have suffered for being themselves in different ways but still truly tragic. It’s a story that is sad but also filled with hope. It’s not always easy when you keep getting knocked down to get back up and keep fighting for yourself and those you love.
Forgiveness isn’t for others it’s for yourself. It’s one of the hardest things to do but with it comes a true feeling of being free within.