Can your favorite hockey players finish their first season together undefeated?
Five months in, NHL forward Ryan Wesley is having a record-breaking rookie season. He’s living his dream of playing pro hockey and coming home every night to the man he loves—Jamie Canning, his longtime best friend turned boyfriend. There’s just one problem: the most important relationship of his life is one he needs … his life is one he needs to keep hidden, or else face a media storm that will eclipse his success on the ice.
Jamie loves Wes. He really, truly does. But hiding sucks. It’s not the life Jamie envisioned for himself, and the strain of keeping their secret is taking its toll. It doesn’t help that his new job isn’t going as smoothly as he’d hoped, but he knows he can power through it as long as he has Wes. At least apartment 10B is their retreat, where they can always be themselves.
Or can they? When Wes’s nosiest teammate moves in upstairs, the threads of their carefully woven lie begin to unravel. With the outside world determined to take its best shot at them, can Wes and Jamie develop major-league relationship skills on the fly?
Warning: contains sexual situations, a vibrating chair, long-distance sexytimes and proof that hockey players look hot in any shade of green.
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Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy got nothing but net on this MM Hockey romance!!
Jamie and Wes try to have a brand new relationship under wraps, make friends with a crazy teammate, and stay away from the press in this phenomenal follow up to Him.
An amazing book that shows the right AND wrong ways to deal with relationships, family, and bullying in whatever form it is found.
I still don’t have the words! It’s SO GOOD, amazingly HOTTT, sad and fun all at the same time. An absolute 10 treat!!
Loved this m/m book and learned so much from it.
Love the characters. My first gay characters book and I enjoyed it.
Audio version – I absolutely loved Him…and I think I loved Us even more. Such a great love story…all the angst like any other relationship…their overwhelming need to just be with each other. With any relationship there are ups and downs and Jamie and Wes handled them like pros. The side characters were all awesome – a great part of the story but didn’t take away from the MC’s. I’m looking forward to diving head first into Good Boy.
The narration was phenomenal – Teddy Hamilton and Jacob Morgan together – swoon 🙂
I’m sad that their story is finished (from their point of view) but what a story it was! I love Sarina Bowen, she’s my unicorn author, and her and Elle smashed these books out the park so I’m immediately going to read Elle’s books too.
Everyone wants a love like Ryan and Jamie, that all consuming need to be with the one person that you couldn’t live without. I adored their relationship and I love reading about hockey players! I think it’s my favourite sub genre of the sports genre. I can’t wait to move onto Blake and Jess’s story, Blake is so funny!
I love everything about this sequel to Him, it was such a perfect novel to follow and I couldn’t have asked for a better story for Wes and Jamie.
Again this book was hot, hotter than I expected an M/M book would ever get me but Sarina and Elle had the perfect balance of hockey, sex and romance and to be honest I felt these really two focused on the acceptance of being gay and how the public would handle it especially with Wes being a high profile rookie hockey player he wanted to keep his sexuality on the down low.
Jamie was finding it difficult keeping his love for Wes on the quiet but knew he had to do it for Wes but once he gets sick and is feeling lonely I think he really struggled with being worried about doing the wrong thing, saying the wrong thing. He was so used to be laid back and he wasn’t able to be himself, Wes couldn’t understand what was happening with Jamie and they seemed to struggle through this novel.
I just loved everything about this book and the 2 books are 2 of my favourites ever, absolutely loved what they stood for and would recommend this to everyone and anyone, especially if u don’t think you are going to like M/M or haven’t read this genre then you need to start with these 2 absolute fantastic.
5 massive stars for this.
What a wonderful and perfect conclusion to Ryan and Jamie’s story. I enjoyed this equally as much as Him. This was all about them being in a relationship and how the public would perceive them once their relationship became public knowledge. I also loved the focus on Jamie and what he’s identity would be now that he’s together with Ryan the famous hockey player. He really struggles and I felt his helplessness so bad that my heart was hurting. Both guys are fabulous and their love and trust they have for each other are freaking beautiful. I loved their scenes together. Whether it was their sexy times or just them hanging out. I loved Us because I felt their chemistry and connection.
I was so happy that Jamie’s family made an appearance. They’re truly the most loving and understanding family ever. What can I say. I’m definitely converted to reading M/M stories now.
4 BadAssDirtySkittlesStars
I heart Jamie and Wes. What else can I say? If I wasn’t already in love with these two, Us sent me swooning even more. Sweet, humorous, emotional, and HOT! Everything I could want in my romance! Now I can’t wait to read Blake’s story!!
“Cool,” I say, although I’m not exactly sure what that means. I’m, like, the worst queer dude ever. Somebody pass me the manual.”
I listened to this on audiobook and just Amazing narration!
-5Stars!!-
OKAY….so I didn’t think I could love Wes and Jamie anymore than I did in HIM, but I LOVED them even more in US.
US is the second book in Jamie and Wes’ story. Wes is a first year Rookie NHL Star and Jamie coaches hockey. In Him, these two realized that they loved each other. The discovery of their love was new and they beat all odds to become a couple and stay together. They even moved in together. At that time, Wes was opened about his sexuality with his college coach and teammates. However, in US, he finds himself having to hide who he is because a “gay man” playing professional sport is frowned upon. This being Wes’ first year in the NHL he wanted to be known for his talent, not his sexuality. Having to hide the truth about their relationship to the world caused a strain in Jamie and Wes’ relationship. Jamie found himself with a lot of self doubt and insecurities. I didn’t blame him though.
What I liked most about this story is that it showed how difficult it is having to live your life as if you were someone else for fear of backlash or fear of loosing something you have worked for your entire life. It is so unfair to have to live like that, but it is the reality of how things are sometimes. Wes should have never had to worry about what type of backslash he was going to receive. His talent should have spoken for itself and he should be seen as another talented hockey player, not a gay hockey player. It really pissed me off when they were outed, especially because it happened during such a private and intimate moment between Jamie and Wes. I completely understood Wes’ fears. I loved that his teammates all had his back once his sexuality was exposed. While we are living in times when same sex couples could marry and have same rights as heterosexual couples, we still live in times of ignorance and bigotry.
I truly love this series and Jamie and Wes are one of my favorite romance couples. This book has so much relatable content and some really fun characters. I have to say though, Blake, is one of my top 5 favorite characters in a romance book ever. I loved having been introduced to such a fun, hard core, yet big teddy bear of a character. Defintely, moving on the the Wags series.
5 Vitamin C Stars
I can’t get enough of Jamie and Wes. I fell in love with them in Him and this just cemented their perfect spot on my top ten favorite couple lists.
This is what happens when the newness of a relationship wears off.
Jamie and Wes are trying to figure out their way in this crazy relationship they want more than anything else. And it isn’t easy, what with trying to hide their relationship from their peers.
I’ve realized there is always a moment in a book that solidifies itself as something worth reading–well, there should be, but whatever. There is that moment when I sit back and say ‘yes, that’s the moment.’
The moment in Him was the first kiss. That first kiss was sheer perfection and ranks in my top five best first kisses ever. That moment in Us was the moment Wes dropped everything to be with Jamie. The moment he placed his lips to Jamie’s forehead and then his lips was the moment I won’t forget. It’s the moment I’ll want to replay over and over just to experience it again.
Jamie and Wes may have a few obstacles to overcome, but they have the help of the Canning clan and their new neighbor/Wes’s teammate, Blake. Blake is awesomsauce. Buckle up because he’ll have you laughing in a nanosecond. And I know he has his own book, but this first meeting is to die for! I love him so much! He’s the perfect counter to the seriousness of Wes and Jamie.
So, Wes and Jamie are my go-to couple when I want a story that will make me happy. I know I’ll be listening to them at least once a year from now on.
**Not a standalone… read HIM before US.**
Wes and Jamie may have gotten their happy for now at the end of Him, but I was NOWHERE NEAR satisfied. To be honest, I will probably never be satisfied with Wes and Jamie. I want to be their neighbor or their best friend. Heck, even just being their cleaning lady works for me! The chance to spend more time with two of my favorite guys, even knowing that Sarina and Elle were going to deliver me a sucker punch to the gut, was worth every single agonizing and angst-ridden moment.
We pick up with the guys about eight months after Him. Wes is having a rookie season crafted for the record books, but it’s not going as swimmingly for Jamie. His coaching job isn’t everything he hoped for and working with a bigoted assistant coach everyone else seems to turn a blind eye to, is making each day more and more difficult. Making matters worse? Having to still pretend his relationship isn’t the love story it truly is. Jamie wants desperately for Wes to continue playing brilliant hockey, without the stress of having to explain his personal relationship, but we witness a little bit of him die inside more each day.
Their haven is their apartment, where they don’t have to pretend to be anything they are not….until Wes’s teammate, Blake moves in upstairs. All of a sudden, he’s coming over at all hours of the day, taking away the privacy Wes and Jamie so desperately crave. At first, I hated Blake, and screamed at him to leave my boys alone. But, the more he hung around, the more he grew on me. Then came the one phone call that shifted the whole story, and dropped everything on its head. At that moment, not only did I no longer hate Blake, but he became my hero.
I absorbed every single word, moment, and feeling in this book. I refused to put it down, and spent the entire night with my boys. I am always impressed with how Sarina and Elle manage to balance humor and gut-wrenching emotion. I’m near tears one sentence, then laughing the next. There is not a single part of this book that isn’t written perfectly. There isn’t a moment I would change or a decision I would second guess. We have a front row seat to see Wes and Jamie grow and change and it’s an honor to come on along on their ride. I wish I could experience it for the first time again, but that’s what the re-read is for…to get lost once again in the beauty of this sensational book.
First book I’ve read in this genre, but the characters are wonderful and the connection between them keeps the reader enthralled. I actually loved their story.
Very good sequel to first book “Him”. Need to read the first one to read this book. I love how they main characters connect and love each other.