Title: Gideon
Series: Finding Home: Book Three
Author: Lily Morton
Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited
Length: 280 Pages
Category: Contemporary Romance
At a Glance: Morton’s style feels effortless. With humor, snark, heat, and swoony, swoony romance, every book in the Finding Home series is such a mood lifter. Don’t miss Gideon, guys.
Reviewed By: Jules
Blurb: Gideon Ramsay is so far in the closet he should be a talking faun.
A talented, mercurial, and often selfish man, Gideon has everything he should want in life. Fame, money, acting awards – he has it all. Everything but honesty. At the advice of his agent, Gideon has concealed his sexuality for years. But it’s starting to get harder to hide, and his increasingly wild behaviour is threatening to destroy his career.
Then he’s laid low by a serious illness and into his life comes Eli Jones. Eli is everything that Gideon can’t understand. He’s sunny tempered, friendly, and optimistic. Even worse, he’s unaffected by grumpiness and sarcasm, which forms ninety percent of Gideon’s body weight. And now Gideon is trapped with him without any recourse to the drugs and alcohol that have previously eased his way through awkward situations.
However, as Gideon gets to know the other man, he finds himself wildly attracted to his lazy smiles and warm, scruffy charm that seem to fill a hole inside Gideon that’s been empty for a long time. Will he give in to this incomprehensible attraction when it could mean the end of everything that he’s worked for?
Review: Full disclosure: I one thousand percent expected to hate Gideon for the first ninety-three percent of this book. He was a complete ass hat in Milo, and I absolutely hated him. I thought Lily Morton was going to have to do some serious work to win me over. You guys know what I’m talking about, right? When you feel like there is NO WAY the author is gonna make you like some character?? Welp…she did it. And, it took her all of about three pages! I don’t know if my memory is just that short, or if she’s just that good, but I was sympathetic toward this jerk right from the start! Morton is crafty, though…In Gideon, she right away takes the pressure off our dear title character by giving us someone to hate even more. But we’ll get to Frankie later…
In Milo we knew Gideon as Milo’s pompous, opiniated, douchey brother, and Niall’s best friend. We knew that he met Niall and Silas in boarding school, and that they had stayed friends despite the distance between them, and the fact that Gideon is now a famous actor. As this book begins, we see that Gideon’s lifestyle has spiraled out of control with drinking, drugs, and clandestine threesomes. Clandestine because he’s still deeply closeted, thanks to the constant reminders from Frankie, his dickbag of a manager, that he would never be accepted if he came out. So, Gideon is living a lie, clearly unhappy, and literally almost runs himself into the ground and ends up in the hospital. Enter Eli Jones. (In a truly funny scene that I don’t want to spoil here—but, I will say that I fully enjoyed the visual in my mind of steam coming out of Frankie’s ears.)
Eli is fantastic, you guys. He’s professional, smart, funny, sweet, AND, as we find out later in the story, a dirty, dirty boy. 😉 I completely adored him, and everything about his and Gid’s relationship. The hilarious banter we’ve come to expect and love from Morton’s characters is there in full force; but, what I really loved about these guys was how much their fondness for each other simply leapt off the page. Everything between them seemed so natural and meant-to-be. *sigh* I swooned super hard for these two. And, Gideon totally won me over. With every moment he was open, and vulnerable, and showed his love for his brother and his friends, I fell more in love with him.
I love the Mixed Messages books as well, but in this series Morton’s style feels effortless. With humor, snark, heat, and swoony, swoony romance, every book in the Finding Home series is such a mood lifter. I feel like I say “This one is my favorite!” every time I pick one up, but this one might actually be my favorite. I loved the cruise and all the settings in the first half—there is a whole bit in Nice that is so, so lovely. I loved all the scenes at Chi an Mor, and every interaction with Milo, Niall, Oz and Silas. And, the epilogue gives us a perfect little glimpse into the future.
Don’t miss Gideon, guys. Reading through all my highlights totally made me want to read it again. In fact, maybe I will while I wait for the next book to come out!
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