Title: Team Phison Forever
Series: Team Phison: Book Two
Author: Chace Verity
Publisher: Self-Published
Length: 169 Pages
Categories: Contemporary Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Depression, Found Family
At a Glance: Team Phison Forever is the general definition of L O V E, in all its forms. It’s sweet and sentimental, heartfelt and hopeful, and Chace Verity knocked this one out of the park.
Reviewed By: Lisa
Blurb: Tyson Falls is ready to get married. After being disowned by his parents, his adorably grumpy boyfriend has made cautiously optimistic Tyson embrace the concept of family again. Armed with a ring and the newest video game, Tyson has plans for the nerdiest proposal.
Life throws a wrench in Tyson’s plans when he meets someone online during a multiplayer match. Someone that makes him rethink if he’s ready to start a family—the half-sister he never knew he had.
With the harsh reminder of how messy families can be, Tyson plunges headfirst into despair. Phil doesn’t deserve to be dragged into such a terrible bond. As Tyson wades through trauma and tries to push away the concept of family, he keeps turning to the man he loves most—the person who challenges him to redefine family.
Review: Well, that’s settled. I still love Phil Hutton and Tyson Falls to bits and pieces, and I had no idea I needed more of them until Chace Verity wrote this utterly beautiful little novella into existence.
Phil is still his curmudgeonly self, and I wouldn’t want him to be otherwise, but oh, he’s so soft for the love of his life, and I adore him. He is patient and concerned and supportive, but he’s not altogether sure what’s going on with Ty, why the man he loves is just not as much Ty as usual these days.
Tyson, who I called a ray of sunshine in my review of Team Phison, which was entirely accurate, is confronted, overcome and overwhelmed in this story by the cruel inner voice that tells him he is unworthy. This is a snapshot of the inner workings of depression and insecurity, and it hits the mark. Ty’s inscape is not a carefree place at all in this book, and he delivers a message that hits home to anyone who has suffered the battle between what is reality and what is perception: depression and anxiety are brutal and vicious head-mates.
Ty is so in love with Phil that he wants to not only spend the rest of his life with him, he wants to make it official. Ty has the ring and everything, and there is so much joy in the choosing. But then…fate throws a random blow, and suddenly, he remembers why making Phil his family in a legal and binding way is a horrible idea. Ty’s light dims then, and it is a terrible-beautiful thing to witness. Because for Ty, family is a dirty and complicated word. When he discovers he has a half-sister who gives him a wee glimmer of hope that he might have found someone who shares his DNA, who is decent and kind and who will embrace him—depression, bisexuality and all—someone he might count on to be there for him, watching that hope get tested, and seeing him suffer through it, is an experience in empathy and compassion. Because, in a simple sort of loving way, the way we readers love our characters, I wanted Ty to embrace how amazing and wonderful I know he is.
A novella that deals with subjects like depression and insecurity and unconditional love and being a throw-away child, and then setting it during the holiday season, when the focus on home and family is at its peak and depression is often at its most aggressive, was a stroke of inspiration on Verity’s part. What better time for Ty to discover that family isn’t always the people we are born to, but it’s the people who claim us, who choose us as their own. Those people are all here in this sequel, and Ty learns that lesson so well. He gets his biological sister and her small clan, thankfully, and he learns to embrace an entire found family too.
What a gift that is to the man who was made to believe he didn’t deserve it.
More importantly, however, is that Ty gets to claim Phil, the one who will always be there for him, who will drop everything to be by Ty’s side. Team Phison Forever is the general definition of L O V E, in all its forms. It’s sweet and sentimental, heartfelt and hopeful, and Chace Verity knocked this one out of the park.
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