Titles: Break Through/Come Back
Series: The District Line: Books Two and Three
Author: C.F. White
Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited
Length: 306/363 Pages
Category: Contemporary Romance
At a Glance: Author C.F. White serves up the drama at a near-relentless pace, from start to finish, and then delivers the happily ever after readers devour the Romance genre for.
Overall Rating: 3.5 Stars
Blurbs: Break Through ~ Should falling in love really get in the way of your lifelong dreams?
Sebastian Saunders is 3000 miles away from home. Working for his father’s expanded business in New York, he’s left behind the music career he craved, the friends he relied upon and possibly the love of his life. In a city that never sleeps, how can the nights cure a broken heart?
Jay Ruttman is in London, throwing himself harder into football and his quest to make it on the professional playing field. Locking himself back in the closet, how can he ever open the door, and his heart, again?
A chance encounter in New York where Jay and Seb rekindle their lost romance sets them both on a path to self-discovery and coming to terms with their past, their present and their future.
Come Back ~ The bigger you become, the harder you fall.
Sebastian Saunders is a rising rock star. Jay Ruttman is a Premier League football player. Their year-long relationship is hot commodity. Hounded by the press and fans alike, the lovers struggle to keep their private lives private.
Flying high in the charts and having Jay by his side, Seb is finally living his dream. But Jay’s new, promising career is threatened when a horrific injury on the pitch has him side lined—not only in the game but also in his relationship with Seb.
Jay’s crippling self-destruction spirals out of control, tearing them apart. To move forward, both men must learn to leave their past behind—not so easy when it keeps coming back to haunt them.
Can their hard-fought relationship survive the ultimate test?
Review: Break Through and Come Back are acts two and three of a dramatic trilogy which follows the romantic ups and downs of footballer, Jay Ruttman, and his rock star boyfriend, Seb Saunders. Author C.F. White serves up that drama at a near-relentless pace, from start to finish, as Jay and Seb’s story begins in Kick Off, where things didn’t end well when Seb was forced into a choice between appeasing his father—and thus retaining access to the lifestyle he was born into—or staying in London, living poor and working to build not only his relationship with Jay but a fledgling music career as well. Seb opted for the money and New York City, leaving Jay behind and breaking both their hearts in the process. But, it was that choice that ultimately saw Seb grow into his own man when he broke away from both his father and the vile bastard who has done his best to coerce Seb back into his bed. It also prompted Jay to step up and claim the man he wants, come what may.
Seb and Jay finding their way back to each other doesn’t mean there are no more hurdles left to jump, though. Theirs is a story that plays out over four years, during which time there are trials by fire and hard lessons learned. Jay’s career has taken off; he’s a pro player now, recognized most everywhere he goes—at a time when cell phone cameras were only just becoming an intrusion on the private lives of public people—and while he didn’t exactly kick the closet door down, he is out. That, however, does not mean he wants to be the poster boy for gay athletes. His relationship with Seb is off the table to the press, Seb has been given strict orders not to discuss their personal life, ever, but being out, no matter how avidly Jay guards his privacy, still causes him trouble on the pitch. He’s subjected to some hate on the field that nearly derails his career, throwing into focus how difficult it was, and still is, to be out in pro sports.
To further complicate things, giving the out-and-proud Seb the order not to give back as good as he gets when pressed about his relationship in interviews as his band, the Drops, is on a meteoric rise, becomes a lesson in futility. What it all adds up to is that readers are served up more than seven hundred pages of angst and drama and romance in The District Line series.
C.F. White follows Jay and Seb from their early to mid-twenties, during which time they grow up and learn a few lessons about themselves, each other, and about life in general—the good, the bad, and the sometimes ugly. Theirs is a story about finding themselves individually and as a couple, following their dreams, deciding what they want most in life, and, more integral to their romance, discovering what they’re each willing to do for love. It’s a story about healing, holding on, and moving forward, offering up a robust ensemble cast to support and see them through, and while the journey is a long one, sometimes predictable in its delivery, the outcome provides the happily ever after readers devour the Romance genre for.
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