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A review by mollyreadsandcrafts
In the Eye of the Beholder by Dianna Roman
3.25
While I really enjoyed the first book in this series, I didn't love this follow up book as much. There's a lot going on and I'm still not sure how much I liked the characters, but there were parts of the story I did like.
Daniel works at a bar and has been serving drinks to the mysterious Mr. Manhattan (Eric) for a few years. After an incident occurs one night, Daniel reluctantly takes shelter in Eric's manor house and becomes his assistant. Working and living together, Daniel overcomes his prejudges and they form a close bond as they overcome their past issues.
While I think both characters were complex with interesting backgrounds, I'm not sure how much I liked them? Daniel was very snarky and not the nicest, though I do think he had a great character arc and by the end I did like him. After a lot of self reflection he really changed for the better. For being almost 50 and in a loving relationship most his life, you would think Eric had better communication skills. I don't think he ever really understood Daniel until the very end, though he was infatuated with him the entire book. I have no doubt they love each other very much but I didn't feel like it hit that deep level until the end, which could partly be due to the slowest of all slow burn. The slow burn was fine, but I felt like they didn't even like each other until a good bit into the book - at least on Daniel's end. Eric not communicating basically any of his feelings didn't help. When they did get together though their chemistry was wild and I loved the physical side of their relationship.
This book felt like it had two different stories going on. While I liked both, I didn't really feel like they connected to each other that well. I was really intrigued by some elements in the first half that were resolved fairly quickly and not brought up again, and then the second half felt more like how I expected the story to go.
I loved Riley and Harper cameos, but I do think I liked Riley a lot more in his own book than as a side character. I want to know what's happening with Rob and his complicated situation and I did enjoy the first book, so I'm going to keep an eye out for that!
Read if you like:
• age gap
• hurt/comfort
• forced proximity
• slow burn
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Daniel works at a bar and has been serving drinks to the mysterious Mr. Manhattan (Eric) for a few years. After an incident occurs one night, Daniel reluctantly takes shelter in Eric's manor house and becomes his assistant. Working and living together, Daniel overcomes his prejudges and they form a close bond as they overcome their past issues.
While I think both characters were complex with interesting backgrounds, I'm not sure how much I liked them? Daniel was very snarky and not the nicest, though I do think he had a great character arc and by the end I did like him. After a lot of self reflection he really changed for the better. For being almost 50 and in a loving relationship most his life, you would think Eric had better communication skills. I don't think he ever really understood Daniel until the very end, though he was infatuated with him the entire book. I have no doubt they love each other very much but I didn't feel like it hit that deep level until the end, which could partly be due to the slowest of all slow burn. The slow burn was fine, but I felt like they didn't even like each other until a good bit into the book - at least on Daniel's end. Eric not communicating basically any of his feelings didn't help. When they did get together though their chemistry was wild and I loved the physical side of their relationship.
This book felt like it had two different stories going on. While I liked both, I didn't really feel like they connected to each other that well. I was really intrigued by some elements in the first half that were resolved fairly quickly and not brought up again, and then the second half felt more like how I expected the story to go.
I loved Riley and Harper cameos, but I do think I liked Riley a lot more in his own book than as a side character. I want to know what's happening with Rob and his complicated situation and I did enjoy the first book, so I'm going to keep an eye out for that!
Read if you like:
• age gap
• hurt/comfort
• forced proximity
• slow burn
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