Blog Tour, Review and Giveaway: Standard Candle by G.B. Lindsey

23 July of 2020 by ButtonsMom2003

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

Different but I loved it.

Standard Candle By G.B. Lindsey

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Friends-with-benefits

Released: July 20, 2020

Publisher: Self-Published

Synopsis

Denny Wyatt: friend.

Denny, who sleeps in threadbare tees that smell like his cigarettes, who coats his arms in the guts of engines, who kisses like he’s sampling you, scenting you, until you forget that there are things you can’t afford to forget.

Denny Wyatt: with benefits.

It’s not dating. You’ve both done enough of that. You’re both stuck in this town, you’re both going nowhere, but at night, you have each other. It’s sex. It’s an arrangement. It suits you both.

Denny Wyatt: yours.

Tonight, the lie shatters. Denny Wyatt is so much more than friend, than lover, than any one word.
But you’d better speak—better find the words—or he’s gone.

Teaser Graphic

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Different but I loved it.

OK, I have to start out by saying that I nearly DNF this one after reading just a few pages. Next, I have to say how HAPPY I am that I kept reading. I don’t know what POV this story is written in; it’s different from anything I’ve read before (at least as far as I can remember). When I tried to look it up, I came up with the uncommon second person POV but that didn’t exactly seem to fit either. It’s almost like it’s first person POV but the story teller is talking about himself saying “you” this and “you” that instead of saying “I”; I found it very confusing at first and that’s why I nearly quit, but like I said, I’m so glad that I kept reading.

This is a story of two friends-with-benefits who nearly miss an opportunity for the best thing to ever happen to them because they don’t really communicate with each other. They talk and kiss and f*ck but they don’t communicate what they are feeling for each other. The intimate scene was so moving, as was so much of the rest of the story.

At only 16,000 words this was a very quick read but it left a big impact on me. It’s the first story I’ve read by G.B Lindsey but I do have a couple more of her books in my vast digital library so I hope to read more soon.

I’ve read some other reviews for this and they do a much better job of expressing their feelings about the story than I am. It’s a good thing I’m not a writer because lately I’m having trouble even writing a book review that makes sense. I’ll close with saying I loved it.