Release Day Review: Sunshine and Shadows by K.C. Wells

10 September of 2020 by ButtonsMom2003

Sunshine and Shadows By K.C. Wells

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Friends-to-lovers

Released: September 10, 2020

Publisher: Self-Published

Length: 202 pages

Cover Design: Meredith Russell

Synopsis

From kids to adults.
From BFFs to lovers.
Except life is never that simple.

Jamie:
Oh My God, Stephen Taylor grew up to be gorgeous.
He called me feather-brain like he did when we were kids, and it was like he’d never left.
Except back then I wasn’t in a wheelchair.
Come on, Stephen. I haven’t changed. I’m still that glass-half-full kid you remember, honest.
Please, be different? See past the freaking chair?
Of course, what would make it goddamn perfect would be if you turned out to be gay, as well as tall and beautiful.
Hey, a guy can dream, right?

Stephen:
Oh my God, he hasn’t changed.
He’s still full of sunshine like he was as a kid.
He wants to know what life was like in California, but there’s only so much I can share.
I’m not going to tell him what I’ve been through. He doesn’t need to know I have lousy taste in men.
Why couldn’t just one of them have been like you, Jamie?
Because I could so fall in love with a guy like you.
Only one thing wrong with that – you wouldn’t want a guy like me

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Such a sweet story, I loved it!

Sunshine & Shadows is a wonderful story and I’m so glad that KC wrote this book. If this subject has been tackled in a romance, with as much depth as she did in this book, I haven’t run across it.Friends-to-lovers is tied with second chance for my favorite romance tropes. Although Stephen and Jamie didn’t have a romantic relationship when they were parted (they were only kids), the story still has that second chance feel because of them reconnecting after 13 years apart.

I love the way the subject matter was treated and at the same time I was so sad for Jamie because guys he had a date with couldn’t see past the chair to give him second date. Stephen is still recovering from a string of abusive relationships that have caused him to have no self-confidence when it comes to dating. Fate brought them back together again and they were perfect for each other.

The personality K.C. Wells gave Jamie was perfect. It kept the serious parts of the story from becoming too somber without taking away from the seriousness of the subject matter. I shed a few sad tears while reading this but there were far more happy ones shed – my favorite kind of story!