Review: Say It Right by A. M. Arthur

12 September of 2016 by ButtonsMom2003

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

Ripped my heart out and put it back again - I loved it!!

Say It Right By A. M. Arthur

Genre: Contemporary New Adult, GLBTQ, MM Romance

Released: September 12, 2016

Publisher: Carina Press

Series: All Saints, Book 2

Synopsis

After his parents kicked him out for being gay, Marc Villegas lived on the streets before getting a second chance. Now he’s giving back by working at a shelter for LGBT teenagers—because helping fight their demons keeps his own at bay. Including his infatuation with the former best friend he’s sure is straight.

Anthony Romano hasn’t seen Marc since Marc left home eight years ago. In his confidant’s absence, Anthony turned to heroin. Now at rock bottom, he has an offer from Marc to help him get clean. Detox is hard and ugly, but not as hard as admitting the truth: he’s in love with Marc. Always has been.

Marc swore he’d never date an addict, but he never dreamed the one in question would be the man he’s always wanted to be with. As the two explore their feelings for each other, Marc faces a difficult choice. Say yes, and it could cost him his sobriety; say no, and it could cost him his heart.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Ripped my heart out and put it back again – I loved it!!

Say it Right is the second book in the All Saints series but it is also a standalone story. Marc Villegas has been sober and drug free for over four years. His parents threw him out when he came out while still a teenager. He went through some hard times before he hit rock bottom and finally got clean and sober. Now he helps run the All Saints shelter for LGBT teens so they don’t have to do what he did to survive.Anthony Romano had it all; he was going to be a soccer star. He and Marc were best friends and then Marc left. Anthony’s life just seemed to fall apart after that but he couldn’t admit why to anyone. He’s been in and out of rehab and is at his rock bottom when Anthony finds him dirty and drugged up living in an abandon gas station.

Marc has never stopped loving Anthony but he promised himself that he would never date an addict. Now Marc has to decide if he’s willing to break his promise to help the man he’s always wanted but never though he could have.

This book just about gutted me; I was almost sobbing in places. It was so hard to read about the things that both Marc and Anthony went through while they were addicts. Ms. Arthur treated this subject with frankness and compassion. I’ve never known a drug addict so I will have to trust that she researched the heck out of this subject in order to write this story. Her descriptive prose was compelling.

Anthony has a lot to overcome before Marc will trust him with his heart. Marc has to let go of demons from his past and let Anthony in. Stories that twist me up before I get to the HEA are my favorite kind and this one did a mighty fine job of putting me through the wringer.

I couldn’t put this one down once I started reading it and I can’t wait to read the upcoming books in this series..

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O Factor: Scorcher

All Saints Series

Come What May, Book 1

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About Author

A. M. Arthur

A.M. Arthur was born and raised in the same kind of small town that she likes to write about, a stone’s throw from both beach resorts and generational farmland. She’s been creating stories in her head since she was a child and scribbling them down nearly as long, in a losing battle to make the fictional voices stop. She credits an early fascination with male friendships (bromance hadn’t been coined yet back then) and “The Young Riders” with her later discovery of and subsequent love affair with m/m romance stories.

An avid reader of het romance, her first foray into reading published m/m romance (slash fanfic doesn’t count) is thanks to a Dear Author review of K.A. Mitchell’s CHASING SMOKE. After devouring K.A.’s existing backlist, she dove headfirst into other authors. While she prefers contemporary, she’ll occasionally sample an historical or SFF m/m romance.

A.M. wrote her first m/m stories in the guise of Kish fanfic (the Kyle/Fish romance from cancelled soap opera “One Life to Live.” As her stories were met with more and more positive feedback, A.M. was inspired to try her hand at creating original m/m romance. And the rest is history.

When not exorcising the voices in her head, she toils away in a retail job that tests her patience and gives her lots of story fodder. She can also be found in her kitchen, pretending she’s an amateur chef and trying to not poison herself or others with her cuisine experiments.

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