A Most Familiar Sentiment

If done well, I love friends-to-lovers romances. What I love even more than that though, is pining, when one person is totally gone on the other and has been for awhile. That is Henry, totally gone on Edward - who, to afford freedom from his bullying family, must make a very advantageous match.

This book has pretty much everything I love and want more of in my romances: slow burn, one delightfully pining person (Henry) and one gorgeously flustered and confused person (Edward) that are best friends, tearful love confessions, cuddling in bed together long, long before sex enters the picture as well as not one, but two marriages of convenience between four queer people. Add in Crowley's usual delightful supporting cast and the only thing that could have made this book any better was if we had gotten Edward's point of view too.