The Home Wrecker (The Goode Brothers, #2)

The Home Wrecker (The Goode Brothers, #2)

Sara Cate

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

I’ve been faithful long enough. I never claimed to be a good man, but I’ve always done what was expected of me. Find a nice girl. Get married. Have children. That was my duty as a good Christian man. And everything was going as planned when I met Briar. Beautiful. Charismatic. Sexy. But marriage is hard, and after seven years, I feel like I’m failing. Then, a figure from my past enters the picture. Dean Sheridan is cocky and charming. When this twenty-five-year-old needs a place to stay, I should turn him away—especially after I notice the spark between him and my wife. But I don’t. When I pressure him about his relationship with Briar, he does the last thing I expect. He dares me. He thinks he can take what’s mine. And if it’s a challenge he wants, it’s a challenge he’ll get. What started as a game becomes so much more. Between them. Between us. This isn’t how normal couples behave. The games we’re playing are dangerous. And the roles we’re playing are far more. But God help me, I can’t seem to stop. What we’re doing is wrong, but it feels so right, and before long, I don’t recognize the good husband I used to be.


From the Forum

No posts yet

Kick off the convo with a theory, question, musing, or update

Recent Reviews

Your rating:

  • Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

    Caleb and Briar are married and raising their daughter. They are so caught up in trying to have another baby that they don't really even realize that they aren't communicating or growing apart. When Caleb's younger brother's childhood friend, Dean, comes to stay in their apartment over the garage, both Caleb and Briar are forced to recognize that they have been denying a lot of truths about themselves and their relationship.

    There are spicy scenes between these three, of course, but there is so much more. I really don't normally like stories with cheating, but this one was done so differently that I wasn't really angry about it. It sounds wrong to say it just felt inevitable but that's show it felt. The support and reassurance that these three gave each other made them friends and then family. Becoming who you are supposed to be requires feeling safe and I liked that they could give that to each other. I laughed and I cried and that's a 5 star book.

    “Come in,” Dean calls, and when I open the door, I find him and Abby sitting on the couch, each of them with a video game controller in their hands and what looks like Grand Theft Auto playing on the screen. Shaking my head, I walk into the apartment and stand behind the couch as my six-year-old daughter hijacks a fictional Impala on the screen. “Briar would have your head if she knew you were letting her play this,” I say with a cold, hard stare in his direction. He lets out a laugh as he shrugs. “I didn’t let her pick up any prostitutes.” “Jesus,” I mutter to myself.

    0
    comments 0
    Reply
  • Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

    Surprisingly emotional and super steamy.

    Huge content warnings: Cancer, death of a parent (on page), cheating, infertility struggles, Assault (physical causing hospitalization, on page), queer phobia (slurs alluded to but not stated)

    0
    comments 0
    Reply
  • Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

    0
    comments 0
    Reply
  • View all reviews
    Community recs if you liked this book...