A beautiful love story between soulmates. The tenderness, the quiet love, the longing... These two were made for each other. I loved every second of it

📌Reread, April 2025: updated my rating from 4.5 to 5⭐ This book hasn't left me since I first read it 5 months ago. Having finished rereading it just now, I can safely say it's become one of my favorite romances ever. The pinning between those two is top notch, their love is comforting, warm and so so sweet. And the best way I can describe the reading experience, is that it's like lying outside on a blanket during a summer night, watching the stars with a loved one by my side.

What ties two souls together? Friendship, love, family?

This story is a journey. It made me experience every emotions the characters did. I loved, I despaired, I hurt, I trusted.

Told in dual POV and past/present timelines in the first part, it seemlessly shows us how the bond between Gem and Josha grew to something bigger than friendship and how easy it can be to either feed or starve that bond depending on your mental health and the choices you make.

It doesn't shy away from how hard it can be at times to love someone that suffers from addiction or to be the addict and see the destruction you can weave in your own and in your loved ones lives.

A story of love, addiction, growth, forgiveness and maybe, redemption and peace.

"He tastes like destiny"

This book is why I read romance.

I highly recommend this book and I can't wait to see what the author writes next.

Maybe we should try locking the Johns of this world in their own yellow wallpapered rooms and see how it goes?

This story packs a punch in very few pages. So much, and yet so little, has changed since this story was published and that's the true horror of it.