We Burn Beautiful by Lance Lansdale

Book Review

4.5 stars

What a beautiful debut novel from this author it captures you from the beginning. From what starts as fun, light-hearted tale turns into such a heart-wrenching separation. When Kent returns to his hometown after 20 years, you can feel his angst in choices and what needs to be done to find his happiness.

Once their pasts are flayed open, they begin what is not exactly a healthy relationship, and yet it works for them. They need the other to survive. It's a painful yet still downright funny story. Two things that I didn't think could go together and yet here we are, and it works in this case!

Cannot wait to see what this newbie author brings to us next!

Book overview

We went into this knowing we'd get burned. And God, we burned so beautifully.

Kent Fox is not okay. Thanks to a botched selfie swap, thousands of his colleagues have borne witness to a photo of his sock-covered crotch. Branded a professional pariah, he's had to move home with his mother, and the only job the 38-year-old former executive can land is stocking shelves at a grocery store. To make matters worse, his new boss is none other than his ex-gay ex-boyfriend.

To everyone else, Gray Collins is the perfect Christian. He manages the local Pick-n-Save, attends West Clark Apostolic Church four times a week, and he's just bought a ring for the woman who has agreed to help him hide his homosexuality. To Kent, however, Gray is the same coward he was twenty years ago. The boy with a list of seventeen reasons why he deserved Kent’s heart. The man who did nothing as his brother ripped Kent from his arms and out of his life for two decades.

Forced together, Kent and Gray will have to confront the trauma that tore them apart, and all the old feelings that never truly died. Kent may not have a list of seventeen reasons for Gray, but he has three words that are just as true as they've ever been.

We Burn Beautiful is a single-POV, second chance slow burn romance about two childhood boyfriends who never had the chance to shine. There's pining, there's passion, and there's a group of 80-year-old Apostolic debutantes ready to help Kent Fox find his forever.

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