We Could Be So Good

 

Author: Cat Sebastian
Title: We Could Be So Good
Publisher: Avon
Date Published: 06/06/2023

Read Dates: 04/03/2023- 04/05/2023
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

This book… I almost have no words. I am madly in love with this book.

I don’t read a lot of historical romance these days, and I don’t read a lot of MM romance either (not due to lack of interest/support but in an over-abundance of caution to avoid authors who fetishize LGBTQ+ lives and experiences). I am so glad I requested this ARC though, and that I got approved bc I would have missed out on this.

The book is dual POV- switching between Nick and Andy as they try to navigate their relationship in a time where being openly gay was illegal. They both have a lot of growing to do on their own as well, and it all comes together in a well written, sometimes funny, sometimes thought provoking way.


What I loved about this one:
✔️ Friends-to-lovers
✔️ Found family
✔️ Grumpy/sunshine
✔️ HEA/HFN that didn’t gloss over the reality of the time period
✔️ Nick & Andy were a team: it’s not that the book was drama/angst free, but the drama didn’t come from them hurting one another

Nick Russo has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood to a reporting job at one of the city's biggest newspapers. But the late 1950s are a hostile time for gay men, and Nick knows that he can't let anyone into his life. He just never counted on meeting someone as impossible to say no to as Andy.

Andy Fleming's newspaper-tycoon father wants him to take over the family business. Andy, though, has no intention of running the paper. He's barely able to run his life--he's never paid a bill on time, routinely gets lost on the way to work, and would rather gouge out his own eyes than deal with office politics. Andy agrees to work for a year in the newsroom, knowing he'll make an ass of himself and hate every second of it.

Except, Nick Russo keeps rescuing Andy: showing him the ropes, tracking down his keys, freeing his tie when it gets stuck in the ancient filing cabinets. Their unlikely friendship soon sharpens into feelings they can't deny. But what feels possible in secret--this fragile, tender thing between them--seems doomed in the light of day. Now Nick and Andy have to decide if, for the first time, they're willing to fight.