Platonic Rulebook

Saxon James — 2022

Griff:Walking away from my marriage was my idea of a fresh start.My kid is in college, my ex-wife and I are on good terms ? but being single in my forties is a world different to being single in my teens.I'm thankful for my best friend, Heath. He's got my back like he always does and is ready to take me out and show me how the bachelor life is done.He was never supposed to show me literally.After we wake up in bed together, I can't stop looking at him differently, and one thing becomes abundantly clear.I talk a big talk about wanting to be single, but my platonic rule book has gone out the window.Heath:When my best friend comes to me for help post-divorce, I'm only too happy to impart my wisdom to him.After all, Griffin isn't my type, but even I can tell he's a complete lumbersnack. Good with his hands, kind eyes, and a killer smile. All the guys and gals are gonna eat him alive.But the more time we spend together, the less "not my type" he becomes. I'm the one who can't get enough of him.Neither of us is interested in a relationship, so what's a little fun between friends?We both know the score.

Reviews

Aishling@nilghias

Jan 28, 2023

I’ll be honest I skipped a lot of the text between dialogue. I wouldn’t say this was a bad story but it just seem to be a rinse and repeat of all is SJ’s recent works. There’s always an Event™ that the characters plan at the start, which is when we can expect them to get together for the first time. There is always a Problem™ or two, and we can see the solution from the start and are just waiting for the characters to figure it out too. There is also always an Issue™ that temporarily keeps the couple from being together/going public. The characters personalities are also so similar, and you could honestly just change the names of the characters in the sex scenes from the last four books and you wouldn’t even notice a difference. Heath and Griff were cute together but the change from platonic to romance soulmates was way too quick, so quick that one page theyre just physically attracted to each other and then next they can’t imagine life without each other. Neither of them every think how weird it is to go from platonic love to romantic love (or maybe I just missed it on account of my page skipping) but if I suddenly fell in love with my best friend of 20 years I’d at least have to think about how strange it was once or twice. I am still gonna keep reading SJ’s books and I’m really looking forward to Art and Joey’s eventual story (and maybe Felix’s too?) because I feel like their personalities will offer a bit of a change from the usual.