You know that brother and sister you know who are way too close and it makes you uncomfortable? (Like Danny the Yeti and his sister from Friends?) That’s Joe and Eric. I know some reviewers didn’t, but maybe I was so tired of the main characters, I grabbed hold of the only thing that wasn’t completely tainted with their creepy bullshit.Įric is such a massive pile of mommy issues, almost-sister-issues, overprotective alpha-hole issues, misogynist-in-denial issues, yes-I have-a-boner-for-you-but-we’re-still-just-friends issues and just generally fucking infuriating that I could not give a fuck about him.

That is the extent of what I found good about this book. I liked that she did what work she wanted, how and when she wanted and knew when she wanted out too, regardless of his bullshit.

Get a new partner or STFU and do your job and let her do hers. Fuck you, dude! If you’re distracted by working with her, that’s your problem not hers. The only thing I liked about her was that she didn’t take Eric’s crap about being too weak and too much of a liability for him professionally because she was a woman. Why? Who knows?! I just CANNOT buy into the whole she’s-unbelievably-sexy-but-isn’t-even-aware-of-it premise. Anyone who can’t deal with her is just point-blank dropped like a hot potato. Joe is the only female that either of the brothers could ever see themselves ending up with. Every other woman who is dateable is crazy, clingy, possessive, too-into-herself, just not abso-fucking-lutely perfect or what have you. In fact, she is the only “positive” female figure in the book. And just because I am 394% done with this “book” I am littering my review with sassy Harry and sassy Snape gifs/pics. Let me try to get through the list as concisely as I can though (which is to say not at all). If I was reading this on my Kindle and not my laptop, I’d have had to highlight the whole book for problems I had with it. Genuinely my thoughts while reading this one. How will they deal with the suddenly torn-down boundaries of their erstwhile friendship, along with their sometimes-dangerous jobs as EMTs, Alice’s disastrous matchmaking and Nathan’s own love troubles? Of course, this cannot go on forever, and so all of the secret feelings they never knew they had may finally be coming out. All the relationships they’ve ever had have never quite measured up to their friendship. They do everything together-work, play, whatever- except for actually being together. His mom, Alice, is “Mom” to her too, his brother, Nathan, is her brother, and they’re “just best friends and nothing else” and have been for ages, despite the palpable, always-there sexual tension. Plot: Joe was abandoned by her mother at a young age and practically adopted by the family of her childhood best friend, Eric.

Sudden Response by R.L. Mathewson