Something Like Hope

Something Like Hope - Kris T. Bethke 2.5 stars

I really really liked this book. Right until the last page. Right up until the point it dawned on me that the author was really trying to sell this ending as a HEA…

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I'm not going to come out."
"I know."
"I mean it, Aaron. It's selfish of me, I know, but I won't put my career in jeopardy. I need to keep working, I need the roles I get, and if I came out I wouldn't get them. You know I wouldn't."
"I know," I repeated, this time soothingly. I rubbed the tense muscles in the back of his neck. "I told you before that I understood that, and I meant it. I would never ask that of you.”


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