As a people-pleasing gay man, thirty-year-old music lawyer Domenic Marino is an expert at code-switching between the hypermasculine and ultrafeminine worlds of his two soon-to-be-wed best friends: handsome sports attorney Patrick Cooper and glamorous beauty editor Kate Wallace. But this summer—reeling from his own failed engagement and tasked with attending both their bachelor and bachelorette parties at the Cooper family’s idyllic shoreline estate in Mystic, Connecticut—Dom is anxious about having to play both sides.
By Lília
Hilarious romcom in which the gay best friend of both groom and bride finds himself torn between a rock and a hard place and learns that being everything to everybody won’t work.
Dom is heartbroken after his fiancé decides they won’t be married after all. The worst part is that both his best friends are getting married—to each other!—and he’s in the middle of the usual drama.
Wanting to be there for both, he gets involved in too many lies and much intrigue. Things are about to get even more problematic when he ends up hooking up with his dream man, who doesn’t want to have anything out in the open.
Dom is a typical people pleaser, and learning to let it go and be open about his real feelings is a difficult ride for him. He’ll have to deal with all those lies he tends to tell not to offend anyone (but in the end offending everybody!) and to relearn his value as a person.
Hilarious in tone, this is nevertheless quite a serious book about people pleasing, the lies we tell and learning to value our lives and achievements without demeaning ourselves. And that you don’t necessarily need an HEA (happily ever after) when an HFN (happy for now) is even better!
If you like a funny romcom with a gay main character, this book might just be for you.
