Two interesting men with drastically different occupations meet in the exotic local of Ibiza. How can this not be the set up for a hot steamy romance? Well, it's not really. It seems the author may have intended it to be a a sotry of escaping the past, healing and survival-- a journey to a new start.

I found that Christopher and Lucas were constantly over shadowed by their absent but ever present ex-boyfriends, Dan and Pedro. At times I felt like I knew their characters (even though we only know them by second-hand description) better than Christopher and Lucas, the focus of the story.

Liam Livings is a British author-- and as I've found on other occasions-- sometimes the passion the British writers are expressing doesn't come through in their modern romance writing. Is it a conservative thing? Anyway, I never found the passion between these two characters-- more a sense of clinging to one another to survive. Just getting through the days one by one.

This story moves slowly, much of the time focusing on the repetitive re-sharing of their negative past and doubtful future. It's not unpleasant reading-- but one would hope for some ecstatic exclamation of hope and desire-- achieving some triumph over the past feelings holding C and L down-- but we only get a lukewarm 'maybe'.

I received an ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed the premise of this book. Lucas, a dancer, and Christopher, a banker-turned-travel-journalist, meet in Ibiza and are instantly attracted to each other. Both had previous negative relationship experiences, and Lucas tries to help Christopher learn to live a little. Both experience insecurity in their developing relationship, but they end up getting through it. I do wish there were more love scenes; Christopher had an odd hesitance about it which I didn’t think was explained too well. I feel that the first half of the book was stronger but still enjoyed the second half well enough. I do wish the book was a little longer so we could see more of Lucas and Christopher’s relationship. Overall I enjoyed it and would recommend giving it a read.