We Could Be So Good was one of my favorite books of 2023 and I knew I had to get my hands on this one. 🙏 To be honest, I didn't pay that much attention to Mark in that book but now I'm going to have to do a reread and pick up all the crumbs! I absolutely loved Mark as a character. His journey through grief hit so close to home for me and the scene with the cherries absolutely ruined me. The book in general and his and Eddie's growing relationship is just so soft and tender and precious, filled with snippets of mundane beauty that tug on your heartstrings in just the right way. I don't know how Cat Sebastian manages to put so much emotion into these little moments but she does and it's one of the things I absolutely love about her books.

I also love how vivid the side characters are in all of her stories. Everybody feels so tangible and broken and well crafted, and they all work perfectly together. I would have loved to see more of our favorites from WBCSG of course but I loved meeting all the new characters like Eddie's teammates and his mom!

Anyways, I'm not sure there will ever be a book Cat Sebastian can write that I'll ever dislike. If there is, it's probably a silent plea for help.

Thank you to Avon & Netgalley for the eARC!

Cat Sebastian writes stories in a way that pulls you in and keeps you there. She is a master at the grumpy sunshine dynamic and I'm a sucker for it. I love a grumpy snarky character and Mark is that in spades. Mark is snarky but also has a huge heart and Eddie brings out the best in him. The grief as part of the story is done very well, its shown realistically in what it is to grieve alone and in secret. The story is heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time.

This story is long, and maybe a little too long. But it's not boring, we get to see the relationship develop and we also get to see how relationships outside of the romantic relationships.

The SWOONIEST slow burn to ever slow burn romance that I couldn't put down!

You Should Be So Lucky is a historical fiction gay romance set in New York in the 60s. It tackles tough subjects like grief, fitting in and finding your place in this world. The main characters are a recently traded baseball player in the middle of a horrible batting slump and a barely working reporter who somehow ends up covering baseball.

I LOVED this book so much. It took me a minute to get used to the writing style, but once I did I was ALL IN. Their quiet romance tugged on my heartstrings through the entire read and I was rooting for them to find their footing the entire time. I loved being thrown into the baseball world at that time (huge baseball fan) and the side characters were memorable and showed families can be created, not just consist of the one you were born into.

Read if you like:
- grumpy / sunshine
- found family
- sports romance (specifically baseball)
- queer romance

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to be an early reader! All thoughts are my own.

You can always trust Cat Sebastian to write queer love stories that are inextricable from the fabric of life, queer or otherwise, in the time period it is set in. Whether it be Regency or in this case, America in the early 60s. It is always a gentle and meaningful meditation on what it is to live at the intersection of multitudinous Otherness. While I'm not the biggest fan or follower of baseball or any ball sports, that wasn't as much of an issue I was afraid it might be. Which goes to show how little the world has progressed in terms of how isolating and heteronormative the world of ball.sports still is for queer men. Eddie, however, is a delightfully sweet himbo and his earnestness, even in the face of public scrutiny and perceived failure, is as refreshing as his complete self-assuredness about being queer even in this time period. I adored Mark and his queer book club agenda in We Could Be So Good. But a grieving and healing Mark, relearning how to live and love again, was a beautiful and gratifying journey to behold. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop on someone getting outed, etc, and I'm so grateful that the author chose instead a journey towards finding and learning to trust a supportive community of allies and queer found family.

4 Stars Queer historical romance icon Cat Sebastian is back with You Should Be So Lucky, a slow burn, grumpy/sunshine queer romance between a baseball player and reporter in 1960 New York.

Despite an amazing rookie season, this year is shaping up to be the worst baseball season of Eddie O'Leary's life. He's been traded to an expansion team where his new teammates won't talk to him after he mouthed off about them, he's homesick, and he can't hit a ball to save his life. On thin ice, he's ordered to do a series of interviews with uptight reporter Mark Bailey. Mark is an arts writer, not a sports reporter, though he hasn't been writing much over the last year while mourning his late partner. The last thing Mark wants to do is write about the obnoxious new short stop for the New York Robbins. As Eddie and Mark spend more time together for the interviews, they recognize what they have in common--not only that they are both queer, but that they are both lonely souls. The two give into their attraction, but Mark has sworn to never be someone's secret again and Eddie can't be out as a professional athlete. Is what they can offer each other enough to make it last?

You Should Be So Lucky was an incredibly sweet and tenderhearted story. Though there's grief and loneliness, the story is hopeful and feels like being wrapped up in a warm blanket full of love. I was just as invested in the journeys of the side characters like George and Tony as I was in Mark and Eddie's story. Cat Sebastian doesn't ignore or minimize the reality that queer folks faced in this time period. It's honest about the fear of being discovered or outed, without piling on too much. This truly was such a lovely book and feels like the perfect story to get out of a reading slump!

MM - historical (retro) romance - white MCs - low steam - pov third dual - celebrity sports (baseball) MMC - child free - class gap (wealthy) - closeted - found family - opposites attract - workplace - widowed - ARC - 5 stars.

This books fits in so well with We Could Be So Good. There's many of the same themes and I was thrilled to see the couple from WCBSG as prominent side characters. Eddie starts as a really downtrodden baseball player who's being shunned by his team thanks to his temper. Once that turns around (found family vibes!) Eddie is such a sweet himbo. Mark is classic exasperated man who is also grieving. The book is low angst with the exception of being a queer person in the 1960s, especially someone who's a public figure like Eddie.

Bonus points for Eddie's midwestern mom who comes through when he needs her. Double bonus points for the adorable dog.

I loved We Could Be So Good, so I was very excited to learn there was another M/M romance by Sebastian set in the same world. I really enjoyed You Should Be So Lucky as well, but I'm not sure if I would place it as an equal to WCBSG. I loved Eddie and very much relate to Mark. I'm not sure I would classify this as a "grumpy/sunshine," but would wholeheartedly agree with the "golden retriever/grumpy barn cat." In only that when we first meet Eddie, is is definitely not "sunshine," and so it immediately took that out of my mind. I did feel like time moved a bit weird in this novel. A good chunk of time would pass without much explanation sometimes, or I would lean later that we had indeed jumped a good ways forward.
In the end, I still love Cat Sebastian and will continue buying her works.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for providing an eARC in exchange for a fair and honest review!

This was such a sweet, fun, and earnest historical romance. It was my first Cat Sebastian book, but certainly won't be my last. The dynamic between Mark and Eddie was such a joy to read, from their banter to their more vulnerable moments. I appreciated the dual-POV, because being in the heads of each of these characters and understanding their motivations and thoughts--especially the things left unsaid, partially due to the time in which this novel is set--made me appreciate their relationship even more. The novel seemed well-researched, from baseball specifics to the experience of being queer in the 50s & 60s, especially if you didn't want to live in complete secrecy. Something is keeping me from five stars, though it's difficult to pinpoint; I suspect I felt the plot/progression of the story could have been more compelling. I found myself reading mostly because I wanted to see Mark and Eddie get together and see their relationship grow, but I often sensed a lack of weight to the story around the two of them and wasn't fully buying into the stakes. It's just my personal preference that certain elements would have been more rounded out. Perhaps it was merely my own reading pace or lack of thorough baseball interest. That said, this was a delightful read, and I always love a black cat x golden retriever pairing! These two satisfy that urge entirely, and I will be thinking about them for a long while.

Cat Sebastian is on a roll. Has knocked it out of the park, if you will!! Her last couple books have absolutely slayed me and this one was no exception.

As per usual, the world the characters inhabit is incredibly vibrant and tangible. It’s a stunning love letter to 1960 NYC, historic baseball, and our queer elders. Reading this book is like stepping through a doorway to the past, except it’s populated by dumb gay jocks and long suffering journalists.

The side characters are all delightful and I was invested in every aspect of the story. Each sentence was so rich and emotionally poignant, I lost track of how many times I teared up. Cat continues to describe this book as “no plot, just vibes”, and that is spot on in the absolute best way. And what vibes they are!! Totally off the charts. It’s reminiscent of the best character-driven, vignette-riddled fanfiction I have read.

Eddie and Mark may be my new favorite Sebastian couple, which is an insane thing to say. They are so perfectly matched for each other, it was easy to see their relationship trajectory from page one. You should be so lucky indeed!!! Time to go read The Haunting of Hill House.

Oh, what a fantastic, effervescent book! It’s taken me several days to come up with a review because I’ve simply been ruminating on how much I enjoyed it and how much of a spark it ignited in me. Not to be overly personal, but as a queer baseball fan, this book rocked my world. Sebastian’s characters leap from the page directly into the forefront of your mind, and she has created a world where one can feel equal parts safe and comforted. I laughed, I cried (multiple times), and I already want to revisit it. Despite all my tries, it’s hard to put into words how special this book is beyond those very simple ones: goodness, how special it is.

Cat Sebastian has another home run (pun intended) on her hands with “You Should Be So Lucky,” the follow up to one of my favorite novels from 2023, “We Could Be So Good.” This slow burn, historical romance hits all the right notes with two main characters, Mark and Eddie, and the side characters (and of course, Lula) you’re rooting for. When grumpy reporter Mark falls in love with an up and coming baseball player, they both have to decide if the other is enough in a world where being out and proud is scary and dangerous.

From the very beginning, I was hooked — which is funny, because I’m not a baseball fan. Sebastian does a nice job writing about a baseball player and the sport that you needn’t have any prior experience or interest (really) to enjoy it.

Like “So Good,” “So Lucky” is set in a time period we rarely see in LGBTQ romance books — too many times, we are either dealing with modern stories or stuck in the 80s dealing with heavier themes. Hey, if Sebastian wants to move the next one (please let there be a next one) to the 70s, you’ll have plenty of readers happy.

If you’re a fan of lovable characters, a tender storyline set in a New York City bursting with motion, check this novel out. Don’t let the slow burn stop you from enjoying - the journey and destination are worth it. Thank you to NetGalley, Avon and Harper Voyager, for the ARC.

But sometimes there is no hope. Illness worsens, accidents strike, you lose people you love. It’s inevitable, as Cat Sebastian’s blunt, beautiful midcentury historical makes clear: “Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way.”

At the start of YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY (Avon, 382 pp., paperback, $18.99), the journalist Mark Bailey is only 16 months out from the death of his partner. He’s coasting. It’s only when he’s assigned to write about a flailing baseball player on the sad-sack New York Robins that he finds something to connect to: “What’s happening to Eddie O’Leary is an end. That’s something Mark knows about; that’s something Mark can write about.”

Eddie, “a wad of bad ideas rolled into the approximate shape and size of a professional baseball player,” doesn’t know why he is suddenly terrible at a game he loves. He’s lonely and new to the city and shunned by the teammates he bad-mouthed to the press. He’s grateful for Mark’s attention even though he knows it’s an assignment, and he’s quick to notice all the little kind impulses Mark would die rather than admit to. Their romance is like watching a Labrador puppy fall in love with a pampered Persian cat, all eager impulse on one side and arch contrariness on the other.

People think the ending is what defines a romance, and it does, but that’s not what a romance is for. The end is where you stop, but the journey is why you go. Whether we’re talking about love, baseball or life itself, Sebastian’s book bluntly scorns measuring success merely by end results: “The crowd is hopeful, but it isn’t the kind of hope that comes with a fighting chance. It’s a hope that doesn’t need success to validate it. It’s something like affection, maybe with a bit of loyalty mixed in.”

Hoping, loving are things you do for their own sake, to mark being a human among other humans. Or as Eddie puts it: “Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s f——-, but he’s trying.”

I can think of no better summary of why we do any art. If you read one romance this spring, make it this one.

I really, really liked this is mid-century queer baseball romance. The baseball background is great vibes, the supporting cast is interesting and likable, and Lulu is the best dog ever.

But I just didn't love it as much as We Could Be So Good. Eddie is so wholesome and precious - but just less so than Andy. And Mark has that grumpy charm, but he's less lovable than Nick. Reading We Could Be So Good just before this made me see all the similarities and slight differences in the two stories, and the first book is easily better in pretty much every way besides insufficient baseball energy.

To be clear, You Should Be So Lucky is still great and sweet and wholesome and very enjoyable. I strongly recommend reading both, just not back to back!

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for providing me with a free eARC in exchange for my honest review.

You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

I love Cat Sebastian’s books and this one didn’t disappoint. The first book in this series, We Could Be So Good was excellent as well. The leads here are Eddie, a baseball player and Mark, a newspaper writer who is drafted as a sports writer. His topic is Eddie’s early career slump and his new team. The year is 1960. Sebastian’s books are sexy and sweet. Eddie is a Sunny soul while Mark is maybe a grumpy worrier but they are not made to a mold and will delight you and each other.

Quickly, you can imagine all the woes these would be lovers are up against but with wit, courage, affection, humor and friends, there is a way to love. They are lovable and real with the sweetest foibles. You can’t help but to fall for them both and root for them. Endearing and hot, great combinations. The details of the time and the other characters with their own quirks adds to the appeal.

I highly recommend you read this book asap. Some of the characters including Mark are in the first book which ups the enjoyment another notch but it can be read as an unbelievably, amazing stand-alone. I thank the author, HarpersCollins Publishers, and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this great read.

Thank you to @netgalley and @avonbooks for the digital ARC copy of this book.

Friends, I loved this book. I was head over heels for the first book in the series (We Could Be So Good), and so it’s no big surprise that this one hit a “home run” with me! See what I did there? Baseball romance. Home Run? I made a SPORTS JOKE, folks.

Ahem, okay, so yes, this book, set in 1960, is the story of Mark, a journalist who is grieving the loss of his long term partner, William. And it’s the story of Eddie, a rookie player who just got traded to a new team and is in a terrible batting slump. ... and they fight crime! Am I dating myself as terribly ancient with that? Maybe I am. I’m keeping it anyway.

Mark is assigned to write a series of stories about Eddie, and Eddie is pretty much instantly smitten with him. A lot of the story is Mark trying desperately to convince Eddie that being with Mark would be a terrible idea because it’ll ruin Eddie’s career. And the rest is Eddie completely ignoring Mark’s grumpy tendencies and being stubborn about what he wants (a future in baseball and Mark’s affections). Also there is an ADORABLE dog named Lula who is SUCH A GOOD GIRL.

Favorite Parts - Mark being a TOTAL tsundere and pretending he doesn’t have feelings for Eddie, the way Mark’s grieving for the loss of William is handled was so heartbreaking and beautiful, Eddie being an idiot loud mouthed goofball, the friends that surround both Mark and Eddie and help support them.

Read This If You Love - Found Family, Grumpy Sunshine, Historical Romance, Second Chances, Baseball, and Dogs Who Know What Family Is

I'm OBSESSED with this book. Literally, figuratively obsessed. What a great way to break the no 5-star read hiatus!!

As Eddie describes Mark's suit as soft, similarly, describe both Eddie & Mark to be the softest people to ever exist. Their relationship and chemistry were delicate, precious, heartwarming, & extremely comforting. When Eddie starts reading a book which Mark is reading only because he could talk to him about something other than sports melted my heart.

Another charm of this book is its set in the '60s. Mark & Eddie talking to each other hours over the payphone was fascinating. And not just that I loved how delicately they handled this growing attraction & relationship for that decade. Both had so much internal turmoil but I was glad they found each other. They balanced each other & loved each other with everything they've got.

I'll be thinking about this lovestory for days to come.

Thank you Netgalley and publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Set in the same world as We Could Be So Good, Cat Sebastian’s You Should Be So Lucky is another gorgeously romantic and tender story that, while dealing with some heavy topics, manages to be warm, funny, honest and uplifting - and reminds us that although life might suck at times, it can also be wonderful, especially when you find that one special person who can lighten the load.

It’s 1960, and rising baseball star Eddie O’Leary was having a great season with the Kansas City Athletics when he found out, on live television no less, that he was being traded to the New York Robins, a brand new team languishing at or near the bottom of the league. Not surprisingly, his reaction wasn’t the best, and his invective-filled outburst – also relayed live – made for big news up and down the country. To make things worse, he hasn’t played a decent game since and is experiencing a slump that might well be career-ending, his team-mates are ignoring him, and he’s still living in a crappy hotel room, mostly because he doesn’t think he’ll be sticking around long enough to get himself a place of his own.

When Andy Fleming, editor of the Chronicle, approaches arts writer Mark Bailey and asks him to consider penning a high-brow sports-based feature for the paper’s new weekend magazine, Mark is sceptical, to say the least. Andy wants to publish a weekly diary following one of the city’s ball players over the course of the season, but Mark isn’t particularly interested ghostwriting for a ball player, and when Andy tells him that the player he has in mind is Eddie O’Leary, Mark is even less so; he can’t think of anything more likely to get someone to throw their paper directly into the nearest trash can. But Andy is tenacious. He reckons there’s more to Eddie than the headlines suggest, and is sure that Mark is absolutely the man for the job. Mark still isn’t convinced until, at home, he watches the Robins’ game on television and realises that whatever is going on with Eddie O’Leary is a disaster – and that maybe here is something he can write about after all.

The last thing Eddie expects, when he’s summoned to the manager’s office, is to be told he’s to take part in a series of interviews for the Chronicle. He can’t do anything but agree to it, of course, but he can’t help hoping, when the reporter doesn’t show up in the locker-room after the next game, that the plan has fallen through. And then he notices the man standing apart from all the other sportswriters, leaning gracefully against the end of stall and turning the pages of a book, seemingly untroubled by the surrounding chaos. Eddie is completely blindsided by the other man’s casual poise and handsome face – even though Eddie has turned not noticing handsome men (especially in locker rooms) into an art form – but manages to get through the introductions without babbling something ridiculous. But when Bailey suggests they should get dinner, Eddie blurts out a ‘no’ so fast as to be rude – his teammates have enough reasons to hate him without thinking he’s cosying up to a sports reporter. Realising he’s put his foot in it, he quickly suggests he and Bailey meet the next morning instead – although he doesn’t stick around long enough to actually arrange a place and time. When morning arrives, and feeling embarrassed at having behaved like such a dick the previous day, Eddie decides the stadium is where he’ll most likely find the reporter – and is surprised when he steps from the elevator into the lobby of his hotel to find Mark there waiting for him.

As was the case with We Could Be So Good, there’s not a lot of plot here, and the focus is entirely on the characters and their developing slow-burn romance.The story that follows those awkward initial interactions as Mark and Eddie spend the next few months getting to know each other and falling in love, is full of incredible chemistry and gentleness and understanding while at the same time dealing with themes of grief and loss and loneliness, and about what it means to be queer at this point in time. The author does a fantastic job of showcasing the challenges faced by these characters in trying to balance their desire to live authentically while not opening themselves – and those they associate with – up to bigotry, discrimination and, possibly, physical harm.

At first glance, Mark and Eddie are very different men. Mark is prickly and elegant and precise where Eddie is sunshiny, big-hearted and garrulous (and apt to put his foot in his mouth), but scratch just a little beneath the surface, and they have more in common than even they realise at first; they’re both terribly lonely and are dealing with different kinds of grief. Mark lost his long-term partner very suddenly a year earlier and has been somewhat adrift ever since, and Eddie is grieving the loss of the life he knew and, potentially, his entire career - and yet somehow, all their ragged edges just fit together in ways that help them both to begin to heal and start living again. Mark isn’t good at opening up (understatement!) but Eddie is surprisingly perceptive and sees him as no-one ever has before, and Mark does the same for Eddie. Watching them enjoy a kind of quiet domesticity while slowly learning to lean on each other and let themselves love one another is just so very satisfying and lovely.

There’s a strong cast of secondary characters here, too, including George Allen, the much older, grizzled sports reporter who befriends Mark, and Eddie’s teammates and team manager – a former player who was dragged out of retirement to manage the team between benders. The author builds a strong sense of camaraderie between the members of the team and shows them learning to work together to improve their game and their chances. I know nothing about baseball, but I really liked the sense of this group of disparate players gradually becoming a cohesive unit that the author evokes.

I also liked the subtle exploration of the complexities of what it means to be out or closeted at a time when being openly queer was not only illegal but could be dangerous. Mark’s partner was headed for high public office so Mark had to be very careful almost all the time not to do or say anything that might cause suspicion, while Eddie knows queerness and professional sports don’t mix even as he longs for that part of him to be somehow recognised. As with Nick and Andy, neither man can be properly ‘out’, but what they can be is open with a select group of people who know what they are to each other – which I imagine must have been how many queer people were able to live and love as they chose at this time. It feels very realistic and period appropriate.

I can’t put my finger on why, but You Should Be So Lucky doesn’t quite reach the heights of We Could Be So Good, even though it’s a fantastic read and thoroughly deserving of DIK status. The writing is excellent, the character development is superb, and the slow-burn romance is full of genuine emotion, caring and decency. It’s one of those books you’ll finish reading with a heartfelt sigh and a smile on your face, and I heartily recommend it.

A special thank you to Avon & NetGalley for an e-arc of You Should Be So Lucky in exchange for an honest review!

**No Spoilers
There is something inherently romantic about attending a baseball game. From arriving to the stadium to the 7th inning stretch, there is a ritual preformed at each game that you cannot help but to feel sentimental about the whole thing, and that feeling certainly translates in Cat Sebastian's You Should Be So Lucky. I first want to say how much I adored the 1960s, NYC setting that YSBSL takes places in, as Sebastian really grounds these characters to the atmosphere and society of the day. In many ways, NYC is the third main character of YSBSL.

As for the other two main characters, Eddie and Mark, living inside their heads (even for a short amount of time) was a comfort in itself. Eddie is sweet, sensitive, but also has a short-fuse that gets him into trouble before the book even starts. Mark is particular, honest (to a fault, perhaps), but also pragmatic about the world in which he lives and must navigate. I thought that the progression of these Eddie and Mark's relationship was not only natural, but inevitable. I liked how Sebastian used their different backgrounds, slight age gap, occupations, and family circumstances to show how their understandings of the world have not only shaped how they view society, but themselves in relation to it, and to how they in turn see their relationship progressing privately and publicly.

A quick read, I was both racing through this book to see what would happen next, and at the same time disappointed that it had to end so soon. I wish we had gotten to know the characters of Lilian, Maureen, Andy, and Nick on a deeper level, but I thoroughly enjoyed the glimpses of Mark's friends and confidantes throughout YSBSL. As for Eddie, the members of the Robins organization not only had me laugh out loud a few times (especially thinking of Tony) but to also show the complexities, trials, and tribulations of professional athletes in the early to mid 20th century, especially when thinking about and discussing race, sexuality, and substance abuse. I think my only main critique would be that I wish we had gotten to know/see the team's owner Constance Newbold in a more prominent way, mainly because she was the owner of a baseball team in the year 1960 and I wanted to learn a lot more about her.

If you need more convincing, there is also a very grumpy dog who makes many appearances throughout YSBSL who I enjoyed immensely. Funny, heartfelt, and surprisingly emotional, YSBSL is so far my favorite read of 2024, and I will certainly be picking up Sebastian's earlier works.

Cat Sebastian writes queer historical romance that feels like a giant hug so well. I was so excited to read You Should Be So Lucky, because We Could Be So Good was truly one of my favorite books of last year. I loved the Nick and Andy cameos in this book, but I also really liked getting to know Mark and Eddie. It wasn't quite to the level of We Could Be So Good, but honestly, that's a tough bar to reach. I loved Mark's grumpiness and Eddie's insistence on not letting Mark go -- even when Mark tries to enforce a break so that Eddie can come to his senses or something, Eddie plays along, but then comes right back. I also loved the background of baseball, and the plot of Eddie trying to overcome his slump.

I'll keep reading Cat Sebastian's books, but please please PLEASE write a book a la A League of Their Own.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for providing me with an eARC of You Should Be So Lucky in exchange for my honest review.

I loved it so much, it just had me smiling so many times. My heart was just happy with how quiet and sweet it was with the story evolving slowly and us being witnesses of it all. It was such a lovely story of two men who need to find their new normal, their new self, when they can't go back to the person they used to be. Eddie has to find again his swing and go out of his slump, and Mark has to find the strength to open up his heart again even if the fears and grief are keeping him from putting himself out there. Giving love a chance can be terrifying. Add that it's NYC in the 60's and you know just how much scarier it can be.

I loved the domesticity of this story. There are not major twists, nor third act events that shake the story, and it's low angst which I appreciated a lot. They just build their love story from a tentative friendship that evolves to late night phone calls, conversations about books, walking the cutest dog ever, eating out, eating in, staring contests to see who was going to make the first step. Eddie had all the puppy vibes, no wonder Lula became bffs with him right away; he sees Mark and his face just beams sunshine and rainbows, and his big smile is just blinding. Mark might not be as obvious as Eddie, but the small gestures make as clear how much he just can't live without Eddie, even if his brain is fighting his heart to let him has happiness again.

Long story short, I fell in love with Mark and Eddie, and with Lula the dog. Watching Lula go from sleeping by the door to sleeping on the foot of the bed was like watching Mark on his journey. He might not have been sleeping by the door but his heart was stuck, and Eddie's arrival was just what he needed to make it beat again.