Jude (Lucky Book 3)

This one was quite an emotional and angsty ride. I wanted to slap both Jude and Isha too many times to count. While I could see them falling in love with one another it was hard seeing how much keeping their hearts as separated as possible was costing both of them. But in the end when push came to shove Isha HAD to act to keep the guy he loves.We've met Isha Hussain in the first installment. He's Dom's best friend and ex-manager. Though he might act indifferent we've seen him first act, never ask questions later when Dom requested his help, and he was really there for him when he came out. Yet it was never something he felt sharing himself - the fact he is Bi. The only person to know is his ex-wife. She has always been his best friend but they stayed together for the wrong reasons so now it's better for both of them (and their two kids) they are divorced keeping the friendship part only. While Isha IS a good friend to the few he keeps in his circle, he doesn't really allow people to get close to him so it's no wonder once he found Jude it was EXTREMELY difficult for him to open up and later on come out to his friends about his sexuality and relationship with Jude.Jude Harrison prefers his reptile friends to humans. Mostly. He owns a small reptile shop and mostly stays on the property where he also lives. When Isha arrives at his door step asking him for a birthday party for his 8 years old son he is surprised but accepted happily as he needs all the money he can get. They are both MORE than just surprised when they meet up again that night through a dating app. They decide to follow through on blowing up some steam together even if it's definitely awkward.Problem is they have a hard time staying away from one another and it doesn't help that the party is a HIT for both his son and younger daughter who seem to fall in love with Jude. For Jude in a way it's more simply - he is who he is.. He enjoys spending time with the kids especially around his reptile friends, and the time he spends with Isha on their own is mind blowing. Yet he wished it was more "real" and less complicated as Isha keeps making it with him being so closeted and also unable to admit his feelings, any feelings really towards Jude. Well, it's not like Jude is making it easy on him. He too isn't used to having feeling AT ALL in a relationship so together with Isha's behavior he isn't sure what or how to do with him.In a way it's even more complicated with Jude being friends with Rae - who lives together with his partner Cash in the same house Lucky and Dom are living.. Which means he can't even confide in his best friend about what's going on in his life, not wanting to out Isha to his friends if he isn't ready for it..It's a struggle. A big one. It started as a bit too angty for me, truth be told, but somewhere along the line, like so many of Garrett's books, it became IMPOSSIBLE to put down and I was just turning page after page CAN'T WAIT to see them WORK and truly be together, express their feelings for one another, but for THAT I needed to wait almost to the very end. It was SO worth the ride.Tags: Contemporary (MM) RomanceMore @ Ultra Meital Reviews.

I've read some books wherein the characters were terrible at communication, but the author was not accomplished in writing about it. Garrett Leigh is accomplished. OH, the many times I wanted to smack Isha upside the head! But it was in character, there were consequences every time, and what breaks him out of it is all the more terrifying for it. Isha's habit of hiding in the closet versus Jude's inability to hide ever, their class differences, their health differences, and pride all clash in the face of the powerful pull each feels toward the other.I loved Lucky, and I loved Cash, and now I love Jude. Read them all!

Jude and Isha’s story is one I think I needed right now. Seeing Isha work through his needs, not only physically but emotionally too, and Jude finally getting what he deserves even though he never thought he would is something epic. I love the bond Isha’s kids develop with Jude and the way it works out for them all and lastly, holy moly the sex is explosive and about as hot as it can get! The connection and chemistry is off the chart amazing and I might be in a book hangover right now! Yikes! Sooooo good!

This authors characters are so deep and sexy and wonderful all at the same time. The love is fought for and you wonder if it will happen.If you want a great read pick up one of her books.You won’t be sorry.

I wish the characters had a more interesting inner life. They seem like the shallowest of teenagers. The sex is ho hum as well, repetively so.I read the first half, skipped to the epilogue and found it was the same old-same old badly written tripe I. The first half.

I'm usually one to give angst a reasonably wide berth, but I'd be a fool to try and deny the obvious commitment I have to Garret Leigh's content (to the author's credit, the angst in this story was much lighter than some of the previous ones I've read so there's that). I'm also not really into too much on-page sexual content (sometimes I get fed up with even a string of mentions of sex), and more often than not, when sex comes before I can even tell one character from the other, that's another one of my nono's. Then I ask you, WHAT THE HELL is it about Garret Leigh's books? Whatever it is, I'm not even going to pretend to complain, cause for some wicked reason, it just works and that's it.Man, oh, man did I enjoy treading this path along Isha and Jude, those two loveable idiots... Theirs was a super complex journey, and I'm always in amazement of how the author can give life to characters that are so... Big. I don't know what I mean with this, my brain is tired, I'm on my phone and I've breathed this book with only a couple food breaks somewhere along the day so I'm not at my brightest by the longest shot. All I know is that this was simply amazing.From the way the author can build an engaging plot with intricacies, as well as merging it with a perfectly realistic everyday setting; to the depth of the characters, the originality (because not two of the boys are even remotely the same, and I'm still trying to collect my jaw off the floor over that)... All I can say is that, as a really picky reader who's more specific about what I don't like than about what I do, I always end up loving these books to bits, even when I make it a point to establish over and over that there, at the very core of the story, lie some of the elements that would make me run as fast and as far away as I can from a book by literally anybody else. So that definitely has to mean something is being done right here, huh?Okay, this review was useless (shall I go back to the fact that I'm super tired?), so good luck picking it apart and trying to find something that helps.But, what's really important: READ. THIS.

I absolutely love Garrett Leigh’s writing.I wasn’t sure I was going to invest any emotion to Isha, as I didn’t really relate to him in the two previous books but I shouldn’t have been surprised when I did..... Garrett Leigh does emotional investment just fine.I really enjoyed Isha and Jude’s story and fell in love with Jude.Garrett Leigh’s characters have a fair amount of angst which I enjoy, as I feel this helps me to relate to her characters.I always enjoy getting a glimpse of the other characters in this series and seeing how they are doing.