Title : Optical Illusion by Emma Jaye
Part of series : Paint book #1
Genre(s) : Contemporary gay romance with angst, age gap
Publication Date : September 1st 2016
My Rating(s) : 4.5/5 Stars
Smile, wiggle, lie, apologise, and run for the hills.
That's the formula Chris has used all his life, but this time, he has something he’s never had to lose before, a family that cares. The problem is, his new brother’s very edible friend isn’t fooled by his act. If his secrets are revealed, they won’t want him and he has nowhere else to go.
Thanks to a suicide bomber, ex-military police sergeant Jase Rosewood is back in the English countryside. His plans for quiet recuperation are ruined by the effervescent, go-go dancing twink who has everyone wrapped around his little finger. Luckily for the gullible Matt, Jase can smell a liar a mile away, and Chris Bacon, if that’s even his name, stinks to high heaven. Assigned ‘Chris-sitting’ duty while Matt's on honeymoon, Jase has a week to discover what is hidden beneath the bright camouflage. It's a job, just like any other, so why does it feel so different?
Unfortunately, Jase isn’t the only one drawn to the boy who can’t stay still, but instead of wanting to reveal his true colours; they want to dull them forever.
Contains issues of physical abuse, but not between the central couple.
...even if you irritate the hell out of me ninety-nine percent of the time. You intrigue me and I’d like to explore that further...
I didn’t know about this book or the author IF I didn’t accidentally saw the arc/ebook offer from the publisher at one of the MM group I’ve been following.
The blurb grabbed my attention instantly and made me curious. Intriguing by the possibility of the good premises shown on the blurb, I decided to give this book a try….
Jase and Matt are inseparable best friend since childhood. And for years, Jase has secretly in love with Matt, but unfortunately Matt is straight. On the last day on their senior year, Jase brave himself to finally let Matt know about his feeling to him. When things didn’t went well and almost ruined their friendship, Jase then decided to join the military following his father path. Their friendship still lasting for decade, but the things between them had completely changed.
After almost lost his life on the suicide bomb incident, Jase finally leave the military life and back to his hometown and attending Matt wedding as his best man while recovering himself from the injury.
Jase know for sure that there’s nothing left between him and Matt except for the friendship, but seeing the man he’d once loved marrying a woman was not that easy, because he can’t denied that the memories was still remains. But then he met this beautiful young man at the wedding that caught his full attention…
And his heart start to beat again…
What he didn’t expected is…that the beautiful young man turned out to be Matt’s half brother…
When Matt leave for honeymoon and want Jase to ‘keep an eye' to his brother and do some digging about his past, things start to get ‘complicated’…
And this…is what made the next whole reading become a very INTERESTING read!
Because Chris definitely is a trouble maker. And it needs a lot of patience to keep him out from troubles and to understand him completely. But the more Jase know about Chris’s past life and the WHY, it made him want to protect Chris and keep him safe even more…
But with Chris’s past, trust issues and ADHD, it’s definitely not an easy things to do. And trying not to include his feeling toward Chris is an impossible either…because Jase completely knew that Chris already owned his heart since the day he saw him for the first time...
Like I’ve said before, this is my first Emma Jaye's book and I didn’t expect to like this story this much!
The pace is a bit slow and with the complex plot I must admit that not everyone will enjoying the reading like I do. But like Jase who needs a lot of patience to understand Chris’s minds and needs, it needs A LOT of patience to read this book especially with the complexity that happen in the story and the long starting range that start with Jase and Matt story before it finally entered into the ‘main’ story between Jase and Chris. But if you have little bit MORE patience, I can assure you that the story really worth your time and enjoyable enough to read.
I started this book with scepticisms, but at the end I'm falling deeply in love with both Chris and Jase characters with all their baggage. I have this constant urge to hugs Chris almost the entire reading and have fully respect to Jase for what he'd done to Chris, to always be at Chris's side and to understand him completely...
The first book ended with cliffy end that will grow your curiosity, but thanks god I read this book when the second book had finally out, so I can jumped to the next book without need to do the hysterical scream like what others reader must faced when they read this series long time ago. Because if not I will pulling my own hair waiting for what happen next!
See ya in the next book review!
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