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I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review.

Nick Colton leaves home after his boyfriend Alex asks for some tome apart and his own father Blake kind of rejects helping him in the situation he gets himself and Alex in. 10 years later he comes back.home to give his half sister a bone marrow transplant and to do.business (corporate takeovers I guess you can say?). Nick family situation is bit rough and his relationship with Alex a bit strained.

I was a bit vexed with the whole book but at the same time I was very invested in finishing it because it was just too good too put down. This book really did a number on me. It frustrated me and kind of shredding up my heart with how Nick was being treated and just his family life. Blake treatment of his own son and the way he treated Alex just made me hate him. I felt he was meddling where he had no right to meddle. Him pushing Alex to lead his life a certain way horrified me. The fact that he let his pride overtake him and didn't care a
wink for Nick after the bone marrow transplant and then outbidding him to drive up the price for the land just made him deplorable. I hated his guts for it and I was actually glad that Nick had escaped his clutches when he was younger. I could really feel Nick's pain and anguish and it just had me a bit of a wreck to kind of see that he didn't really have people that should have been there for him.

Alex was really too passive a character for me to like and I wished he took a stand and tried harder with Nick, Blake and himself. I really didn't like how he didn't seem to want to rock the boat. He didn't really stand up for himself when it came to breaking up with his fiancee, or when he saw Blake was really out to make Nick bleed or well anything concerning Nick.The whole thing with Nick saving the company really rankled me. I thought that that was a situation Blake should have handled seeing as he was the one who had dug himself into that mess. I thought the least decent thing he could have done was have a sit down with Nick and just talk it out and have a touching moment.

I did love Nick for looking after the family that I felt never cared enough for him even if it was Alex who kind of talks him into it and kind of got him in touch with humanity. I know my review sounds a bit negative (er...okay maybe a lot) but it was a really really good story and it was hard to put down. The characters were just behaving so badly that that just stuck with me. There were a lot of things I liked in the book too like Nick's interaction with his stepsister and Alex's mom,how successful and mature (debatable) he became, etc.