Gateway To Love by Sarah Hadley Brook

Gateway To Love by Sarah Hadley Brook
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Short story (98 pages)
Other: M/M
Rating: 3.5 stars
Reviewed by Fern

Ten days to finally make the leap from friends to lovers….

Craig and Mitchell have been friends for years, but each of them reached a point where that camaraderie became… more. Mitchell’s kept his feelings close to his chest. So has Craig, but now that they’ve graduated from UMKC, he knows it’s his last chance to show Mitchell they’re meant to be before their careers take them to opposite sides of the country.
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He insists they can’t leave Missouri behind without one last adventure. Mitchell agrees to a road trip to visit all the touristy spots and say goodbye to their home state.

As they spend their days and nights together, buried feelings rise to the surface and hope blossoms. When their journey ends with a dance beneath the Branson stars, will they find love and a future together at the end of the road?

Having finally graduated, Mitch has been enjoying his summer holidays for the most part. He’d almost made the entire way through college without telling his room-mate and best friend, Craig, the true depth of his feelings. And then Craig, knowing they were both at a loose end, had suggested a road trip. Mitch knows it’s a bad idea, knows the deep desire he feels for Craig will probably shake loose, but he can’t resist one last chance to spend time with the man he’s fallen in love with.

I found this to be an interesting and fun road-trip style of story. Admittedly, there’s not much to the plot – Craig and Mitchell have been secretly in love (and lust) with each other for years, both of them too worried about the guy-code and their solid friendship to rock the boat and admit their feelings. But with college finishing up and both of them moving to opposite coasts of the country for their new jobs they each become determined to come clean about their feelings for the other. While I did enjoy both characters, what really made this book memorable for me was all the tourist-traps and experiences the boys shared together on their road trip. I found it a little ironic that I presume this part of the story was meant to be the “filler” but to be honest I found it refreshing, different and interesting and while the romance and two main characters truly were good – without the road trip and tourist attractions this would have possibly fallen into “just another friends-to-lovers” style of story for me.

With a lovely and friendly third wheel, plenty of chemistry and mis-communications between Mitch and Craig and a whole lot of driving and fun, I found this to be an interesting and well-paced story. I thought the sex was sizzling and wonderful but personally I found it more sensual and steamy rather than strongly erotic. The chemistry and passion between the two guys was undeniable though and I feel most readers should be very satisfied with the heat level. I did feel the two guys could be really confusing sometimes with the circles they’d talk themselves into. While I had no problems following along with the story and enjoying the ride a part of me did wonder why two guys who were best friends and had been room-mates for years had such difficulty expressing themselves to each other. Even with the mis-communications between Mitch and Craig – and some really tall tales being told to strangers – I was very happy with the way the two boys came together finally and the way their story is left.

With a wonderful happy ending and some very sensual, steamy sex this was a great story and a brilliant road trip that I enjoyed.