Cadiva's Reviews > A Stealthy Situation

RTC tomorrow but I basically bloody loved it 😁

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This book is all I hoped it would be and it also surprised me in a few ways. I've been dying for the Chaos Twins' story since we first met Bennett and Emmett Dalton in the CU Hockey series which followed two of their older brothers' romances.

In A Stealthy Situation we find the twins have reunited at FU because Em's been thrown out of the university he was attended after a prank went wrong and he's now mattress surfing on Benny's dorm floor.

Ordinarily this wouldn't be an issue, the twins have stood in for each other throughout their lives, especially when it came to switching out for Maths and English classes. But this time they've broken their rules and Em made a friend in Benny's statistics class which causes all sorts of complications.

I really liked the way Saxon handled the twins' switching places with Harrison. It wasn't a case of deliberately deceiving him. Em knew him as Bowser, his nickname in the previous series of FU books, whereas Benny only met him because Em was sick and he had to sit his own class.

So I felt that while the cat had to come out of the bag at some point, it wasn't as likely to be an overly dramatic episode which felt utterly cliched and I was right. When Harrison discovers the truth, he's obviously hurt but, as he finds out more about the twins' situation, he comes to realise there's perhaps more to Benny not being able to cope with numbers than just not liking statistics.

On the way to that point, they've gone from being friends, to Harrison realising he's not only attracted to Benny's personality, but he's also sexually getting turned on by him and this pansexual discovery was also handled really well.

Benny's basically a miniature version of Asher (but don't ever tell him that) and his allergy to feelings comes back to bite him big time when he realises he's fallen for Harrison. Thankfully those feelings are returned and the two of them are stupid sweet and swoony together, as well as smoking hot as Harrison gets to explore his newly discovered sexuality.

This books funny too, not too much over the top college frat level humour, but smart mouth snarking from Benny and the type of ribbing from his twin that only comes from a lifetime of knowing everything about your identical match.

Now I'm even more stoked for Em's book which is coming towards the back end of the second series of FU.

#ARC kindly received from the author via GRR Tours. I am voluntarily leaving a review