Like all the other books in the series, Reckless Heart plays a bit with the twink theme, i.e. a slightly older man who fall in love with a barely legal boy.

Milo is Dante’s little brother, one of the above older men, and when it’s time for his brother to fall in love for a man, Dante readily forget that he himself is involved with a 19 years old boy, when he is well over 30. Actually Cam, the man Milo falls in love with, is “only” 26 years old, so the age gap is not much, more than the difference in age is the difference in lifestyle that makes their relationship starting in a rocky way.

Milo meets Cam in the restaurant he is working part-time; even if his brother Dante has now a comfortable life, and wealthy friends like Cody and Beau, Milo is more or less a runaway kid: he was kicked out of home when he came out, and now he has nowhere to go if not his brother. He will start college in the winter but meanwhile he is really wondering what to do with his life, a life that he is not considering so much, the refusal of his parents weights on his shoulder.

Cam on the other hand comes from money, but this doesn’t mean he had a better relationship with his parents; his beloved mother took his life when Cam, probably her only reason to live, was in college and his father doesn’t accept him being gay. While Milo turns his parents refusal in the possible refusal of any other person he will care for, Cam learned from his parents’s experience that love is not a long term affair. Both men have no reason to believe that their casual affair will last, and so they embark on it with no strings attached.

But Milo is very young, and at his first important experience, and of course even if his mind tells him to not being involved, his heart has other plan. I think he cajoled a bit Cam in this relationship, true Cam cares for Milo, but if he didn’t play his cards on the right way, I had the feeling that for Cam the experience would have been only a nice memory. On the other hand Cam is not an uncaring person, and when he realizes the feeling of Milo run deeply, he cannot treat him like yet another twink.

The story is nice, a good addition to the series, and it was also nice to have the final wrap up, with all the couples from the previous books play happy family together.

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