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    One Real Thing

    By Anah Crow and Dianne Fox

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    Nick Addison has taken care of Hollister Welles since college. Though the responsible grad student and the uninhibited partier were total opposites, they had always shared an inexplicable bond. Nick knows he should stop saving the out-of-control Holly, but when Holly hits rock-bottom hardand publiclyhe can't resist coming to his rescue one last time. Can't resist the feeling of having Holly need him again.

    Bringing Holly back to New York City, Nick gives Holly the chance to face his demons and break his dangerous habitswhile keeping Holly's presence a secret from Nick's wife. He doesn't want to face Caroline's hatred of Holly...or the reasons she might have to resent him.

    Then the tables are turned. Just as Holly pulls himself together, Nick's life falls apart. Now it's up to Holly to bring Nick back from the brinkand to make Nick finally face the desires he's long denied.

    65,200 words

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarina Press
    Release dateJan 3, 2011
    ISBN9781426891021
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    • 4/5
      Two best friends. One married and the other slowly destroying himself. A story of self-realization. Sweet and tragic in turn. 4 stars
    • 3/5
      I found myself really conflicted when reading this book. On the one hand it has a great story, two star-crossed lovers who'd never got the chance when they were younger and loads of angst surrounding Holly's recovery from addiction. The long lost love is a trope that totally floats my boat and I was engrossed right up until the last 1/4 of the book. The changes in Holly's character were just too marked and I found the development of their relationship difficult to understand. However, it was entertaining, nicely written and I suspect most will be happy with the direction the characters take. 3 1/2 stars.
    • 2/5
      2,5 stars. It was an ok read, but it was not my cup of tea. It was supposed to have some kind of D/s flair, but it wasn't very convincing and I very much disliked the feet-kissing...
      I found both MCs not very realistic and their feelings and impressions were slapped into the reader's face more than described (which I vastly prefer).
    • 4/5
      I finally had a chance to read this one, considered a classic by so many GoodRead friends. I did love it, lots and lots! It was not what I was expecting, but I was pleasantly surprised with the splash of D/s when the two MCs started their sexual relationship. Wow, super hot stuff!

      If you like hurt/healing/comfort and friends-to-lovers, this one will be RIGHT up your ally! Have fun!
    • 5/5
      OMG, the love I have for this book knows no bounds.Everything about this book hits my hot spots. The characters, the pacing, the writing, the relationship (the subtle...and then not-so-subtle D/S overtones throughout the book were spot-on and fucking perfect). I even enjoyed the secondary characters as they were pretty well fleshed out. It's a friends-to-lovers story, but so.much.more. Watching Holly and Nick each crash and burn in their respective lives and then figure out what they have both been missing out on is just amazing. I can't recommend this book enough!
    • 5/5
      This is a gem. Nick and Hollister "Holly") have been friends since college. Holly is a bit of a screw up and Nick looks after him. After Nick marries evil bitch wife, his friendship with Holly goes the way of the dodo but he keeps up with Holly's doings by virtue of websites like TMZ. When Holly gets into trouble, Nick goes and helps him out, gets him back on his feet. Then Nick splits with evil bitch wife and he's the one in crisis and it's Holly's turn to help Nick. It is then that Nick realises what Holly has known forever but thought he could not have - they are "it" for each other. That's a really ordinary way of describing this very special story. It stayed with me after I finished it (always the mark of a great read). At the risk of offending (which is not at all my intention but it may come out wrong), this is the first time I've read about a D/s relationship which I "got". I've read and enjoyed other books with this theme but not with any real understanding of how it came to be, what made each partner want that sort of relationship. I've seen reviews (most particularly by Sarah Franz over at Dear Author) where she explains that it just "is" but I've never before really understood. In this book, I did. Their relationship is very symbiotic. I could see (shown not told = excellent) what Holly got out of being submitted to Nick. I could see what Nick got out of dominating Holly. I could see they both needed it and I could see it was beautiful. And sexy too. The only niggle I had was that it wasn't terribly clear to me that Nick was bisexual. I got the impression that he had been straight and straight only until his relationship with Holly commences (after he splits with evil bitch wife). But, there were a couple of comments along the lines of "it's been a long time" from Nick which indicated this wasn't the case. The comments were in the sex scenes and, because I wasn't expecting it, they kind of threw me out of the story a little. However, that could just have been me. Sarah Franz in her review didn't feel that way at all, so YMMV. This was an excellent, moving, touching book and my pick of the month. Yum.