Download And Enjoy Strong Signal (Cyberlove, #1) Put Together By Megan Erickson Available In Interactive EBook
aren't many words for how much I adored this, I loved how Megan seems to have brought out a softer side of Santino, It was sexy and lovely and I just adored the MCs, This was a great pairing of authors and I def couldn't recommend it more, Wow this book was awesome !!
Two guys meet and connect, while being miles and miles apart,
Garret is a gay soldier, currently deployed in Afghanistan and waiting for his tour to end,
Kai is a reclusive "gaymer", who suffers from social anxiety and panic attacks, He doesn't leave his appartment anymore and his only "real life" friend is theyears old, kid next door, All his other friends are virtual followers of his Twitch stream,
Garret is a closet nerd, who loves to play games on his laptop, such as Fallen World Online, which is what he does, to get through his time in Afghanistan.
He's all excited about playing, until he meets Kai, who kills Garret's character on the spot and does a little victory dance afterwards, . . :
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Garret is pissed and starts looking into Kai's profile and looking him up on Google, This is how he stumbles onto Kai's Twitch stream, . and other video's of Kai
The two connect and strike up an online friendship which turns into way more, Damn these two were hot on Skype, and Garrett has quite the dirty mouth on him !!
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Then the time comes for Garrett to finally come home and he can't wait to meet Kai in real life.
But Kai hasn't told Garrett all about himself and his anxieties, So when Garrett shows up to surprise him, . . things don't really go as planned,
Question is will these two be able to make it in real life and will Kai be able to overcome his problems,
I loved reading about the two of them, They were so cute together, . . and so so HOT !! I have been struggeling with anxiety myself for overyears, so I was so rooting for Kai, . . he deserved to be happy, He was truly an awesome character, Garrett had a heart of gold and never once judged Kai for being who and how he was,
I can't wait for the next book in this series, . . this was definitely a win for me !!
sitelink I needed this book,
I picked up 'Strong Signal' after a week of one horrifying news story after another, A popular Youtube personality and singer was shot after her concert by a deranged man, An LGBT nightclub was the place of a massacre by a homophobic extremist, Iraqi civilians were gunned down as they tried to escape a war zone, A British member of parliament who worked tirelessly for refugees was assassinated by a xenophobic extremist,
In this era of social media, where we constantly see some of the worst of humanity, it's difficult to block out the negativity.
When I started this book, I was feeling like crap, 'Strong Signal' brought me back to my happy place,
The beginning of Kai and Garrett's relationship isn't conventional, They first meet in an online game and get off to a rocky start, But they slowly get to know one another, through emailing and instant messaging, The two go from friendly banter to cautious flirting, Within a few weeks, they're having cybersex,
I have to note that this book is HOT, From the beginning, when they're sending each other dirty messages, Garrett and Kai have a chemisty that set my tablet screen on fire, And it just gets hotter as they go forward, It didn't hurt that these two have a bit of a voyeuristic and domination streak going on,
But it's not just the sex that connects the MCs, After spending years isolated, Kai because of his social anxiety and Garrett because he just doesn't like most people, the two finally find someone they can open up to.
Their heartfelt conversations, which were a mix of funny and sweet, bring Kai and Garrett together,
What I loved most about this book is what Kai and Garrett did for each other, For Garrett, Kai is the reason to look beyond his crappy childhood and aim for a better future, For Kai, Garrett is the reason to finally deal with his social anxiety and become a functioning member of society,
The two lift each other up and work to build a future where they're together,
If you like your MM to be romantic but with a bit of angst, and your MCs to be flawed but perfect for each other, this is the book for you.
I can't recommend 'Strong Signal' enough! Rating removed because of quite convincing catfish allegations,
The review might go completely once there is a statement from the authors,
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I didnt care how unbeatable this Samwise fuckface thought he was, Id figure out how to beat him eventually, And then Id dance on his green corpse,
Boy, was he wrong,
But thats how Garret and Kai meet: in a dungeon of Fallen World Online, and well, I think neither expected events to turn out the way they did, neither thought of the strong connection and later love that would arise.
So, Garret is on his last mission in Afghanistan, biding his time to get home, and Kai is living an online life as a professional online gamer.
He has a stream and lots of followers and this is how he earns his money,
I think the premise is chosen very well, because the plot develops naturally through these outer influences, While the first half of the book shows how Garret and Kai fall for each other without ever having met in person, the second half focuses on how they can build a new life together, which understandably isnt easy.
Both Garret and Kai are lovable characters and, moreover, they are extremely well crafted, Threedimensional, with distinct voices, personalities, and backgrounds, Garret is this grumpy, protective person, and Kai is cute, mature, and levelheaded, but since hes suffering from anxiety hasnt left his apartment for three years.
I love how the premise also naturally brings forth conflict that, in my opinion, was not only solved satisfactory, but also true to the situation and characters.
Getting to know each other online, finding a new job for Garret, dealing with Kais anxiety, and be able to start a life together, all these are issues that are addressed, and since I could witness how Kai and Garret grow and take on the challenges, I can believe in their happy ending.
This whole book is super sexy and dirty hot, I absolutely loved that. You are in for a treat, I tell you, Furthermore, both Kai and Garret are very sweet with each other and you can feel their love for each other coming off the pages.
I want to shortly address some more things: The depiction of the online relationships seemed really authentic to me, as well as Kais anxiety.
Gaymers will have their fun reading this book, although Id say you will still enjoy this if you dont play games, I also really loved how Garrets family was portrayed, It is so great when there are loveable female characters in a book, Theres humour and a lot of entertaining dialogue, too,
Now I am getting a little more personal, because near the end there were two instances where I was strongly reminded about things that happened in my life and made the book even more relatable for me:
The way Kai starts to deal with his anxiety, from the moment he acknowledges that he has a problem, over the time it takes him to get help, till he picks up the phone to call a stranger and ask for an appointment, this all rang so true for me, and was exactly what I experienced over the course of last year with my depression.
It is so hard to pick up the phone, to get to this place, It is incredibly hard, you cant even imagine,
Moreover, Kai and Garret both are desperate to be together once theyve met, There is this huge hole inside of them when they are not together, I didnt meet my J online, but he had to move away, to the other side of Germany, after we had been together for a month, and I was still in school, living with my parents.
We had a longdistance relationship for the next four months of our relationship, and we hated it so much J moved back and changed universities.
From then on, weve nearly been together at all times, Till this day,years later, we still hate every day we are separated, Reading Kais and Garrets story reminded me of this and made me wonder whether the beginning of our relationship has anything to do with it, and I am quite sure it has.
Let me summarise, STRONG SIGNAL is a sweet, hot, desperate love story about two real, loveable characters who can be so lucky to have found each other via a medium that made it easier for them to connect.
Recommended!
Genre: m/m romance
Tags: gaming, anxiety, new starts, scorching hotness
Rating:,stars
I would like to thank the authors for providing me with the eARC of this title in exchange for my honest opinion.
gt bought anyway :,