Elaine White's Life in Books
The Author
Elaine White is the author of multi-genre MM romance, celebrating 'love is love' and offering diversity in both genre and character within her stories.
Growing up in a small town and fighting cancer in her early teens taught her that life is short and dreams should be pursued. She lives vicariously through her independent, and often hellion characters, exploring all possibilities within the romantic universe.
The Winner of two Watty Awards – Collector's Dream (An Unpredictable Life) and Hidden Gem (Faithfully) – and an Honourable Mention in 2016's Rainbow Awards (A Royal Craving) Elaine is a self-professed geek, reading addict, and a romantic at heart.
The Reviewer
I’m an author and reader, who just can’t get away from books. I discovered the MM genre a few years ago and became addicted.
Top #50 UK reviewer on Goodreads
#1 reviewer on Divine Magazine
Only You
This is a 3.5 for me. The story definitely needed any ending, for the series, but this wasn't the one I wanted or expected. I'm afraid that I also don't think it did the series justice.Blue was pretty innocent this time, acting his age and letting the stress get on top of him. Derek was his usual charming self and I like that the story revisited the whole Adrian in incident. I also like that Sasha, Dusty and Cam made an appearance, for however long. It, unfortunately, felt more like the author was trying to answer all the unanswered questions of the series in one go and it just didn't work for me. It didn't feel natural for the story.
There was no crime element this time, as there was in every previous book, which might be why it read differently than the others. Sadly, though I still love Blue and Derek, their relationship sort of crumble in this book, with a hasty patch up job in the last chapter.
I was disappointed, after the perfection of book 4, that this one couldn't carry that torch a little further. I rounded up my rating to a 4, purely because of how much I love the Derek and Blue pairing, their dynamic and the way they seem to understand each other, even when the rest of the world doesn't.
