Lift Me Up by Rayne Auster

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This is a very nice novella with a good push on the light and funny button. Soon after having a bad experience with best friend Kayden in the elevator, so bad to leave Avery traumatized and unable to take again one, Avery meets new neighbour Dylan. Actually more than a meeting it’s a clashing, Dylan stumbles over Avery breaking his ankle. The only right thing at this point is to take Avery to the ER and at the same time, trying to extract as much information as possible from the little man, who seems to have some trouble to form a coherent thought.

If the reader is thinking that Avery is shocked, by the bad experience and the accident, it will soon realize that it’s not, Avery is like that in his ordinary behaviour: while Dylan is asking him something, Avery is always thinking and planning something else in his mind and it’s too much concentrated on his goal to let his mind pays attention to the question on hand.

Dylan and Avery agree on one thing from moment one: there is no doubt that they have now a relationship, and a simple and ordinary thing like asking someone out or spending some time to know each other before embarking in a relationship, is not something that is worth to spend time on. Avery is coming out from a dry spell of more than 2 years and so, maybe, having the unexpected luck of an hunky neighbour who seems as taken as him, it’s not something that he will let it go.

There is no big drama on this story, even the little one, like a former twink boyfriend of Dylan and Avery’s phobia of elevators (better of one elevator in particular, his own), are dealt with a light and funny hand. Basically this is a comedy more than a romance, and its purpose is to bring a smile on your face, something that for me worked perfectly.

On a side note, I found really strange but interesting the writing style of the author, that was more like a brainstorming of Avery’s mind more than a linear development of a plot. Since we are basically inside Avery’s mind, Dylan’s character is maybe not so much development, but it’s all the same really good, I wouldn’t mind to read the story also from his point of view.

Side note: it's the first time that I find a character who does exactly my job, and the explanation he gave, even with the preface that it's not easy to explain, and even what he does more than his specifically skills, is exactly what I do.

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