Beautiful Dreamer

I seriously loved this. It was a heartfelt story that, though satisfying in the romance department, was primarily about family and familial love.

The Coleman and Sweeney families have been friends for years and as such have shared Holidays and vacations, interweaving their lives and those of their kids. Garrett Coleman got a best friend in Rory Sweeney and in time a lifelong crush on Finn Sweeney, Rory's older brother. Life's slings and arrows have kept the families apart for a few years but it's now Christmas and they're back to spending the holiday together in a cabin filled with memories.

Garrett is now an adult, a successful dancer, and an out and proud gay man and he's decided that the torch he carried for Finn Sweeney is not only undeserved but he's over it, if only his heart got the memo. Meanwhile Finn, having not laid eyes on Garrett in years, begins to see him as a person other than Rory's BFF who was always underfoot. In fact Finn had always noticed Garrett as the sensitive and watchful kid he was, but nothing more, and I was sooooo glad for that.

This whole story is about new beginnings, but buttressed by the past. Garrett's family is getting a chance to breathe again and Garrett, though hesitant at first, allows his heart to open to Finn and something new.

I really like everything about this: the family relationships felt real, lived in, Garrett's hurt & feeling of holding his breath, only to finally open to Finn, let him in. goose bumps And Finn was perfect in his bumbling imperfection. He was a guy trying to figure out what he was missing, stumbling and flailing sometimes, but never with malice and then that gift sigh Also did I mention he's ginger? Yep. Yes he is. :D

On a separate note this is my second snow globe centric story along with [b:Winter Oranges|26117781|Winter Oranges|Marie Sexton|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1440206105s/26117781.jpg|46064738]. I'm on a roll. LOL