Hiroku
Laura Lascarso
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
4.50
· 6 ratings · 266 pages · Published: 07 Jun 2018
Seth sees in Hiroku something Hiroku doesn’t see in himself—potential. With a hero-like worship, Hiroku embarks on a complicated and intense relationship with the older teen, who not only fascinates Hiroku as a lover but persuades him to take their experimentation to extremes. Hiroku reasons that if it feels good, then it must be okay.
But as Seth’s demands increase, Hiroku must ask himself, at what point is the sacrifice too much?
Told in parallel timelines of then and now, seventeen-year-old Hiroku weaves a story about emotional manipulation, abuse and addiction while struggling to understand the core of their relationship, who is to blame, and his own compulsion to choose Seth over everything else.
When fear is the heart of love, does it make your feelings any less real?
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- contemporary 3
- romance 3
- lgbtq+ 3
- men loving men 3
- dark 3
- coming of age 2
- angst 2
- age gap 2
- cheating 1
- drama 1
- domestic drama 1
- high-school 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- abuse 3
- mental illness 2
- substance abuse 2
- format - reader age
- young adult 3
- book 1