My thoughts: I give it ♥♥
LA Witt is a hit or miss for me. This was a miss, unfortunately. I could not engage with either of the main characters. Grief and PTSD are powerful emotions and both of the MC’s have it in spades, but it did not appear as though they were given the time to deal with those before it was “I love you” at the end. Then it was just “the end”. This just wasn’t a book for me.The narration was very good, though..
The publisher blurb:
Neil Dalton’s foundation is already cracking. Grief, guilt, and PTSD have ruled his life since a terrible crime tore his world apart last year, and he’s dreading a holiday visit with the family he simultaneously needs and resents. Then someone from his past shows up and rattles that shaky foundation right out from under him.
First a war nearly destroyed Jeremy Kelley, then his family threw him out when he needed them the most. Now he’s barely holding on emotionally. He spends his last dollar to get to Chicago and prays his former best friend won’t leave him out in the cold.
Neil and Jeremy spend the holidays with Neil’s family in their hometown of Omaha. They struggle to deal with families, flashbacks… and feelings that haven’t even begun to fade since their last failed attempt at more than friends. As they try to repair their fractured psyches and rebuild damaged bridges, they rely on each other more than ever, but they can’t deny the mutual attraction that’s existed since before they were both emotionally battered and scarred. If they couldn’t make it work back then, how in the world can they pull it off now?
My Brain Vacation 