Review: Loving Noah

Loving Noah by Kenna Knight
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was a wonderfully written and engaging story of best friends separated and of lost love and finding it again. Liam and Noah were always best friends. And both knew they were ‘different’. They thought the other was ‘different’ as well. But schoolmate cruelty and cold-hearted parents separated them before they got a chance to explore who they were, both as individuals and maybe as a couple.

Not a day went by that Liam wondered what had happened to Noah. Though a quirk of fate or a really luck chance, they’ve found each other online. For a year now, they’ve been talking to each other and building the relationship they did get to nine years ago. But Noah is a changed man. Anxiety and panic attacks keep him inside his bedroom. And he’s scared of telling Liam the truth of how much he’s changed. Both physically and mentally. His fears lead him to hide behind his middle name of Ben, that’s who Liam knows him as.

They start making plans for Liam to come to Noah’s home. As I read, I kept wondering what was going to happen when they finally met. It was part of what kept me reading. From there the story keeps developing Noah’s healing and the growing relationship between them.

I loved this story. Noah and Liam are beautifully written characters. And the author did a realistic job of describing panic attack reactions. The small steps that you take to overcome your fears. A week was maybe a little fast, but this is fiction, where time-lines are condensed. And I was okay with it being that fast.

I received an advance reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review.


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