4.5

I LOVE Matt and Evan. Love them. I really enjoyed seeing where these two men are at in their lives so this was a wonderful and unexpected treat for me.

The chemistry between them remains explosive but tempered with tenderness and quite a bit of love. This is a novella, only 88 pages and focuses on the Miranda, the eldest Cerelli daughter, bringing home her fiance and his parents to meet Evan and the family for the first time during the Thanksgiving holiday.

I did not like Miranda. I'm not a fa More...

Marvellous series of books. I have enjoyed each and every one of them (although 'Love & Loyalty' features friends of Matt's - Jim and Griffin), which detail the trials and tribulations of two men Evan & Matt (both previously hetero) falling in love after the death of Evan's wife, and the problems they face in raising Evan's four kids, and in dealing with the reactions of their family, friends and co-workers.

Evan is a cop, and is finding it extremely difficult to come to terms with losin More...

Faith and Fidelity was the first M/M book that I ever read. Suffice it to say, I still love that book regardless of all its flaws. Matt and Evan are one of my favourite M/M couples of all time.

It was great to revisit Matt and Evan again. The best and most heartening thing was to know that Evan is finally comfortable in his own skin and has come to terms with his sexuality. Granted, he still has a myriad of issues, but he wouldn't be Evan if he didn't. The two of them have settled into complacent More...

I can't believe that I hadn't written a comment the moment I had finished it.

Well, first, the love is still there. Matt and Evan are in my opinion better than ever. And it's really wonderful to see them interact, struggle and succeed. Just for that the book is worth the read and it would have been a 5 star it not for the following:

I don't get the whole "Miranda dislikes/nearly hates Matt"-thing. Where does that come from? If that has been there before, especially to such and extend - it never wa More...

So Excited! I haven't read about Matt and Evan in ages ^_^

UPDATE

Thanksgiving dinner gives the Cerelli's time to spend together. However, blood pressures threaten to sky rocket as Evan's eldest daughter brings home her boyfriend for the holiday. Add said boyfriend's parents into the mix and it promises to be a dinner with heaping servings of tension.

It's nice to reunite with Evan and Matt as well as see the Cerelli children all grown up. Not much angst or any major plot. Just a nice and light rea More...

Oh I love Matt and Evan, I love the kids as well.
It's so wonderful that they comeback again in a chaotic Thanksgiving drama.
Thank you Tere for bringing them back ♥

Despite all that, I don't like the cover. Please author, publisher or whoever it is, just because it's a MM Romance, doesn't meant you have to put all muscled chest on the cover!

Cherish by Tere Michaels is a holiday themed novella that continues the immensely popular Faith, Love, and Devotion series, featuring NYPD cop Evan and former cop Matt, who are a long-term couple now raising Evan’s children several years after the death of his wife. As always with this author, the writing is beautiful and the sex scenes are hot. Evan and Matt seem like real,complex men and their kids are appealingly realistic.

The plot manages to be seasonal, yet intriguing – it does center on a More...

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Who said holidays were easy? Just when Matt and Evan think they have a little breathing room, Thanksgiving comes rolling around the corner. With Evan’s oldest daughter still acting out, she’s decided to bring home her newest boyfriend and his parents for the holiday. To add to the chaos, Evan’s partner and her boyfriend invite themselves over as well. Struggling to keep the family together and the drama down, Matt and Evan discover al More...

I really liked this quick novella and return to Matt and Evan. Michaels is really at her best when writing in this series and I’m always happy to revisit the characters no matter what. This particular novella is light and doesn’t necessarily advance the relationship much but I’m not complaining. It’s a wonderful look at two favorite men and their chaotic, crazy family. The writing is top notch as always and the ending gives a hint that there might be more similar revisits in the future.

This tim More...

3.5 Stars

It was so nice to catch up with Matt and Evan again. Cherish takes place several years after F&F. Matt and Evan are happy and settled in their new lives. We get a little glimpse of their day-to-day life and the trials of raising a family.

The focus is mainly on Miranda's unresolved issues with her mother's death and her father's relationship with Matt. I understand her feelings about losing her mother but her childish behavior was simply unbearable. She irritated me from the beginnin More...

I really enjoyed getting to visit with Evan and Matt, one of my favorite book couples. Both characters are great but it's Matt that really holds this family together. Although he still works part time he is also the one who takes care of the day to day household chores. With Evan's promotion looming I worry that he will be able to spend less time with the family and thus put more work on Matt's shoulders. In this novella the family is dealing with drama caused by Evan's oldest child Miranda. Imo More...

I love Tere Michaels. Her characters feel so real to me. Just normal, uncontrived people who share the same struggles we do; who are trying to make the best of their situations and who don't expect love but appreciate it when they find it.

This is the third book (novella length at 120 pages) in Matt and Evan's story. This book picks up about 4 years in the future. The kids are older and family dynamics continue to evolve. Tere could have went so many ways with this book, for example, (view spoiler)[ she could h (hide spoiler)] More...

I almost wish I hadn't read this book. I love Evan and Matt, and it was nice to catch up with them and the kids. I also like how realistic they seemed - their love doesn't make the other perfect (Evan can still have a temper), they are getting older, and the author shows how that's affecting them.

The problem with this book is that it's mostly about Miranda, Evan's oldest daughter. She still (years later) has a problem with Evan's relationship with Matt. She comes off in this book as a total bra More...

Monkey in the middle. Nope, not anymore!

This last story in the series is a lovely treat. We fast forward a few years, and check in with the Cerelli-Haight family. Evan and Matt are united and stronger than ever. Both are doing well with their careers and life is great.
Or more like, life is good.
Or perhaps, almost good?
Evan oldest daughter, Miranda has some shocking news and nearly gives her Dad a heart attack when the rumors reach his ears. In attempt to rebuild their strained father-daughter More...

I have really enjoyed this series and I think Tere Michaels is a good writer. I would love to see her publish some more books in this genre on a selfish note. However, I was left disappointed with this new instalment.

Evan has moved on from his closeted day and he's doing better. However, he also seems to be stuck in the same spot. Still not very comfortable with things which just makes me sad for Matt. This is a holiday themed-story it is all about family. I think Michaels is one of the few aut More...

Otra hermosa serie terminada pero debo decir que este libro no me gusto mucho.
Son 4 estrellas por Katie, Dany, Elizabeth & Matt. Ellos me encantan, me los quiero robar & llevar a vivir conmigo, sobre todo a Katie la pacifista :)
De Miranda no puedo mas que decir, que La Odio. De verdad lo hago, okay si es feo perder a tu mama y no tener con quien hablar pero claro que si tiene, su tia esta ahi siempre, que se apoye en ella. Aparte Evan ya piensa y se estresa demasiado como para que venga More...

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Tere Michaels indulges readers by going back to back Evan and Matt. This time, it’s a short story, but CHERISH is satisfying enough to sate the hunger that a lot of loyal fans are yearning for. When Evan learns that Miranda, one of Evan’s teenage daughters is seeing a new guy and has plans to marry him at age twenty-one, he begins to worry and stress. Readers get a glimpse of the strong bond between Matt and Evan once again as they deal with whatever life throws at them More...

Goodness! It ended!
I put this novel down to go and shower, came back, two pages later....The End!
The ending is a let down I hasten to add.
Ok. so, I've read the previous novels in this series, two years ago according to my Amazon purchases, and I remember absolutely nothing about these two guys and their family. Suprising as I actually liked them and their family, so I must have been busy, mind on other matters, tired or one too many glasses of Pimms during the Summer months not to remember.
Nice More...

3.75 Stars - Novella - Matt and Evan

***Not a standalone, and some details may be considered spoilery if you have not read the previous books in the series.

Nothin like a little Matt and Evan to soothe the soul. This novella was really good. It was nice to revisit these two characters I've come to adore, as well as get an update from other characters, mainly the Cerelli kids.

Interestingly enough, this novella seemed to be less focused on Matt and Evan as a couple coming to terms with the new dir More...

Wow is this series, and especially this short, really good. It's sweet and tender and reassuring to those of us who went through Matt and Evan's struggles in the other books. They realliy did figure it out: the love and labels and parenting and partnering.

I especially appreciate how the focus is on the love and not the labels. I don't really want to read about two guys just because they're guys, I want to read about people in love. Settling the social issues are not as interesting to me as sett More...

Yay! This story is starred by Matt and Evan, is about Miranda having a secret boyfriend, and she invites the future in-laws to meet her Dad and his partner on Thanksgiving. The recipe for a dress-rehearsal of Armaggeddon, don't you think?

This is one of my favorite m/m couples and series. Believable, flawed, every-day kind of guys who fall in love and make it work, in spite of all the obstacles. The absolute best is they are mature guys, close to fifty in this story. *fist pump* Yeah! HEA in acti More...

I could read about Matt and Evan forever. I’m glad that there will be more novellas of them.

I’ve always disliked Miranda. Like, your father is paying your rent in a Manhattan apartment (I don’t even need to live in NYC to know that shit ain’t cheap), you don’t want for anything, probably paying for your Masters too and you REALLY want to call him a crappy parent?

I understand that you lost your mom, but he lost his wife and your siblings lost their mother too. Like, stop being a brat. And now y More...

3.5 stars

This review was originally written for MM Good Book Reviews and can also be found there.

Since I’ve been following this series from the very start and always more than enjoyed the life of two unlikely partners, I was overjoyed that there was more to look forward to.

This one, actually shorter than the previous books and more of a snippet of the lives of our favorite characters, revolves around Miranda, the oldest daughter. She is feeling abandoned and more of an outsider when it comes to More...

Only 4 stars because it was a shorter read than I wanted. But I still loved it. Thanksgiving at Evan and Matts. Should be fun. Throw in bitchy Miranda - not sure where that came for. She did not come across with so much animosity in the previous books so that took a bit of getting used to. Great to see Evan finally being able to accept who he really is and how happy he is with Matt. OK, it is tough with work and kids etc. but the story comes across are lifelike. All the books in the series were More...

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Cherish is the fourth book in Michaels’ Faith, Love & Devotion series. In Book 1, Faith and Fidelity, we were introduced to Evan Cerelli and Matt Haight. Evan, a New York City police detective and Matt, a former homicide detective, got through the most difficult times of their lives with the support of one another. Evan had just lost his wife and Matt was going through some big changes in his life as well. They began a friendsh More...

Wow! I think I actually liked this book the best of all four. FINALLY, Evan seems to be more comfortable with his bisexual nature and has pretty much embraced it. In a fairly sexy and sensual way I might add. This short story is about his oldest daughter's continued struggle with her mother's death and her subsequent dysfunctional relationship with both Evan and Matt. It culminates in a nightmarish Thanksgiving dinner in which she brings home a boyfriend and his family. Really sweet story with a More...

- Good, worth a reread.
(view spoiler)[Catching up with Matt and Evan a few years down the road and seeing them happy and settled was great, but it wasn't the main focus as I had hoped. Miranda takes center stage when she brings her boyfriend, his family, and a heaping bag of issues along to Thanksgiving dinner. (hide spoiler)] More...

I wasn't too sure I was going to enjoy this one so much with it mostly being about Evan and Miranda, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Miranda was just awful. She really needed a wake up call and to be called to the floor for the things she said to and the way she treated Evan (and the rest of the family as well). The other kids are great. Katie is fabulous, and I love her interactions with Matt. Donny also seems to have really grown up a bit since we last read about them.

Matt totally made this boo More...

I really enjoyed this novella in the series. Matt always was my favorite character and it was so in this story too. I liked the whole family dynamic thing and I loved to see Evan and Matt settled into life together. At times I laughed out loud, at times I felt very emotional: it was a perfect mix of humour and angst. The only thing I wish had been there but wasn't, was a conversation, confrontation, something, between Matt and Miranda. While reading, I was expecting it and wanting it, but it nev More...

I adored Mat, Katie, Elizabeth and Danny. Evan was too easily manipulated by his eldest daughter the psychotic Miranda. I was happy Miranda's betrayal was called out by Katie and Kent's mother. The punishment did not fit the crime though as Evan found a way to blame himself for Miranda's drama and not enforce punishment. The brat knew what she was doing and was out to make everyone miserable. Neve mind that she also benefited from the money Matt brought in the house as he supported them all. It More...