Carol [Goodreads Addict]'s Reviews > The Weight of It All

The Weight of It All is book one in The Weight of It All series by N.R. Walker. Let me just start off here by saying this has been on my to read list for awhile. For no particular reason it just kept getting forgotten. Until my good book friend said, Carol, you NEED to read this book right now! So I did and oh my gosh! I loved Reed and Henry so much! N.R. Walker has such a wonderful way with telling her stories and making us love her characters. I literally smiled or laughed all the way through this book!



Henry Beckett is thirty five years old. He has been in a relationship with Graham for eight years. Until Graham came home and told him it was over. That he no longer wanted to be with an overweight old man, even though they were the same age! In the lowest days of his life, he decided he needed change, and maybe a way to try to get Graham back. So he went to a nearby gym. I also want to let you know that as Henry will freely admit, his mouth has no filter, whatsoever! The things he says! He kept me laughing non-stop! It’s the most endearing thing I’ve ever seen.

Reed Henske is thirty one years old and is a personal trainer. He is well over six feet tall and according to Henry, built like Thor! Maybe better than Thor! If I had one teeny tiny complaint about this book it’s that we don’t get any chapters from Reed’s POV. Oh how I would have loved to know what he was thinking. But this didn’t deter me from falling in love with this sweet, kind, lovely giant of a man. Reed has also been hurt several months previous which makes it hard for him to trust. He doesn’t like it when men only see him for what they see on the outside. He wants someone to want him for what they can’t see on the inside, for the real person he really is.

“There was something there. Something electric, something frightening, something that both thrilled me and terrified me.”

From their first meeting, you could see that something was there, just a connection. Reed was so surprised with Henry’s non-stop talking. And you could tell he thought it was endearing. He had such a perfect way of encouraging Henry and making him feel better about himself. It didn’t take long for their friendship to grow outside of their client/personal trainer relationship. Texts led to calls which led to shopping and spending time together. Slowly Henry begins to see what his life was lacking before and maybe get a glimpse of what real happiness could look like.

“I’m not smiling at my phone. I’m doing lip stretches.”

This is such a wonderful, heart warming story of personal growth, of gaining the confidence to change your life and reach out for what you really want, at the kind of happiness you really deserve. Of feeling you are worthy of whatever makes you happy, and allowing yourself to love again. I loved every single page of this book and now am going to go straight on to the follow up novella, A Very Henry Christmas. A quick peek shows that we might finally hear from Reed. I can’t wait!

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