Month: July 2019

Blurb form Goodreads

Oh God, here he comes now. Okay, he actually greeted me. Now I need to say something… anything. Run down my internal checklist—Step One: wipe drool from mouth; I wiped my mouth; check. Step Two: open mouth and speak; say something… come on, anything… nope, I got nothing. Step Three: refer to Step One and repeat. 

Sigh. This gorgeous man now thinks I’m a moron. Of course, I know that my secret—okay, not so secret—crush, Reese Willoughby, could never have any interest in me anyway. There’s just no way that he hasn’t noticed me openly ogling him at work. I know everyone else in the office has surely seen it. When Reese finally asks for my help with a work project, I can’t help but feel over the moon. Now I can only hope that he notices just how much I like him, because there is no way I’m about to make the first move. 

This book was published in 2016, I haven’t been able to find a publisher so no publisher is mentioned.

Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is an older published book (2016) that doesn’t necessary makes it bad. First thing first. There are a few misspellings and a few repeats that are unnecessary, a few facts that I don’t get – does Rees live in a house or an apartment? Theres a mention of both. I’m going for apartment. Since this is an older book I wish that the author would have done an update to correct these things.

When that is said this books is soo sweet. Give me a bowl of sugar and I’ll eat it with a spoon sweet. I love it. However there are a few things that doesn’t set well with me. I think there are too many characters for one books, it tend to confuse me, I do like the group of family and friends. And I just love Caleb’s mother she’s amazing. But the introduction to the characters are clever done I must say. Two kinds also becomes part fo Reese’s and Caleb’s family – just what they alway dreamed about, marriage and kinds. I does seem a little bit too forced, this is what they want, let’s give it to them. Maybe in an another book it would have been a great story. I think that this books should have focused on the relationship between Caleb and Reese and their friends – maybe even a bit more on the past, the hurt and the pain. To me it seems that the author is trying to please a bit too much. They want – they get. But who am I to tell the author how to write a book.

What I do like about the books is that it kind of reel. Caleb lives at a young age in a abusive household with his father and brother who both tortures him. What I don’t like is the non interference from anyone, surely someone must have noticed someting on a young child. When Caleb goes to a clinic because he’s badly hurt, why don’t anyone react (it’s pretty gruesome what he was put through), I would have said that someone professional would have reacted to the abuse, it does seem that for the sake of the story they just let it go/ don’t report it. But it does kind of put other people in a bad light aka they are not doing what they are supposed to, thats kind of wild. But if you can look past this a focus on the story it self, it really is sweet. The dynamic between Caleb and Reese is OHHH boy! I love them and I just want them to be happy.

Drama: there are a few dramas in this books and they are good, I like a bit of angst and drama. But I must also say that they kind of falls flat, they are not really allowed to develop, they pop-up and they vanish, just like that.

I was debating with my self between three or four stars, but ended up letting my heart get away with me, it is sweet.

This is my first read by this author, I’m going to read the next books in the series.

Blurb from authors Goodreads

Brent Canter lived forty-seven years content with his life to have it all disappear with one life-threatening diagnosis. Cancer without hope of survival, yet he’d beat the odds. He had a successful business and a family he loved, yet he was missing something. That something was an adorable, younger man, and he didn’t know what to do. Miller Andrews loves the silver fox, Brent Canter. The older man is everything he’d wanted in a partner. Brent was smart, caring, affectionate, and sexy. He is damn near perfect. When he needed a favor, Brent was the only person he thought to ask. Can one pretend kiss turn into the love of a lifetime for a man who thinks he only screws up and the other who questions if he can have a second chance at love with a younger man? 

Book is a part of the series “The Men of Canter’s Handyman” this is book two

Book was published in 2018 by Hostile Whispers Press, LLC

Review ⭐️⭐️

I’m kind of asking my self why I should bother raiting the book more than one or less star if the author couldn’t be bothered to come up with a new story? I know it’s harsh bot non the less what I feel. This book is so much like the first one in the series – I’m lusting after you and I can’t have you… Oh dear, not again. It’s not that lusting after someone you can’t have turns me off, au contrair my dear, it’s a good plot. But not two books in a row in the same seriew. Now if the series were 5 books or more you could revisit the issue but carefully.

The best part of this book is the age gab, daddy and boy roleplay, I like it. The author could probally have pulled it off if adding something else to the story, like a drama with the ex, drama with Brent’s son, just something else. It gets kind of monotone. Should the author deside to add more to the series – I do have a few in mind. Then please be more creative.

Blurb from authors Goodreads

Kindergarten teacher, Troy Canter, fell hopelessly in love with leather and tattoos at the impressionable age of sixteen when cuddly, bad-boy Win interviewed for a job with the family business, Canter Handymen of all Trades. No one compared to the large man and never would. A decade later, Brent, Troy’s father, falls ill and he needs to take over the business for a while. Interacting Day in and day out with sexy Win is a cruel punishment. Winston Sanchez hadn’t done a thing right in his life, except interviewing for a handyman job for Brent Canter. He loved his job, but an attraction to Troy Canter complicates things. As Troy ran the business while Brent fights cancer, it has thrown the man right in his lap. When an unexpected development in the package of a four-year-old daughter throws Win into a panic, Troy comes to the rescue. Can a man who doesn’t think he’s worth much let go enough to open himself to the love of a man who thinks he’s worth everything? 

Book is a part of the series “The Men of Canter’s Handyman” this is book one

Book was published in 2018 by Hostile Whispers Press, LLC

Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Can you lick the rainbow?

I kind of wonder I you could lick the rainbow what would it taste like, sugar? I think so. What brought this on. Well this book is so sweet so I thought about it, I know, silly. I actually have never read anything by this author before, but I will.

You can’t help falling in love with the mc’s. Win is a man with secrets, bisexual, ex-con he know that but boss’ son Troy is off limit. Win is big with tatoos (I like😋) Troy on the other hand has had a crush on Win since forever, but it can nerver happen.

Some like them sweet, I do, that’s why I loved this book. I would have loved a bit for angst and maybe a bit for fight for love. Maybe Tory’s dad could have been a bigger part of the story in the match making for his son. Maybe Troy could have gone out on a date, you hear the he does but there only the mention of it. Maybe the date could have been discribed more, who did he meet with? Where did they go? Maybe Win could have gotten jalous, I just feel like the story have it’s black holes to be complete The story seams to focus on Isabella (the child) though she does not really intervien in the story between Win or Troy, she’s just there as a part of their everyday life that seams to bled more and more together. But she’s not disturbing the story so I’ll give the authour credit for that.

The overall conclusing for me must be, a bit more fighting, a bit more angst and that would earned the book the last star.

Off to the next book in the series “Chance at the Impossible” by the same author. To qout Arnold schwarzenegger ‘I’ll be back’

Book 1 Country Cop, City Boy – Authors blurb from Goodreads:
For ex-party boy Jai Latimore, moving to the country as a radiographer means a new start. He’s excited to be part of a rural community, even knowing that eligible gay men are going to be thin on the ground.
Giving up his love life is one thing, but he doesn’t expect the outright hostility he receives from the local police officer. Jai can’t help but wonder if he made a mistake taking a job so far from home. 
Sgt. Luke McClain definitely doesn’t want to desire Jai. Luke long ago decided being gay wasn’t an option as long as he was a country cop in a small town. It’s easier to be rude to the attractive radiographer—until some painkillers and a slip in Luke’s tightly held control reveal too much. Jai decides the closeted cop needs a friend who knows his secrets. With no other likely candidates around, Jai pushes his friendship on prickly Luke. 
When friendship turns to something more, both men have to decide whether their histories and fears for their futures are worth giving up hot sex and possibly love.

Book 2 City Suit, Country Boy- Authors blub from Goodreads:

Advertising executive Kris Worth has carefully arranged his life according to his own specifications. He knows what it is to lose control, and will never let that happen again. But in the year since his best friend found love and moved to the country, he’s begun to notice a shortage of meaningful connections in his relationships. Auto mechanic Billy Driscoll’s life is in free fall. His involuntary outing and a brutal beating at the hands of his brother have left him no alternative but to accept help in the form of an offer to move from the remote rural hamlet of Dungoon to urban Sydney. When former roommate Jai asks Kris to take Billy in, the prospect of babysitting a damaged country boy is daunting, but he finds he can’t say no. Each of these men is in for some surprises as he discovers his assumptions about the other may have been wildly inaccurate. They manage to find common ground—steamy sex can work wonders in that regard— but will they be able to move beyond their histories and turn their combustible chemistry into a lasting relationship? 

Both books was published in 2018, I haven’t been able to find a publisher so no publisher is mentioned.

Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️

THis was the first time I read something from this author. I going back to read her books again for sure.

I had a hard time with this. The first book was better than the second. Mainly because it features Luke the hot cop. No that’s not all. The storyline was ok, however many authours tend to make the same mistake. The build up the tension between the two mc’s to have sex and when it happens it seams to be the focus point of the rest of the book, and thats where you loose me. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind the sex, the vivid discriptions, but when that becomes the main focus of the story it’s bad. It’s kind of like you are happy for the first 100 miles in your new car and then It just feels flat.

I have a preference. I like big strong guy to be the top and smaller guy to bottom. I’m not sure why. But it does something to me when they switch, I don’t really like it, but I’m not goint to flaw the author for my preference that wouldn’t be fair

I’m not really sure why Luke (book one) is so scared of coming out. There isn’t much homophobia in the story other than what Luke pictures in his head. Lukes brother throw some homophobic slurs a few times, but even he falls into place without much drama when his son comes out as gay. I was kind of disappointed when Luke went to Mardi Gras, it would have been nice if he was a bit more reluctant, he is in the closet after all. But it kind of falls flat. Maybe some drama from from Jai’s previous life, his parents something just something that would have given the story and edge. 

Kris in book two is scared of relationsships. He had a bad one when he was doing alchol and drugs, I can understand why and yet not really, he just doesn’t do relationsships, maybe a bit more elaboration why would have been better. You don’t get an insigth into why the relationship was bad other than the alchol and drugs.

I also would have liked for the author to be a bit more creative in the theme of the two books. One book about a closet case is ok, but when you reuse the setting in another book it’s just like a copy though the Luke’s and Billy’s stories are diffrent. Where Luke stubbently refuses to come out because he’s affraid, Billy was forces/beaten out of the closet. But again a new theme for the second books would have been great.

One of the best part of these books are the characters, they are really great and loveble. Especially Luke and Billy, I like them. I like country boys/men there is something cute about them.

Great stories , but could have been better.

Home Improvement by Tara Lain

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


WHAT an amazing story. I LOVED IT.

Gabe works at a home improvement store. Jerry comes in to buy supplies for his home renovation. Gabe gets persuaded into helping the lost Jerry and oversee his home improvement project.
Gabe has to juggle his time between his daughter (teen dad), his job at the store and now the new project at Jerry’s.

On the mention of Jet, and the fact that Jerry disguise himself, you kind of easily guess that they are one and the same person. However that doesn’t really make the story bad, you kind of just start to wonder when Gabe and his daughter will find out who he really is.

The story is so beautiful, the development between the MC’s are great. Gabe and Jerry are both loveable personalities, you easily fall in love with them. Gabe being the gentle giant and Jerry trying to hide his true identity but he is so nice, maybe at time a bit naive (not sure that’s the right word to use about him), but still cute.

HEA, of cause, did you expect anything else. This is just my kind of story.



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