Ok, I’ll admit that the title is a bit or totally misleading. But this post is mainly about me reading series. I of cause don’t know how you do it, you tell me?
Nothing is set in stone for me when it comes to reading series, sometimes I do this and sometimes I do that. But I do tend to have a few habits.
Depending on how long the series I’ll reread the whole thing again before reading the new book.
That can be a long process. Again it not solid but I would say that if the series is five books or more I won’t reread the all the books again. BUT, if it’s really good and I have it on my ‘To read again list’ I might just read all the books once again up til the new one but I don’t tend to do that whit longer series, I’ll read the new book and then revisit the whole thing again some other time when I feel like it. I do have a few favourite books that I’ve read multiple times, but I don’t do that much because there are so many books to be read. I’ve even had books in a serie where I only read one books out of the all, because that books was better than the other or I liked the story so much. But even then I makes sense because you know the story from the start. Now I know you might find it weird that I just read the new book, I do know the story. I think the reason for that is that I read so many books that I sometimes can’t remember every little detail or as I wrote, I just like it too much not to reread it.
Some authors will release books in a series as a stand alone, and all that is good, however I mostly fell like I’m missing out on something because they mention people or events that happened in a previous book, it may not be crucial to the story or might not even mean something yet you don’t know who the people are and how they fit in so I don’t like that. I’m not going to say I can’t look past it, it just doesn’t sit well with me.
I have read one series I think where the books were in a random oder, no #1 or #2 or whatever. It was kind of confusing and I never really understood why the author didn’t organise the books in a particular order as to be read it would have made sense and no I’m not going to tell you which series, because it’s irrelevant to this post. Maybe I have book OCD or something, I like them to be in order.
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.
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.
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.
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