3.97 AVERAGE

ava_g11's review

4.5
emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

monae_reads's review

2.0
emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

What is with this man and writing s*x scenes in closets.

monicaholm's review

4.25
adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

M. A. Wardwell has done it again! Wow I just loved this book. I had been looking forward to Kent’s book since the teaser in Mistletoes & Mishigas and it delivered.

First of all, the diversity in this series? Hello? Amazing! Also, Kent’s acceptance of Vincent’s OCD was just everything.

I don’t typically connect with books where there’s a big sexual focus at the start as I like the emotional connection first. So the fact that this book kept me hooked and entertained is so impressive to me.

I cannot recommend this series enough!

4.25⭐️
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bookobsessedmommy's review

4.0
emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ok hear me out. This book is has insta-love and characters making completely mind boggling decisions (more supply closet escapades with your JOB on the line!) but it's so freaking sweet! And hot! I love the variety in their intimacy and willingness to try new things. This is just a fun romp and I'm ready for more in this series. 

medgirld's review

4.25
funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Age gap M/M romance, OCD representation. Silver daddy, steamy!

delecterble's review

4.0
emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
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pastelwriter's review

3.0
funny hopeful fast-paced
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I have complicated feelings about this book ☹️ I wanted to love it without question, but I just didn’t. 

If I’m honest, what truly carried this book was the personalities of Vincent and Kent. I loved them both as individuals. I especially loved seeing Kent’s interactions with his family. They were lovely and sweet. I also enjoyed seeing Vincent interact with Kent’s family. When Kent took Vincent to Legoland? Be still my heart! That was really heartwarming 💖

The main thing that didn’t work for me was the smut in this. The particular kinks in this book just didn’t make sense to me—especially with Vincent’s OCD 😩 For example, Vincent’s OCD does very much present as a need for things to be really clean around him, and he has a whole crisis precisely because of this and the circumstances around their first sexual encounter. Then tell me how this same man is gonna indulge Kent’s foot fetish? 😭 It just didn’t add up to me. 

I also feel like it was through the kinks that Kent’s character was slightly ruined. Kent is an older gentleman, but the way the author wrote him sometimes made him seem like he was a 70+ years old man. My guy didn’t even know what a harness was and where to get one. THAT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE! I feel like still most people his age would know 1. what a sex (toy) shop is 2. that you can buy anything online. I don’t know. It was just bizarre to me how he was written when it came to stuff in the bedroom. 

I don’t know 😩 I truly wanted to love this…but so far this author has only had one true hit with me and that’s Mistletoe and Mishigas. I see an alternate universe where this book was also a hit, but it was a partial miss primarily because the kinks and Vincent’s OCD didn’t quite line up in my mind. 

laurasxreads's review

4.0
funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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ginzengtea's review

3.5
funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was simply so cute I love old gays
Also I’ll never look at smoothies the same.