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snakeyghost's review
4.0
3.5 “Because I fucking love you!” stars
I’d been happily minding my own business, stuck in the familiar rut of my life. I was content to be my grumpy-ass self. Then this kid shows up, and now I’m confused. I want things I’m not supposed to want. I need things I can’t need. But I do need them, and he’s flirting with me, and the flames keep licking higher.
So … i’m currently reading this one book but it’s breaking my heart and I needed a break from all the tears, so I decided to take a break from the book and read somethig sweet and fluffy to make myself feel better.
And since I have been getting tattoos to make myself feel better for the past few months (as in the number of tattoos on my body doubled since March haha), I figured, what better way to make myself feel better than to read a book about a tattoo artist?
Turns out that was probably the best choice I could have made because god did I enjoy this book. It was fluffy and light, with really good and well developed characters and really hot sex. Which was exactly what I needed at the moment.
Brief Summary
Caesar is a 51 years old renowed tattoo artist, he’s really grumpy, he thinks he’s better alone and hasn’t been with anyone in ages. Drew is 27 years old and his mom just died and he learnt who is dad is after her death (she never told him before). Drew looked up his dad and realized that he died a few years ago, so he seeks out a man that seemed to have been his dad’s best friend, to learn about his dad, that man happens to be Caesar. Instead of talking about Drew’s dad, they fall in love.
First, Jesus christ did I love Caesar. If you asked me to describe my perfect man in a book, I would answer an older silver fox, who’s hairy and had a beard, who’s prickly and really grumpy but has a sweet spot for his man and would do everything for him and who’s heavily tattooed. Also he has a motorcycle! All of this means that I fell in love with Caesar as soon as the book introduced me to him. In fact, I knew I was in love with Caesar as soon as Drew said this about him: “Why doesn’t he talk much?” “Because he’s too busy grunting?”. Caesar was so damn grumpy and I just adored him for it. I also really liked Drew, he was so so sweet and really fierce. I enjoyed his character a lot too.
“What kind of older guys are you into?” […] “I don’t know. Big guys. Muscular and hairy and rough. Like silver hair, burly thighs…” I cut myself off when I realize that I’m about to start describing Caesar. “Just, like, older guys,” I conclude, as though that answers everything.
Second, I really liked these two together. They compliment each other so well. I love how Drew is all sweet and sunshine and Caesar is all grumpy but has a soft spot for Drew, and only for Drew, they were such a good pair. I really enjoyed how Drew slowly broke through all of Caesar’s defenses and craved himself a spot in Caesar’s heart. I loved how Caesar just wanted to take care of Drew and do thing for him. I really enjoyed how Drew could understand Ceasar grumps and barely there sentences and how Drew never got mad or annoyed at Ceasar for being so grumpy. Also, I always love a good age gap couple, so I really appreciated that part.
I loved how Drew called Caesar softie, since Caesar is this big and grumpy dude, it was just lovely.
Third, I really enjoyed how these two easily settled together and how they went from acquaintences to lovers. I enjoyed how they easily settled together and all but I would have like some more push and pull, their relationship seemed to develop way too easily, expecially since Caesar was very grumpy and didn’t trust anyone.
Fourth, I really enjoyed all the parts about them finding parts for and restoring old arcade games, that was so fun.
Fifth, The sex scenes in this book were good. Drew hasn’t had sex in 6 years and Caesar hasn’t had sex in ages, which made them both so eager to have sex together, which was lovely to see. The sex scenes were nice and fit the story perfectly, although I could have done with more sex scenes, but I always want more of those haha But I did think that them going bareback was very rushed and not talked about enough, they just kind of did it without talking about it.
Also, just a random question but why the fuck would you want to get your bicep tattooed as your first tattoo, someone should have warned Drew how much that hurts haha
Seventh, I did really enjoyed Drew’s character but sometimes I felt like he pushed a little too much and I thought he was a bit too pushy.
Eight, this one is my biggest problem with the book. I am not the biggest fan of a guy who fucked someone’s dad and was in love with him and and then year’s later, gets with the kid. It just always feel wrong to me and like the kid is not the person they actually want. It just feels like their looking for the kid’s dad in the kid instead of wanting the kid for who he is. I had a really bad vibe of this for a while in this book. I’m not sure it I really enjoyed how Caesar kept thinking he can’t feel for Drew because he was in love with his dad, or if it really bothered me. A mix of the two I would say. I really didn’t appreciate how Caesar kept comparing Drew to his dad and how he felt about Drew to how Drew’s dad made him feel.
Ninth, these guys really need to learn how to communicate. If they talked for 5 seconds, the entire drama in the book could have been ignored. I also wasn’t the biggest of how everything was settled in the end, I wanted more talks and more everything, it just felt way too rushed for me.
I had a lot of fun reading this book, I read most of it in one sitting and it was exactly what I needed at the moment, I just wasn’t a big fan of the set up of the book.
I received an ARC of this book, and this is my honest review.
I’d been happily minding my own business, stuck in the familiar rut of my life. I was content to be my grumpy-ass self. Then this kid shows up, and now I’m confused. I want things I’m not supposed to want. I need things I can’t need. But I do need them, and he’s flirting with me, and the flames keep licking higher.
So … i’m currently reading this one book but it’s breaking my heart and I needed a break from all the tears, so I decided to take a break from the book and read somethig sweet and fluffy to make myself feel better.
And since I have been getting tattoos to make myself feel better for the past few months (as in the number of tattoos on my body doubled since March haha), I figured, what better way to make myself feel better than to read a book about a tattoo artist?
Turns out that was probably the best choice I could have made because god did I enjoy this book. It was fluffy and light, with really good and well developed characters and really hot sex. Which was exactly what I needed at the moment.
Brief Summary
Caesar is a 51 years old renowed tattoo artist, he’s really grumpy, he thinks he’s better alone and hasn’t been with anyone in ages. Drew is 27 years old and his mom just died and he learnt who is dad is after her death (she never told him before). Drew looked up his dad and realized that he died a few years ago, so he seeks out a man that seemed to have been his dad’s best friend, to learn about his dad, that man happens to be Caesar. Instead of talking about Drew’s dad, they fall in love.
First, Jesus christ did I love Caesar. If you asked me to describe my perfect man in a book, I would answer an older silver fox, who’s hairy and had a beard, who’s prickly and really grumpy but has a sweet spot for his man and would do everything for him and who’s heavily tattooed. Also he has a motorcycle! All of this means that I fell in love with Caesar as soon as the book introduced me to him. In fact, I knew I was in love with Caesar as soon as Drew said this about him: “Why doesn’t he talk much?” “Because he’s too busy grunting?”. Caesar was so damn grumpy and I just adored him for it. I also really liked Drew, he was so so sweet and really fierce. I enjoyed his character a lot too.
“What kind of older guys are you into?” […] “I don’t know. Big guys. Muscular and hairy and rough. Like silver hair, burly thighs…” I cut myself off when I realize that I’m about to start describing Caesar. “Just, like, older guys,” I conclude, as though that answers everything.
Second, I really liked these two together. They compliment each other so well. I love how Drew is all sweet and sunshine and Caesar is all grumpy but has a soft spot for Drew, and only for Drew, they were such a good pair. I really enjoyed how Drew slowly broke through all of Caesar’s defenses and craved himself a spot in Caesar’s heart. I loved how Caesar just wanted to take care of Drew and do thing for him. I really enjoyed how Drew could understand Ceasar grumps and barely there sentences and how Drew never got mad or annoyed at Ceasar for being so grumpy. Also, I always love a good age gap couple, so I really appreciated that part.
I loved how Drew called Caesar softie, since Caesar is this big and grumpy dude, it was just lovely.
Third, I really enjoyed how these two easily settled together and how they went from acquaintences to lovers. I enjoyed how they easily settled together and all but I would have like some more push and pull, their relationship seemed to develop way too easily, expecially since Caesar was very grumpy and didn’t trust anyone.
Fourth, I really enjoyed all the parts about them finding parts for and restoring old arcade games, that was so fun.
Fifth, The sex scenes in this book were good. Drew hasn’t had sex in 6 years and Caesar hasn’t had sex in ages, which made them both so eager to have sex together, which was lovely to see. The sex scenes were nice and fit the story perfectly, although I could have done with more sex scenes, but I always want more of those haha But I did think that them going bareback was very rushed and not talked about enough, they just kind of did it without talking about it.
Also, just a random question but why the fuck would you want to get your bicep tattooed as your first tattoo, someone should have warned Drew how much that hurts haha
Seventh, I did really enjoyed Drew’s character but sometimes I felt like he pushed a little too much and I thought he was a bit too pushy.
Eight, this one is my biggest problem with the book. I am not the biggest fan of a guy who fucked someone’s dad and was in love with him and and then year’s later, gets with the kid. It just always feel wrong to me and like the kid is not the person they actually want. It just feels like their looking for the kid’s dad in the kid instead of wanting the kid for who he is. I had a really bad vibe of this for a while in this book. I’m not sure it I really enjoyed how Caesar kept thinking he can’t feel for Drew because he was in love with his dad, or if it really bothered me. A mix of the two I would say. I really didn’t appreciate how Caesar kept comparing Drew to his dad and how he felt about Drew to how Drew’s dad made him feel.
Ninth, these guys really need to learn how to communicate. If they talked for 5 seconds, the entire drama in the book could have been ignored. I also wasn’t the biggest of how everything was settled in the end, I wanted more talks and more everything, it just felt way too rushed for me.
I had a lot of fun reading this book, I read most of it in one sitting and it was exactly what I needed at the moment, I just wasn’t a big fan of the set up of the book.
I received an ARC of this book, and this is my honest review.
eyelit's review
emotional
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
3.0
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