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A review by dith_kusu
Caulky by K.M. Neuhold
4.0
This was my first read by this author, and it was a lighthearted fun smutty time which was fine by me, good intro first book to a new series.
The premise is of Ren, a technical manual writer with a beekeeping hobby/side gig having been broken up with and wanting a rebound, and him flirting with a bear of a man in the resident gay bar and getting a friends with benefits regular hookup situation started. Said bear is Cole, who co-owns his own successful construction business (Four Bears Construction, wink wink get the blatant sex pun?) with his brother and two best friends, who has always been commitment avoidant and never had a serious relationship before.
On top of their connection at the bar and weekly hookup starting, Ren remodels his bathroom and serendipitously, Cole is the guy he hires to do so! The other coincidence topping the cherry is Ren signing up on a gay online dating app and ending up messaging Cole (CaulkyAF) as Rebound, and them striking up a chatty more intimate anonymous online friendship. So basically this story is just them hooking up, discovering they are doubly matched with the universe really throwing them together, usual slight conflict with commitment levels near the end, then deciding to date for real, and in the end them settling into blissful domesticity.
Ren and Cole had chemistry, and the sex stuff was fun and cute- I did laugh at Cole checking off the bingo for seeing a sex toy out in the open during client site visits. Who hasn't run into this cutesy scenario before, complete with half asleep caught off guard protagonist opening their door to the porn premise of hot contractor coming into the house to... fix and build and hammer things?
Ren's side business of making honey and related products was cute here, and the other guys to later on have their own books in this series were good here too. Cole's brother who is twice divorced and always searching for love, the single dad seemingly only straight in the group who would probably end up bi or pan in his own book, the one who just moved into a fixer upper and will end up with his conflict-starting neighbor. Fun concept that these are men in their early forties, which I haven't read about as much in romance aside from age gap romances, and they're burly bears men in construction. It's like a Sex and the City vibe for older buff gay men.
The premise is of Ren, a technical manual writer with a beekeeping hobby/side gig having been broken up with and wanting a rebound, and him flirting with a bear of a man in the resident gay bar and getting a friends with benefits regular hookup situation started. Said bear is Cole, who co-owns his own successful construction business (Four Bears Construction, wink wink get the blatant sex pun?) with his brother and two best friends, who has always been commitment avoidant and never had a serious relationship before.
On top of their connection at the bar and weekly hookup starting, Ren remodels his bathroom and serendipitously, Cole is the guy he hires to do so! The other coincidence topping the cherry is Ren signing up on a gay online dating app and ending up messaging Cole (CaulkyAF) as Rebound, and them striking up a chatty more intimate anonymous online friendship. So basically this story is just them hooking up, discovering they are doubly matched with the universe really throwing them together, usual slight conflict with commitment levels near the end, then deciding to date for real, and in the end them settling into blissful domesticity.
Ren and Cole had chemistry, and the sex stuff was fun and cute- I did laugh at Cole checking off the bingo for seeing a sex toy out in the open during client site visits. Who hasn't run into this cutesy scenario before, complete with half asleep caught off guard protagonist opening their door to the porn premise of hot contractor coming into the house to... fix and build and hammer things?
Ren's side business of making honey and related products was cute here, and the other guys to later on have their own books in this series were good here too. Cole's brother who is twice divorced and always searching for love, the single dad seemingly only straight in the group who would probably end up bi or pan in his own book, the one who just moved into a fixer upper and will end up with his conflict-starting neighbor. Fun concept that these are men in their early forties, which I haven't read about as much in romance aside from age gap romances, and they're burly bears men in construction. It's like a Sex and the City vibe for older buff gay men.