A review by bfdbookblog
Trust with a Chaser by Annabeth Albert

5.0

Seriously…it’s like Ms. Albert has a window into my heart…she always writes the sweetest books and her characters say and do the sweetest things that make my heart happy. And even with this being a closet story that I’ve started shying away from because of the hurt and angst, I loved it. While there was some hurt between Nash and Mason, there was a lot of sweet and healing too. This is a great start to what stands to be another fantastic series.

Oh man, Nash broke my heart a bit. It’s always the stoic ones that claim not to need anything or anyone that fall the hardest. He suffers from the ‘don’t know what you’ve been missing until you’ve had it and lost it’ problem. He’s been living in the shadow of and for the ghost of a man that wasn’t exactly a great father. He’s closed himself off from everyone and basically survives for his job and his father’s legacy. He really only has one ‘friend’ until Mason breaks through his tough exterior and boy does Mason break through. Nash is not only in the closet, he’s also a closet romantic and so endearingly sweet and child-like I want to hug him. I really love his jealous, possessive side!

Mason struggles with familial pressures as well only his get a lot nastier. His family truly is a mess and pretty worthless. Mason has worked hard to prove his worth and people still don’t trust him. He’s feisty and sees through Nash’s tough exterior to the man he could be with the right man by his side. Nash correctly labels him as ‘trouble’ and Mason fully lives up to that assessment when it comes to Nash. He is the perfect person to show Nash how to truly live. I absolutely love him and Nash together.

The idea Mason and his group of friends have for Rainbow Cove is fun and I can’t wait to see what else they bring to town. There are several great characters we meet in this book and I can't wait to read about all of them!

Nash said something that pretty much sums up how I feel about folks being ashamed of their sexuality or feeling the need to hide. It’s a bit spoiler-ish so I’m hiding the quote. Read at your own risk.
Spoiler I’d spent years being concerned that Marta and people like her might turn away from me, and now that it had finally happened, I was surprised by how little I actually cared. What mattered was what Mason and I had together, not what a few narrow-minded people thought. I only wished I’d been able to come around to that way of thinking sooner. The people who truly loved me would accept me for who I was, not some mythic ideal of the local police chief that even my father hadn’t been able to fulfill. Sure, he’d been the quintessential officer, but at what price?