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Something About You
by Riley Hart
Grayson “Saint” St. Claire was unattached, successful and not looking for any kind of relationship commitment any time soon. Having lost the parents he loved in a plane crash, Saint thought himself to be completely alone as he had always been led to believe by his own father. Imagine his shock when an email landed in his inbox telling him he had a grandmother in some small hick town in Virginia, clear across the country. Saint dismissed the summons and tried to put it out of his mind until a month later when he found himself sitting inside his Corvette at a gas station in that very same small town, wondering just what in the hell he had been thinking chasing down a relative he knew nothing about.
Lucky Tyler Holloway lived a life in the shadow of his protective family. Still in his parents’ basement and working as the town handy man, with some construction work on the side, Tyler eschewed the common belief that he was a golden boy despite every one telling him so, that he was a good soul and his nature was to help others. He dated occasionally and even though everyone in town was sure he would one day marry his best friend, Tyler knew differently. A vacation trip to Mexico and a hot kiss with an even hotter man had confirmed what Tyler had known all along—he was different, definitely bisexual, and hiding one more secret that not even his best friend knew. But he had run away after that kiss, overwhelmed by its implications and unwilling to deal with the truth it brought. When Tyler spots Saint across the street from the diner, he knows two things immediately: one, the man is hot, and secondly, he can’t stand him. But time and proximity have a way of wearing down even the most stubborn of us all, and Saint and Tyler are about to feel its effects.
The love story of Saint and Lucky is wonderfully laid out in Riley Hart’s Something About You. Coupling an experienced smooth talking Saint with the shy, scared and somewhat closeted Tyler was a bit of genius on the author’s part. Both men had an appeal, but, for me, it was Saint who really stole the show. I felt that the emphasis on both men’s lives and the crossroads they found themselves at was pretty evenly divided. While I sometimes found Tyler’s naivete and lack of sexual experience a bit uninteresting, I definitely keyed into the emotional turmoil Saint was experiencing. Not only was Saint’s story of having discovered his father had lied about there being no other living relatives interesting, but the idea that he was, in his own words, a “bit of a slut” and ran from emotional attachments, only to find himself really liking Tyler, made for an intense epiphany that nearly took poor Saint apart.
I felt the little twist around Tyler’s “secret” both sexy and sweet, primarily because of how Saint handled the reveal and made Tyler feel so very special after his confession. The two grandmothers, Helen and Alice, were incredibly sweet and funny, and even Tyler’s family was rather pleasant if not a bit cloying at times. Something About You is a journey of self-discovery for both men—one to understand his sexuality, the other to find that his sense of home was broader and yet simpler than he had ever imagined it to be. The novel had some beautifully intimate moments that allow the reader to really understand both main characters. Those looking to escape into a tender romance will delight in Something About You.
Reviewed by Sammy for The Novel Approach
Lucky Tyler Holloway lived a life in the shadow of his protective family. Still in his parents’ basement and working as the town handy man, with some construction work on the side, Tyler eschewed the common belief that he was a golden boy despite every one telling him so, that he was a good soul and his nature was to help others. He dated occasionally and even though everyone in town was sure he would one day marry his best friend, Tyler knew differently. A vacation trip to Mexico and a hot kiss with an even hotter man had confirmed what Tyler had known all along—he was different, definitely bisexual, and hiding one more secret that not even his best friend knew. But he had run away after that kiss, overwhelmed by its implications and unwilling to deal with the truth it brought. When Tyler spots Saint across the street from the diner, he knows two things immediately: one, the man is hot, and secondly, he can’t stand him. But time and proximity have a way of wearing down even the most stubborn of us all, and Saint and Tyler are about to feel its effects.
The love story of Saint and Lucky is wonderfully laid out in Riley Hart’s Something About You. Coupling an experienced smooth talking Saint with the shy, scared and somewhat closeted Tyler was a bit of genius on the author’s part. Both men had an appeal, but, for me, it was Saint who really stole the show. I felt that the emphasis on both men’s lives and the crossroads they found themselves at was pretty evenly divided. While I sometimes found Tyler’s naivete and lack of sexual experience a bit uninteresting, I definitely keyed into the emotional turmoil Saint was experiencing. Not only was Saint’s story of having discovered his father had lied about there being no other living relatives interesting, but the idea that he was, in his own words, a “bit of a slut” and ran from emotional attachments, only to find himself really liking Tyler, made for an intense epiphany that nearly took poor Saint apart.
I felt the little twist around Tyler’s “secret” both sexy and sweet, primarily because of how Saint handled the reveal and made Tyler feel so very special after his confession. The two grandmothers, Helen and Alice, were incredibly sweet and funny, and even Tyler’s family was rather pleasant if not a bit cloying at times. Something About You is a journey of self-discovery for both men—one to understand his sexuality, the other to find that his sense of home was broader and yet simpler than he had ever imagined it to be. The novel had some beautifully intimate moments that allow the reader to really understand both main characters. Those looking to escape into a tender romance will delight in Something About You.
Reviewed by Sammy for The Novel Approach