Alex Michaels is a successful manager for a Wall-Street financial firm and lives in a beautiful hi-rise apartment overlooking Central Park. Anyone looking in from the outside would say Alex has it made, especially his working-class parents who wanted more for their only son.Nick is working his way through graduate school with dreams of becoming a teacher so he can help kids like himself. With his … himself. With his parents cutting him off and leaving him with nothing but a student apartment and low self-esteem, he’s determined to make something of himself in spite of them.
Even Nick’s club friends think Alex is too good for him, but Alex keeps showing Nick how worthy he is. Alex learns a lot from Nick, too—how not to give up on his dreams.
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This was surprisingly hard for me to get into. I think part of that was Alex. Here is a grown man, who has a successful job, albeit one he hates, and he is still letting a bunch of his co-workers boss him around and pressure him to go clubbing. He mentally complains about these woman over and over again, and yet he still listened to them pressure him about finding a guy and encouraging his to hit on his boss. Ew. Alex wasn’t a very likable character for me.
Nick was quite enjoyable. He was funny and sweet. He certainly complimented Alex well. He’s just working his way through school on his way to becoming a teacher when he meets Alex. There are several meetings between them before they actually take anything outside of the club.
I kind of liked that this was a story just following two guys falling in love. So many books use some pop up drama at 70% to insert conflict into the story. We don’t get that here. What we do get is a sexy little story of Alex and Nick making the foray into love. It’s low angst and sweet over all.
*I received a copy of this book from NineStar Press and this is my honest review.
3.5 STARS!!!
After Hours was a good romance read. I enjoyed all of the characters in this book and there were quite a few. However, they were enjoyable characters that will give you more than a few laughs as you read this story. This was a sweet, steamy romance read with a little bit of drama and great chemistry between Alex and Nick, who are the main characters. I was truly expecting a little more drama because this was a little too sweet. I was just waiting for something to happen because I honestly expected a little more than a light but steamy romance read from a book with this title. There were moments where it seemed like a buildup for drama was going to happen and then it just fizzled out. The story was a little slow in some parts but overall, it was a good read and I would give another book from this author a try. Even though it wasn’t a 5 star read for me, I would still recommend readers that enjoy a good M/M romance read to give this book a try.
After Hours by Emjay Haze is the story of Alex and Nick.
Alex looks to have it all rising to the top with a great apartment but Alex has another dream that he would like to go for. Nick is a hard working guy trying to make it through Grad School and also working at the “After Hours” club to earn money.
Alex sees how dedicated Nick is to work toward his dream job and that makes Alex thinks to maybe start working toward what he wants to do also.
This was actually a sweet easy read romance!