Mason’s life isn’t going quite the way he planned. He’s taken a job at his mother’s real estate brokerage to pay the bills, and he wants to prove he can make a success of it. So he’s thrilled when the owner of a high-end mountain cabin hires him for what promises to be a big commission. It doesn’t hurt that Rhy is ruggedly handsome and good with his hands—in more ways than one. Despite the heat … heat that instantly sparks between them, Mason’s mom wouldn’t approve of him mixing business with pleasure, and he’s always been one to follow the rules. When a snowstorm forces him to bunk with Rhy for the weekend, he’s not sure he can resist temptation.
The last thing Rhy wants is to sell the cabin he inherited from his grandfather. It’s his only tie to what’s left of his family. But the isolation is getting to him, and he needs to move to a place closer to town. When he spots Mason’s photo in a local LGBT business directory, he knows he’s found his man—or at least his real estate agent. The guy is just as gorgeous in person, with his clean-cut looks and soulful puppy-dog eyes. Rhy can’t say he’s sorry when the guy gets stranded at his place. He’s happy for the company, and wouldn’t mind if they ended the weekend as more than friends.
But despite a stolen kiss, Mason wants to keep their relationship businesslike. Rhy isn’t sure he can deal with much more rejection—not after what happened with his parents. Mason’s optimistic nature is just what Rhy needs to awaken from the heavy sadness that’s blanketed him since the loss of his grandfather, the one person on earth he could truly rely on. Can Rhy convince Mason to give them a shot? Or is Rhy a fool to hope for love?
This steamy, snowbound gay romance novella has a happy ending and no cliffhanger.
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This is a quick, sweet read that is a little insta-love, forced proximity romance. Rhy and Mason are both adorable and the chemistry is obvious, but they both have issues that impede a relationship. Rhy has an unpleasant past with his parents and has lost the grandfather who was his only real supporter. Mason lacks independence and needs to learn to stand on his own where his over-bearing mother is concerned. When a snowstorm traps them together in Mason’s cabin, will they both take a chance on the potential for love or let it slip away? This is a sweet romance story with some drama and angst. I look forward to learning more about Rhy and Mason in the rest of the ‘I’m Your Man’ books.
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This was a sweet, endearing M/M love story. I enjoyed it and found it to be a quick read. The characters were sweet and awe inducing. They were also stubborn and a little stuck in their ways. The story ended well but felt like things were left open ended. It was a sweet read.
I give this a four out of five stars.
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It was nice reading Mason and Rhy’s romance after getting to know them a little in Snow-Melting Kisses. Their instant connection was sweet and HOT. I enjoyed their beginning knowing that their was a wonderful outcome.
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How hard do you fight for your love? Mason works for his Mother in her real estate company. He’s been employed for 4 months. He is the youngest with 2 older sisters. Rhys, is selling his Grandfather’s house because he feels he can’t live so isolated and maintain his sanity. While they were snowbound one weekend, they got to know each other better. They realized that they had major potential for a successful future relationship, except for the huge roadblocks. Can they knock the blocks down all at once? Do they need to remove each block one by one? Can Rhys win over Mason’s Mom? Nice story. Left a lot on the table. The characters are absolutely likeable but the author went basic with the ‘why’, I would have liked a deeper dive in Mason and Rhy’s stories.Nicely done. I received an ARC from Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Kissing a Fool is a sweet story. This my first time reading a story of Felix Brooks and Andrea Stalling. I want more. Mason and Ryan were a perfect fit. The chemistry between them was great. I just wished it was a little bit longer. But all in all a great book.
This was my first book by these authors and I am interested in reading more. This was a short yet sweet book. I thought that this was a great start to a series. Mason and Rhy are great together. I loved the connection and the chemistry between these two. Mason is very sensitive and wears his heart on his sleeve. Rhy had a rough (putting it lightly) up bringing and seems to be still healing from it. These two seem to equal each other and support each other very well. I really liked how Rhy finally decided to stand up for his feelings and fight for the relationship that he wanted with Mason without putting Mason out of a job. I can’t wait to see what happens in book two with these two.
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Two guys stuck in an awesome cabin for the weekend, this story had all the makings of awesome but it somehow didn’t connect. Something about the premise of two grown adults who can’t have a fling together and still maintain a working relationship didn’t sit well in this book. There are people out there having affairs on their husbands and wives, men and women still concealing their sexuality, and the list goes on of adults secretly having sex and doing it well. It was hard, in this story, to connect with the idea that they couldn’t as responsible adults enjoy each other’s company without having to continuously mention nothing can happen between them. I guess for me it’s odd that the only thing one can think of when finding someone attractive is it must turn into something serious. There are loads of people with mutual attraction and most of them are not compatible beyond physical attraction and that’s perfectly okay.
That out the way, Mason is continuously saying we can’t do anything but is forever swatting Rhy on his butt. It makes zero sense this flirtatiousness amongst other flirty things he does if he’s so serious about not doing anything with him. Go hard or not at all. I couldn’t believe him really because he didn’t have that much conviction. All words but didn’t back it up.
Nothing much to say about Rhy. I liked him in general. He liked Mason could tell he liked him back and acted on it. My anxiety-ridden self can appreciate that type of directness cause I don’t have it. Normally I would be annoyed that he ignored Mason’s request to back off, but Mason was a bit flirty and smacked him on the butt more than once so it was perfectly logical that he wouldn’t take him seriously. Rhy’s breakdown, however, seemed misplaced.
Basically, I wasn’t in the headspace to enjoy it yet. They had just gotten snowed in, were still in flirty stage, and as yet had not had their first adult encounter. I dunno but their relationship was still circling around Mason’s halfbaked ‘we can only be friends’ and Rhy seeing right through it, part of the story. This felt like a good end bit. The type of big emotional connection that could be used to finally sway Mason to be like, ‘yeah maybe we could work out’. Instead, it was used as a segway into their first encounter. It didn’t seem earned at that point so I couldn’t fully enjoy the steam once it happened. And, unfortunately, Mason says we can never do that again. The man you find attractive af, legit just had a nervous break down turning into a sobby mess revealing his life story and then, in his vulnerable state, you allowed an encounter to happen and you end with ‘we can’t do this again’? This just felt very wrong and almost like he used him instead of taking the moment and running forward with some sort of acceptance. I gave up around here, well a little past here.
The reason it gets three stars even though I didn’t finish is mostly because it checked all the boxes for what should be in this type of steamy romance. Readers will more than likely love this story. For me, however, the breakdown and subsequent encounter it lead to seemed to be in the wrong spot. The way Mason behaved lead me to believe he was professional in words but all for something more adult in behaviour, and I couldn’t get past the idea that them doing something together had to by default lead to something serious thus mixing business with pleasure.
I’d recommend to romance readers who want just a touch deeper than simple romance but with all the steamy fun that comes with it, this one will more than likely deliver.
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