Welcome to the mercenary ship, The Blue Solace:Leti Ando needs off planet and fast. He has a best friend and a new half-sister to rescue, and he needs to be sneaky about it. Unfortunately sneaky isn’t really his thing. With the help of a friend, Leti and his menagerie, along with his two companions, stow away aboard a mystery ship. Little does he know that The Blue Solace belongs to the infamous … the infamous mercenary, Captain Will Hackett, a man he’ll come to love with everything inside him.
Will has been in a bitchy ass mood for the past six months. He’s restless and grumpy, but doesn’t know why. He knows he needs something and he can’t find it, but his crew are out of patience and insist on some R &R back home at Charybdis Station.
Then Hack finds a stow away angel and everything changes. Leti is his mate and he’ll do anything to keep him safe and happy, even smile.
The galaxy’s not a safe place, though, and The Blue Solace has a job to do: pick up a renowned scientist and his mysterious artifact. Then get them safely back to Charybdis Station. Hack and Leti don’t realize their romance story is about to get hijacked by Concord mercenaries. Their love is easy, it happens just like that. Staying alive and keeping the galaxy safe? That’s a little harder.
Author’s Note: 41,801 words. (Previously published as “Happens Just Like That”). This is a m/m love story with no angst and no cheating, just a HEA. There is lots of action, sex, mpreg, and a few potty mouths involved in the story. 18+ readers only, please. It is also the first of two books about this specific couple.
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This is the first book I read by this author (that was a week and a half ago) and I’ve since gone back and inhaled everything I could get my hands on. These are fun, romantic books that leave me smiling every time!
This is my review of the audiobook:
This story was a fun adventure with characters who quickly became important to me. There was a large cast, and I kept having to try to remember who some of the side characters were, but all of Hack’s crew-slash-family were fun and interesting. Leti was funny and sweet, and I loved how quickly Hack fell for him and embraced everything about his new mate. I can’t wait for the next installment of this story, and I hope it will feature the same narrator. His performance here was terrific, even with the challenge of voicing so many different characters.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review
Leti is half Prime and half Wello, which means he is a breeder male. As nasty as his father is to him, he is even more evil then one would expect. He has put Leti’s half sister on the block to be sold to the highest bidder. Thank god he had a friend who would be doing the bidder for him. He was determined to get his best friend, little sister and all of his animals off this blasted planet. They were going to stow away on a ship ran by mercenaries, although I am not sure he knows that part.
Will is getting moodier and moodier as time goes by. One of his crew realizes it just might be a sign that he is going to find his mate. What he finds is his mate, another young man, a baby girl and a large amount of animals in crates on his ship. Lets just say he won’t be getting moody after that.
Damn this was a blast to read, a real big surprise for me. Leti has a way with animals and damn if he just doesn’t seem to collect more family. There is very low angst throughout the story but does have quite a bit of action. Between the two however there is zero angst, well unless you count space walking. This is the first book by this author that I have read and lets just say she is going to become a favorite if she keeps this type of writing up. My attention was caught and damn if I don’t want to go back and read it again.
I can’t wait to get my hands on the next book. I had a blast reading it and would definitely recommend it. I can honestly say that this is one of those stories that will be read many times over.
This book was not for me. It doesn’t mean it was a bad book, it just wasn’t a book that I could connect with, but I think a lot of other readers will enjoy it. The writing was decent and I can tell C.W. Gray had a lot of fun writing this book and put a lot of effort into it.
I listened to the audiobook and it was nicely narrated with a wonderful performance. The narrator had to voice many different characters and he did it very well.
Solid 3 stars. KU borrow. This was a funny, no-angst book. All the “drama” was from external sources. Which is nice.
Our MC’s (Leti & Hack) are insta-love ~ but I give that a pass as it’s a “fated mate” thing. Unfortunately, they have a few cutesy convos and 2 or 3 sex scenes ~ but I didn’t really *feel* their relationship. We’re just told repeatedly they’re in love and there’s not much dialogue/interaction to back that up.
It also suffers from the drag of typical first in the series “world building” but to an extreme. There are a LOT of characters in this book. Leti comes with a friend, an infant sister, and a Dr. Doolittle-level menagerie of pets. Hack comes with his spaceship crew. All these people & pets have names, species/breeds descriptions, & personalities to keep track of as well as a few back stories. Then more people are picked up in a rescue so there’s more names & species to learn. Then there’s a battle involving Hack’s siblings and MORE rescues.
If I kept track correctly this was about 5 days worth of time. While I enjoyed the flow, action, and quite a bit of the humor ~ the number of characters was kind of exhausting. In some respects it’s awesome that this author has created such a varied and vivid world. It was just too much world for me to digest in a single volume and still enjoy the story.
I’m not sure I’ll continue this series (maybe I’ll come back after a bit because I *am* invested in some of these characters). I’ll also check out the other series this author has going.