Title: A Family of His Own
Series: Mannies Incorporated
Author: Sean Michael
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novel (202 pages)
Publisher: Torquere Press (December18th, 2013)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥3Hearts
Reviewer: Eli/Mandingo
Blurb: Will’s a widower with three little girls, including six-month-old twins, to look after. Most days it’s all Will can do just to get home from his advertising job in time for goodnight kisses, but now his mother-in-law is leaving the country with her new boyfriend and Will needs the help of a professional nanny.
Benji loves being a nanny; looking after other people’s kids is the next best thing to having his own, and as a gay man, he figures it’s as close as he’s going to get. He’s between jobs and is thrilled when he gets the call from Mannies Incorporated to interview with Will’s family.
He falls in love with the girls right away, but also finds himself attracted to their father. Benji knows he shouldn’t moon over his boss, especially when Will desperately really needs his services as a nanny, but he can’t help but wonder what it would be like to have a family of his own.
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Review: Will is a perfectly nice, overworked, undervalued, sexy, grieving widower who is rescued by an equally sexy male nanny who will step into his life, take care of him, his home, and his children. Benji, sexy male nanny will magically bring Will back to life and the two men will walk off happily into the sunset.
There is nothing new or original about this story. In fact, this story has been written many many times before. Often when reading a plotline that you’ve read before, the reader is hoping for a subtle twist, a character quirk or something that will make THIS story stand out. Truth be told, none of that is here. There is a rather quirky trait in the book in which one of the daughters’ features very heavily as a main character. It appears that the idea was to see the growth of Will as a father through the eyes of his eldest daughter who is turning three. The problem with this, however, is that the story degenerates into way too many graphic descriptions of both Will’s and Benji’s interactions with a precocious three-year old. It’s a clever idea and it works well the first few times it was done, however, after that it became very distracting to the story of the two men.
Summary: Perfectly ordinary story with nothing remarkable about either of the men or the plot. But, somewhat sweet. 🙂