Title: Late Bloomer
Series: N/A
Author: Bru Baker
Genre: Contemporary/Holiday
Length: Novella (64 pages)
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (December 10th, 2014)
Heat Level: Low
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥4Hearts
Blurb: If not for his family and his Christmas tree farm, David Rochester would be a recluse. And Erik Shriver wouldn’t know a quiet moment if it smacked him in the face. But now David’s farm has brought them together. When Erik’s flurry of bad jokes and frenetic energy sets David off kilter, his family notices and begins conspiring. They push David and a very willing Erik together again and again until David stops denying his attraction.
But an almost-hermit and a soon-to-be-former club boy each bring baggage into a relationship. They’ll have to take things slowly to find the middle ground between David’s taciturn silence and Eric’s boundless chatter
ISBN: 978-1-62798-983-1
Product Link: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=5802
Reviewer: Prime
Review: This is a fairly cute Christmas story; there is some sweetness to it, but the sour nature of main man, David, kind of covers it up a bit. The story is as simple as the blurb states and really does show that opposites truly attract.
It was fun to see Erik throw David into a spin. David doesn’t like people, though plenty of people seem to like him. I think I like David because in some ways he reminds me of myself. David’s well meaning family are also quite a laugh, they all live in the same area and run the family business. Erik on the other hand, hides his true self behind a big smile and a lot of bad jokes. There is a lot more to these characters than meets the eye and that is what makes the story enjoyable. If it had been simply about these guys getting together, it’d be quite boring, but as it is, we get to know Erik and David and the strange little community they live in.
If you don’t want complicated, this is a nice story, although it left me wanting more.
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