Title: Love Unmasked
Series: N/A
Author: AJ Llewellyn
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novel (154 pages)
Publisher: Amber Quill (30 Nov 2014)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥5Hearts
Blurb: American author Charlie Hawkes wins a writing scholarship to spend a year in Venice, Italy. It’s a magical place, especially when he meets and begins dating sexy young café owner, Franco. But then, Charlie almost dies in a boating accident and winds up in a coma. The next time he sees Franco is during Venice’s renowned Carnivale, and Charlie truly can’t remember him. The cat mask Franco’s wearing, however, triggers something in Charlie’s shattered memory.
Franco is a young man with much sadness in his life. He’s juggling his duties between his café and a chocolate shop in St. Mark’s Square, and desperately yearning for love because his mother disapproves of his sexuality. Not only that, but the one man to whom he’s been attracted—Charlie, the handsome, forgetful American—vanishes for a short time before reappearing and seeming like a different person.
Slowly the masks come off, and it soon becomes apparent that both men have secrets that peel away in layers. Can Franco and Charlie have the passion they desire, and can the love they feel for each other ever be unmasked?
ISBN: 978-1-61124-710-7
Product Link: http://www.amberquill.com/store/p/2081-Love-Unmasked.aspx
Reviewer: Prime
Review: A really sweet book in a fantastically romantic setting with a hot Italian who wants nothing more than to cherish and protect his lover. Best damn story line you could get without there being cowboys involved, lol.
Yes, so there is no secret that I loved this story. When it opens we meet Charlie (aka Charlie the Forgetful American), he’s on some sort of arts exchange program from the US now living in Venice for a year. He needs to write a book as part of his scholarship but it seems a damn good scholarship (I wouldn’t mind one, I wonder if there is one for scientists…)
Anyway, Charlie isn’t there long before he starts to run into Franco, he is a waiter and runs his brother’s cafe. He has a harpy for a mother and a really sweet nonna. In fact, after the main characters Franco’s nonna is easily the best character, or at least the nicest, while his mother vies for most hated alongside Charlie’s mother.
Franco is like a knight in shining armour when it comes to taking care of Charlie in his hour of need. It is both sweet and beautiful. While there is a large dose of insta-love, it is easily relatable. It certainly had my heart aflutter.
I’m sure my family would love me to find a good Italian boy. I wonder if they come as a complete, awesome package like Franco?
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