Title: Second Helpings
Series: Cowboy Sandwich, # 2
Author: Drew Hunt
Genre: Contemporary/Western/MMM
Length: Novel (188 pages)
Publisher: JMS Books (December 7th, 2014)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥2.5 – 3 Hearts
Blurb: The men from the best-selling novel Cowboy Sandwich are back for a second helping of threesome loving and humor. When their mobile ranch game is nominated for several awards by a gaming magazine in London, Barry Logan, Jimmy Wilson, and Jake Pierce fly across the Atlantic to visit Barry’s family as well as attend the games convention and awards ceremony.
Driving on the wrong side of the road, paying a small fortune for gas, eating strange foods, and dealing with an unfamiliar temperature scale are just the start of Jimmy’s and Jake’s adventures. Tensions run high after the awards ceremony. Jimmy and Jake see how well connected Barry is within the games industry and know they can’t offer him the sort of career and life a talented games developer deserves.
After their weeklong visit to the UK, will they be flying back to the States as a threesome, strengthened by their trials, or will the relationship fracture under the strain of incompatibility?
ISBN: 9781611527056
Product Link: http://www.jms-books.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=29_94&products_id=1290
Reviewer: Prime
Review: This is the second book in the Cowboy Sandwich series, which must be read in order to understand the plot points and relationships of the main characters. If you haven’t read book 1, go back and read it now because this one will leave you baffled otherwise.
Okay, I’m going to straight out admit it – I didn’t like this book as much as I liked the first. I think it’s because this just feels like an extension of the first, which doesn’t truly bother me, it just makes this book a sequel in the truest sense of the word.
However, what I think is that this book is missing the tension and the arguments of the first book (ok, argument isn’t quite the right word, but it gets my point across). These guys aren’t fighting for anything, they’ve settled into a normal relationship, which is about where most stories end.
Instead, this is the story of three guys in a sexual relationship and who love each other, go overseas together. Barry has developed a game that is nominated for a number of awards, so Barry is bringing his men to the awards ceremony and convention. The catch is because the ceremony is in London, it is a British award, and they get to meet Barry’s family. I kind of wish Barry’s family was mentioned a bit more or there was just more to their plot.
The rest of the story was well written, but as I said, there were no tensions, no arguments (petty or otherwise). There were a few minor characters, but aside from Barry’s family, they were well and truly minor characters. Jimmy and Jake, however, were as funny and as competitive as they were in the first book, which for me was the main highlight. But as a personal gripe: Jimmy and Jake were the kind of tourists I don’t understand – seriously, when I go to a foreign country I go out of my way to find food that is not what I get back home.
This was one of those weird books for me again. I didn’t outright hate it, but I didn’t love it. I certainly enjoyed it and I liked meeting up with the three characters I had met in book 1. But when I started to over think things it took away from my enjoyment as I started to pick apart the plot. But to be fair, I tend to over analyse almost everything.
* I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review through http://mmgoodbookreviews.wordpress.com *