Title: Barefoot Dancing
Series: Rags to Riches, #6
Author: T.A. Chase
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novella (30K words)
ISBN: 9781784302986
Publisher: Totally Bound (November 28th 2014)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥3 Hearts
Reviewer: Cat
Blurb: A moment in time can be the most pivotal one in our lives.
Kendall VanHooren is happy with his life. He works as a corporate lawyer in his father’s firm and does as he wishes on the weekends. He used to be a partier, but as he’s matured, he’s settled down and figured out that sometimes quiet is a good thing.
George Bowie is working a minimum wage job, which is barely keeping him off the streets most days. He lost his job in the banking crisis and has learned the hard way that pride has no place when it comes to survival.
Dancing barefoot on the beach might seem an odd thing to do, but it brings two men together at just the right moment for their worlds to collide
Purchase Link: https://www.totallybound.com/barefoot-dancing
Review: I absolutely Love the covers from this series.
Kendall VanHooren, Dayton’s brother (Dayton was featured in book 5) is at Ion and Adrien’s wedding reception (from the first couple of books). Walking on the beach to get away from the crowd for a bit he spots a beautiful man dancing barefoot on the beach. He takes off his shoes and joins him.
George Bowie lost his banking job in the banking disasters and market crashes a couple of years back and has been living on the streets until he moved to the Hamptons and took a job in a small diner for minimum wage so he didn’t have to sell himself just to eat. He still is staying in homeless shelters or cheap motels since he doesn’t make enough to eat and pay rent and utilities. He loves the beach and goes there on his days off to meditate and escape the harsh reality he lives in.
This is a beautiful story. It stands alone fine since each book features a fresh character that only has a mild connection with the other characters from previous stories. As in all the others, one character is wealthy and one is down on his luck.
I loved both of these characters. George is a lovely man who fell from his wealth into destitution. He wasn’t born wealthy but his previous job he lived well. Kendall, though he was born into wealth and his father was a republican Politian, his mother worked with lots of charitable organizations and made the boys work in one also. So Kendall has a kind, giving, accepting heart.
I will say I didn’t like this one as well as the first couple of books. There really wasn’t much plot here. The story was basically a fast-moving insta-love with lots of hot man-sex and nothing more. I would have liked to see more from George’s and Kendall’s past, at least a small amount of conflict instead of so much sex.
Having said that, this is a very good sweet, romance, with lots of steamy hot man-sex.