Reviewed by Danielle

TITLE: Frankie & Al

AUTHOR: Sue Brown

PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press

LENGTH: 158 Pages

BLURB:

Dumped by his boyfriend, Frankie Mason goes out with the girls, gets totally trashed, and ends his night by falling in front of a taxi. He’s rescued by a man with beautiful green eyes who takes care of him until he’s put into an ambulance. Frankie curses himself as he realizes he doesn’t have the man’s phone number. Still in pain a few days later, he is dragged out to a club only to be saved by Green Eyes once more. This time, he isn’t letting the man go.

Unfortunately Frankie has to attend a team-building exercise, nicknamed Womb Weekend, organized by his company. Al is working so he doesn’t mind, until he discovers who the team leader is. Al has a lot of explaining to do

REVIEW:

I am alway looking forward to seeing a new release of author Sue Brown, the  way she is able to make you as a reader feel connected with her main characters.

In a way there is always a sympathetic factor there or a resemblance to yourself or a wanting to be, well you get the picture I suppose 🙂

In this story we meet Frankie. He’s clumsy and been dumped and pushes all the right buttons as a reader. You cannot help liking him, feeling for him, his flamboyance, openly gay attitude.

Compared to that we have Al, a bit of a dominant man, used to caring instead of being cared for. He’s trying to be there for his mum in the final steps of her life, while making a living as a project manager in team-building assignment weekends.

Frankie meets Al when Al is Mr. Green Eyes, the man who saves him not once, but twice. He doesn’t know anything else about the man who helps him.

What a surprise it is when Frankie attends the team-building weekend while he is still in pain and finds out who the team leader is. The chemistry that was there in the earlier meetings is still there full force.

After the explanations are out of the way, there is time to move forward and without spoiling too much they sure do ;)I always look forward to a new story from author Sue Brown. I like her easy way of writing and th

Frankie meets some nice people during the weekend that need to be mentioned! Carol and Ray are fantastic. Carol is spicy, forward, protective and a “way to go Girl” and Ray, after he almost blows up his whole presence there, turns out to be a genuine supportive guy.

What I missed in this story was a kind of deepness; it need to get down to a more intense level and needed a bit more exploration of characters or situations.

In the end author Sue Brown definitely brings out the drama and creates a very sweet epilogue that makes you satisfied and comfortable.

This in general is an easy comfortable read, a nice story that you won’t regret picking up.

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