Book Title: Love You Senseless: Men of London
Author: Susan Mac Nicol
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group
Book Length: 160 pages
Genre: Gay, Romance, Novel
Book Blurb:
One of London’s up-and-coming chefs, Eddie Tripp has just the right recipe to drive tragedy from the mind of Gideon Kent—and leave him senseless with desire. THE MEN OF LONDON From Soho to Norwich, there’s no escaping love. A TASTE OF FOREVER An award-winning chef with his own restaurant and an inexhaustible passion, Gideon Kent once had everything. Then came tragedy. It stole more than Gideon’s home. He hasn’t cooked since. Until Eddie Tripp. Fun-loving and vivacious, the Norfolk redhead’s a real up-and-comer in Gideon’s kitchen—and other places. Slim where Gideon’s broad, easy-going where Gideon is growly, he and Gideon seem polar opposites, and yet Eddie conjures flavors that would tempt anyone with a taste for perfection. The sauce of love is already simmering, and this pair is about to dine on the most delicious dish they’ve ever prepared. Because Eddie’s been Gideon’s missing ingredient all along.
It was around seven o’clock when he made his way back from a quick meeting with Sarah and heard giggles and deep masculine laughter from Carmen’s office. He’d thought about Carmen’s words earlier and decided that perhaps he might have an early night and get upstairs by eight tonight. He wasn’t going to Bon Appétit, not on a goth night—Gideon shivered at the thought—but he might start that DVD box set he had of Game of Thrones. A night in sounded like a plan. He had plenty in his kitchen to eat and he was sure he could knock up something nutritious if not tasty. He still cooked for himself as it was plain, simple food that didn’t need much effort. Eating nowadays for him was a means to end and no longer any form of enjoyment.
He wandered over to Carmen’s office, jacket slung over his arm, and stood at the door. He stopped dead, his heart beating like a pacemaker gone wrong and his dick instantly standing to attention at the scene before him. Eddie stood with his back to him, in black skin-tight leather trousers, and Gideon could hardly drag his eyes away. The leather fabric hugged a taut, round backside, clearly defined in its two parts and leaving little to the imagination. His feet were encased in high-heeled, studded boots that made his normal five-foot-five or -six height closer to eye level at Gideon’s just over six-foot. Eddie wore a black, silky, skin-tight tank top, showing off well-defined arms and pecs that Gideon didn’t even know he had. Eddie tended to wear loose tee shirts and baggy jeans most of the time.
This strongly muscled, very sexy figure was miles away from the Eddie that cooked in the kitchen.
Gideon felt faint.
Eddie’s rich red hair was streaked with what looked like black boot polish and he had long gold hoop earrings in both ears. He looked like pure sin on legs and Gideon wanted to sin with him, oh so badly.
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REVIEW by Donna
I love books that are set in restaurants but at the same time I’m always hesitant to read them. How often do these stories end up derailed by such detailed descriptions of menus and recipes that you feel like you’re actually reading a cookbook instead of a romance? Well rest assured my friends that that is not what happens here. Although both of our MCs are chefs and probably half of the book is set in the restaurant, the story never focuses on Eddie’s cooking but the fact that Gideon is no longer cooking.
Just six months ago Gideon was a renowned chef with a restaurant in London’s Soho but an explosion and a fire and the grisly death of his friend changed all of that. Now, although he still has his restaurant, he can’t work as a chef because he has lost the senses of smell and taste. So, as one of his employees foolishly points out, he’s reduced to being nothing but the restaurant’s manager and he’s become a very angry man.
The story was written with an alternating point of view, which I really think was the only way to go. I often felt the urge to hurt Gideon and I think without his point of view, without understanding the anguish he was living with, he easily could have become a character I hated. He was so quick to lash out and hurt people, especially Eddie, that even knowing what was going on in his head, I often found it difficult to like him.
Eddie however, is easy to love. Eddie is the young sous chef in Gideon’s restaurant and is often the focus of Gideon’s wrath. We know that Gideon’s frustration with Eddie is the result of jealousy and lust but poor Eddie is clueless. Honestly, Eddie could have been nominated for sainthood for the way he dealt with Gideon. The only plus side to watching Gideon shove Eddie away every time he panics is being able to enjoy the contrast when Gideon finally gets his head out of his ass and turns to Eddie when he panics instead.
I’m already in love with Eddie’s two best friends and roommates and I can’t wait for the next book in the series. Although, that’s just me assuming that the mysterious Taylor and the flamingly fabulous Leslie will be getting their own stories.
I realize that the tags attached to this make the book sound angsty (attempted rape/ attempted suicide) but I assure you that it’s not. Okay, I cried, but honestly that means nothing cause I tend to cry a lot.
I have yet to be disappointed by a Susan Mac Nicol book and I’ll definitely be raising my hand to review the rest of the series.
RATING: 
Susan Mac Nicol is a self confessed bookaholic, an avid watcher of videos of sexy pole dancing men, self confessed geek and nerd and in love with her Smartphone. This little
treasure is called ‘the boyfriend’ by her long suffering husband, who says if it vibrated,
there’d be no need for him. Susan hasn’t had the heart to tell him there’s an app for that…
She is never happier than when sitting in the confines of her living room/study/on a cold station platform scribbling down words and making two men fall in love. She is a romantic at heart and believes that everything happens (for the most part) for a reason.
She likes to think of herself as a ‘half full’ kinda gal, although sometimes that philosophy is sorely tested.
Lover of walks in the forest, theatre productions, dabbling her toes in the cold North Sea
and the vibrant city of London where you can experience all four seasons in a day , she is a hater of pantomime (so please don’t tar and feather her), duplicitous people, bigotry and self righteous idiots.
In an ideal world, Susan Mac Nicol would be Queen of England and banish all the bad people to the Never Never Lands of Wherever -Who Cares. As that’s never going to happen, she contents herself with writing her HEA stories and pretending, that just for a
little while, good things happen to good people.
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1st Prize: A signed copy of Double Alchemy (1 winner)
2nd & 3rd Prize: Two e-books, reader’s choice, any book they want (Susan Mac Nicol back list), any format (2 winners)
An digital copy of a Susan Mac Nicol Backlist title!
Thanks for the great giveaways!
Please count me in, thank you.
thanks for the chance!
I’m a big fan – can’t wait to read this one.
I would really, really like a chance to win a Susan MacNicol book. She’s new to me, but this sounds so good. The backlist look wonderful too. 🙂
Thank you for the giveaways.
This sounds like a very interesting book.
I’m also often not very fond of food-books because of all the tiny details on how to chop a potato or whatever. This one though sounds promising and I’d love to give it a chance 🙂
Thank you for the post and terrific giveaway!!! Thank you!!!
Cool giveaways!! Ty!!
love all of susan’s books
Thanks so much for the review!
congrats H.B!