Reviewed by Danielle

TITLE: Just Between Us

AUTHOR: J.J Scott

PUBLISHER: Self published

LENGTH: 51 pages

BLURB: Some secrets are meant to stay hidden.

Ryan wants to be more than Sam’s childhood friend; he’s wanted more for a long time. Afraid of pushing Sam away, Ryan kept his fantasies hidden. As a charming clean-cut high school English teacher, Ryan has been able to date attractive women from time to time to keep up the charade.

Sam, a popular prize-winning romance author, is everything Ryan could want. His devilishly handsome face and well-built tall figure has his many fans drooling over him and not just his books. Despite the attention, Sam prefers to stay under the radar.

One night, Sam asks Ryan’s opinion on writing a gay romance novel instead of his usual heterosexual romances. Why is he asking Ryan?

Is Sam trying to get Ryan to fess up? Will Ryan’s secret end their relationship for good or change it into something new?

REVIEW:

I was asked by the author if I wanted to review this book and I accepted as I really liked the blurb, and I have to say the story starts out great.

It’s so fun to meet Ryan, seeing him in his classroom, the way he talks, it’s all very nice. When Sam is mentioned you can already sense that there is something there.

And yes it turns out to be Sam, Ryan’s best friend since childhood and his secret crush for almost as long.

When, as the blurb says, one night all bets are off, things take an unexpected turn.

And what a turn it is. Where the first part is based on meeting Ryan finding out his love for Sam, from the moment we meet Sam things change drastically.

I loved the sensual chemistry between them, the attraction and the playful set up from Sam.

When Sam indeed makes his move as he’s feeling like Ryan felt for a long time things get hot and heavy fast.

For me I have to say that is when I became a bit disappointed in this story.

The latter part of the story is just sex. I have to admit it’s hot, sexy, sensual, sweet, loving sex but still sex. The author finds words and way to mention kissing and all sexual acts in like 10 different meanings but still it all comes down to that same thing.

Where I seriously liked the beginning with the set up and the tension between the characters, I honestly think it’s a shame that the rest of the story is only based on their sexual encounter.

There isn’t even anything after that. It starts with that encounter and ends with it. I would have loved to have read more about them together and how they are going to go on from there.

This story has so much potential and the writing I really have to say is well done. The style of the author is nice although the over extensive use of everything with kissing and sex is a bit much but seeing this is a first book from this author I have to say there is definitely more to it.

For the most part I liked the book so I am giving it a small 3 stars also reminding myself that it is a first work and there is definitely potential.

And an extra note to compliment the beautiful cover!

Good luck to the author on their next work(s)

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