Reviewed by Vicki

TITLE: Andy, Go-Go Boy

SERIES: Working Boys #2

AUTHOR: J.P Barnaby

PUBLISHER: Wilde City Press

LENGTH: 14,000 words

RATING:

BLURB:

Andy Finnegan is a six foot three brown-haired, blue-eyed, Mack f*cking truck. A former marine who spends his nights dancing for your entertainment, he has a dark side hiding beneath the beautiful veneer.

Sweet little Stefan is awestruck by the big, gorgeous dancer with the rock hard abs and the lonely eyes. Determined to see what lurks behind the perfect surface, he gets a little more than he bargained for.

REVIEW:

Ohhh… Andy is a naughty boy at the gym! What a great start to a book. Hot sauna sex. Andy is beautiful,  strong, athletic and confident! A former Marine, he seems to be floundering a bit looking for something to focus on. He starts out feeling very superficial, worrying about his looks, dancing in a gay club, and hoping to go in to porn. But underneath that is a damaged, scared man. Having served eight years as a Marine, he’s seen things no one should see, and survived to live with his memories.

His luck is about to change one night at the club he dances in, but not in the way he thinks. He’s hoping to be seen by the owner of a porn studio, and get his big break. Fate steps in, he sees Stefan, and that is all she wrote!

So this is a very good story, but waaaay to short! Just about the time I was getting in to Andy, and thinking he wasn’t the superficial jerk he appeared to be at the beginning, it’s over. We don’t get to know Stefan at all, other than that he has been stalking Andy for a month, he’s a student, and he’s small but fit. I liked what we did get, he seemed very sweet, but it was hard to really get in to him with so little to go on. They both seem like potentially really good characters, and I wanted more about them. We do get to know Andy and his issues, JP writes damaged characters so well, and Andy is certainly damaged.

The writing is great, as I would expect from a book written by JP, she has truly become one of my favorite authors in the genre. Strong characters, good plots, and hot sex. I mostly saw that here, at least with Andy, he is strong and damaged, the plot was basic but good, and the bit of sex was very yummy. I’d give this book more stars, but after recently rereading Aaron and then Spencer, which were truly five star books, I’m going to go with four stars here. Not because anything was wrong with it, I liked it very much, but it didn’t have the depth I’m used to seeing from JP. It was a very good book, in what will likely be a great series of books.

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