Review by Wency

TITLE: Nothing Special

AUTHOR: A. E. Via

PUBLISHER: Amira press Publishing

LENGTH: 255 Pages

BLURB:

Detective Cashel ‘Cash’ Godfrey is big, tattooed and angry so people typically keep their distance. He’s fresh out of the police academy, however, no one is looking to partner with the six foot four beast with a huge chip on his shoulder and an inability to trust. When Cash scans the orientation room he wasn’t expecting to find sexy hazel eyes locked onto him. Eyes of the handsome Detective Leonidis ‘Leo’ Day.

Leo is charming, witty, hilariously sarcastic and the only one that can make Cash smile. He’s proud, out and one bad-ass detective.​

Together Cash and Leo become the most revered and successful narcotics detectives Atlanta’s ever seen. Able to communicate and understand each other, without even having to voice it, they quickly climb up the promotional ranks.

When Cash saves Leo’s life in a raid that turns deadly, Leo begins to see something in the big man that no one else does…something special. But Leo fears he’ll never break through the impenetrable wall that protects Cash’s heart.

Nothing Special takes the reader through various emotions throughout the richly fulfilling plot that’s full of erotic gay romance, heartache, passion, trials and tribulations, police action scenes, and an intriguing twist that comes to an amazing ending that’s impossible to see coming.

REVIEW:

Almost everyone in goodreads seem to really love this book so this will be a bit hard or me rating this book and writing this review. So I’m going to go put my protective armor on. Fair warning, there are probably a lot of spoilers.

So the summary goes like this: four years of partnership in the force, one day God had a faceoff with his estrange family, he got drunk, drunk texted Day, Day track him down through an application they’ve downloaded on their phones, and then Day realized he love God. Then the love story begun.

It was an okay read for me. I enjoyed some of the scenes, yes. But that’s it. It is not something I’ll do my happy dance on while reading it. The story is common for me. There’s nothing really special (no pun intended). It was far from what I was expecting when first read the blurb.

And I think the blurb is a bit misleading for me. It says that:

“When Cash saves Leo’s life in a raid that turns deadly, Leo begins to see something in the big man that no one else does…something special. But Leo fears he’ll never break through the impenetrable wall that protects Cash’s heart.”

Though before that they’ve been having monkey sex. I admit. The sex is really steamy.

The plot is a bit of a mess for me. There are scenes when I really want to eye roll. Like two detective kissing in the middle of the precinct? Really? Who would do that even if you are out and proud? I am okay with endearments but not to the point that it became too saccharine for my taste.

Then there’s the “thing on the end”. When I first saw this on GR there’s no ménage tag so I haven’t really expected what happened near the end. Would I read this knowing that there will be a ménage scene? No. I am such a prude when it comes to that. What’s with couple inviting other couple to their bed? A little warning next time. Though if you are into that, the sex is hot!

I’m not a person who discourages other people about a book I did not liked so much. So if you love two hot detectives doing steamy sex, really sweet story and having a ménage scene, you might enjoy this one better than I did.

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