Reviewed by Roberta
TITLE: Finding Home
SERIES: The Dropping Anchor Series # 2
AUTHOR: Bru Baker
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 256 pages
BLURB:
Dropping Anchor: Book Two
When an inheritance fell in Ian Mackay’s lap, he fled the high-pressure banking industry and didn’t look back. Since then, he’s spent four years living carefree on the island of Tortola, his life a series of hookups and hanging out with friends.
After his best friend moves to Seattle and gets married, Ian finds himself lost. His unapologetic existence doesn’t hold the same appeal, and he wonders if he’s throwing his life away. After visiting Niall in Seattle, Ian decides to stay, but that means taking his life off hold and finding a real job. Meeting Luke Keys, who is about as far from a player as possible, isn’t the plan but might be just what Ian needs. Luke and his values intrigue Ian, and he pursues Luke ruthlessly until Luke agrees to a date.
Their courtship sweeps Ian off his feet, and when the relationship gets complicated, Ian has the chance to cut and run. Habits born from years of being on his own are hard to shake, and self-proclaimed playboy Ian must decide if love is worth fighting for.
REVIEW:
What a sweet, romantic story to read. I was really thrilled to read a mostly angst-free story.
Ian Mackay is this wonderfully Scottish playboy who lives on the island of Tortola. Ian has been living the island life for 5 years and lately it’s not the same. Something is missing in his life and he’s just so unsatisfied. Ian’s youth wasn’t what you’d particularly happy. He’s the product of an wonderful professor mother and an alcoholic father. He doesn’t believe in marriage as he watched his parent’s marriage fall apart. Ian is this really sweet, wonderful, funny guy who at times made me laugh out loud and at others just want to hug him. Ian’s ability to take care of those around him, was sweet to watch. To see that he did in fact have a family of his own, and to watch him realize it, was really kinda cool.
Luke Keys is this great character. He’s this guy who has so many responsibilities that they are coming out of his pores. He’s a yoga instructor, bartender and works at a brewery. Luke is also a voracious reader. That’s my FAVORITE part of Luke’s character. Luke is really hard to pin down as he’s so busy and yet, there’s another secret from Ian that he kept for awhile. Luke has guardianship of his nephew, Leo. Luke feels that as he didn’t go to college and he does so much and also takes care of Leo that he’s not as well educated as Ian, and that is where he’s wrong IMHO. Luke is so talented and smart and giving and so very loyal. Leo is his world and EVERYTHING that he does, is to make sure that Leo is well provided for and taken care of. He’s got a really great relationship with his mother and Leo and adding someone new is scary for him, but he’s willing to try it, however, it’s at a slower pace that works for him.
This book was such a sweet and very tender love story. It’s the story a man who doesn’t know until it happens that he’s capable of such love for another. That even though he shows his friends that he cares, he’s truly unaware of how it touches those in his life. To find that one special person who truly completes him, makes him a bit scared, however, I love that Ian proved not only to himself, but to Luke that he’ll stand and fight for what he wants. Watching Ian grow as a person was truly a wonderful gift and I enjoyed it a lot. Ian had this wonderful sense of humor that kept me giggling and truly enjoying him.
I have to say that this book was really about the growing of Ian and for Luke a bit. They each had to learn that they can’t do everything themselves. That there is always help available and they just needed to avail themselves to it.
This book did have some sexy times in it, however, it wasn’t very explicit, the times that the sex was on screen. More often than not, it was more fade to black. I’m normally a big fan of some really hot, explicit manlove, but for this story it truly worked out better this way and I NEVER thought I’d say those words. But it just added to the sweetness of this story.
I didn’t read the first book in the series and I didn’t feel that I missed out. There was enough of the characters in the story as well as a bit of backstory when it came up to truly be able to follow what was in the first book and not feel lost.
I will say that I really enjoyed this story. I liked this was such a sweet love story. There wasn’t truly much angst in it and that made this a wonderful read.
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I’m buying!