Reviewed by Amber
TITLE: Clique
SERIES: Heartsville
AUTHOR: Jayden Brooks
PUBLISHER: Self Pub
LENGTH: 78 pages
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Adam Locke’s youthful looks aren’t the blessing everyone seems to think. At twenty-eight, he’s a successful photographer with his own studio and respected by his peers—but that doesn’t seem to matter to the men who catch his eye. Instead, he’s brushed aside like an underage twink with a daddy fetish.
When a hot, bearded stranger stops him from accidentally walking into traffic, Adam looks up and finds the man of his dreams. Unfortunately, his first meeting with Brandon ends with him being dismissed as a kid. Again. Adam can’t help his annoyance. He also can’t help staring (and drooling) whenever he spots Brandon walking through the neighborhood with a different dog.
He watches from afar, wondering about Brandon’s story—until the day he’s dared to take another chance. It’s just the push Adam needs, and finally, he catches Brandon’s interest. Now if only he could figure out the key to getting taciturn Brandon to open up and let Adam in. But Adam knows sometimes all it takes is a little patience for the last piece to click into place.
REVIEW:
The best thing about this story for me was the pets!!!! I love, love, love pets in my stories and this one had several and they all were adorable!! The humans were cute too but the pets won me over especially precious Lulu.
We first met Adam in Bookmarked. He’s a photographer and owner of Clique a photography studio that was handed down to him from his late aunt. Adam’s problem however is that men don’t take him seriously due to the fact that he looks significantly younger than he is. So, it’s no surprise when he meets Brandon, he’s immediately blown off as a kid.
Brandon is overly secretive. I didn’t really get why. At first I thought it was going to turn out that he may have been military or there was another factor that caused him to be the way he was. I don’t know if that was the reason but I never warmed up to him. So, in that sense it was really had for me to feel the connection between them. So I struggled with that a bit.
This was a cute addition to this collection.
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