Reviewed by Donna
TITLE: Ripples In Cedarwood
SERIES: Single Father Society #2
AUTHOR: Megan Slayer
PUBLISHER: Loose Id
LENGTH: 90 Pages
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Steve Moore wasn’t planning on being a dad. He envisioned a life of teaching and professional swimming. Fast forward a year and he’s the guardian of his ten-year-old sister. He wants love and passion, but who wants to date a guy with a family?
Farin Baker believed love wasn’t in his cards–until he takes his nephew to swimming lessons. One glance at the water-slicked hunk teaching the class has him thinking about jumping into the dating pool again. He’s ready for a fresh start with a hot guy for his bed.
Will they find heat between the sheets or will the guardianship situations cool their ardor?
REVIEW:
This is book two of the Single Father Society series, but I jumped right in with this book, and can safely assure you that it wasn’t problem to have missed the first story.
Steve Moore is only twenty-four, but has spent the last few years of his life dedicated to raising his much younger sister. He’s joined the Single Father Society hoping to find some friends and support, because although he doesn’t regret devoting his time to his sister, he feels isolated and lonely. Men aren’t interested in sticking around while he raises a child, and even if they were, he’s yet to find one that he deems good enough for her.
Farin Baker knows all about raising children, he helped his brother raise his nephew. At thirty years old he feels the pull to settle down and start his own family, but at the same time he’s scared to try because opening his heart means risking heartbreak. He wants Steve from the first moment he sees him, but panics and acts like an ass, which hardly makes the best impression.
I found the push/pull between these two kind of annoying. I’m not saying that I didn’t understand why the characters were written to act that way, it made sense even. But still, it created a definite frustration for me which was aimed at the two main characters and with the story finishing at ninety pages, I didn’t really have time to get over it. It hindered my acceptance that these two developed feelings for each other so quickly.
What I did like about their relationship was the way they dove right into the sex. There was no should we/shouldn’t we, they just went for it, like most people their ages would. I appreciated that while Steve was dedicated to his sister, he wasn’t made out to be some over the top saint about it. The sex scenes were actually pretty hot, especially their first time.
My favourite aspect of this book was the Heteros for Cedarwood hate group and also Steve’s fight to get permanent custody of his sister. I would have loved to read more about both of these things.
This was a quick read with very little angst. Good if you’re in the mood for a bit of light romance, which includes a child character who doesn’t make you want to tear your hair out.
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