Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: A Bear in Paris
AUTHOR: Max Vos & K.C. Wells
PUBLISHER: Men over the Rainbow
LENGTH: 1522KB
RELEASE DATE: May 24, 2016
BLURB:
Sold for a charity profit.
It had been Rhett Beaumont’s life-long dream to visit Paris, the city of love. He had a strong connection with the city through his parents, who amazingly enough, conceived him there. Sadly, he was seeing the city alone, his heart still not healed from being broken.
When his predilection for French pastries yielded a hot chef, passions of a different sort started to heat up. Would Luc le Monnier, the French Pastry Chef, be enough to mend Rhett’s heart? What would happen when Rhett needed to return home, to Charleston?
Will it only be a summer love…or more?
AUTHOR’S NOTE:
A Bear in Paris is being published in English, French and Italian. All proceeds go to help LGBT youth. Your purchase price of only $2.99 will help young gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth get off the streets and get the help they need. You get a pretty good story for that price and help kids at the same time. I’d say that is a win-win situation. Why don’t you go, get the story, have a good read and feel good about the Karma Coins you’re collecting.
REVIEW:
I was so happy to see a new book by Max Vos and K.C. Wells working as a team. I loved this one. It isn’t super long, and truthfully…I would have loved another 100 or even 200 pages tucked in just between the last chapter and the epilogue…but that might just me being greedy! I loved these characters and just wanted it to go on and on. I did feel the transition was a little too abrupt though and really do feel it needed at least a little more.
When Rhett Beaumont of Charleston follows his mother’s advice and books a month long holiday in Paris, he goes with a heavy heart. His partner cheated on him and then left him two years ago and he is a broken man. But he vows to make the most of it and rents an apartment for a month in the gayest section of Paris.
The very first day he stops into the shop of a French Pastry Chef, named Luc le Monnier, and falls madly in love…with the pastries! Oh, and the chef is amazingly good looking too…but probably straight.
When it turns out that the straight part isn’t true though…things get hot. As usual Mr. Vos and Ms. Wells write some darned hot and spicy…and slightly kinky bedroom scenes. I think I had to fan myself at one point!
I don’t want to do any further spoilers, but I have to share my favorite part of the book with you. The scene is set inside Notre Dame Cathedral and refers to the bell towers. The speaker is a very loud mouth American woman.
“You’d think that the French would be civilized enough to have elevators. Not everyone is gonna want to walk up all those stairs,” she complained loudly.
“We don’ have to, sugah” the large man with her consoled. “Ain’t nuthin up there by some ol’ bells, an’ we got bells in Texas,” he drawled.
The reason this was my favorite set of lines was that in the 80’s I spent a week in Paris on my own as a young American sailor. On a tour through Versailles I heard a woman with a distinctly Texas accent complaining about the “disgusting lack of English translations” on the plaques throughout Versailles. I was so embarrassed to be from the same country as her that I kept my mouth shut the rest of the way through the tour. Thanks for the memory flashback folks!
As I said at the top of the review, I loved this book. It was well written, and the characters were very believable. I highly recommend this short book. I liked it a lot, and will keep it in my re-read pile! I’m going to call it a 4.5 because I wasn’t super happy about the abrupt ending, but overall it was 5.0 rated writing! I suggest you pick it up today! One final note, please see the first line of the blurb. This one was written to benefit a charity, so you are doing a good deed while reading a good book!
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