Reviewed by Louisa
TITLE: Winning Love’s Lottery
SERIES: Kiwi Guys #1
AUTHOR: Zoe Piper
PUBLISHER: Apollo8 Publishing
LENGTH: 303 pages
RELEASE DATE: 6th February 2018
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An average Kiwi guy, Jase MacKenzie wasn’t born rich, and winning the lottery at eighteen didn’t change the way he looked at the world. In fact, he never even told his family and friends he was a sudden millionaire.
When Kyle Foster moves to Auckland to head a new business venture for his father, he’s wary of love. His past is full of heartache thanks to a gold-digging, cheating ex. All he wants to do is make his family proud and forget about love.
Only, working with Jase makes that impossible. Kyle is immediately drawn to Jase, but they need boundaries. Can Kyle learn to trust again and how will he react when he finds out Jase has secrets? About a million of them.
REVIEW:
Winning Love’s Lottery by Zoe Piper was an interesting story. It is very obviously set in New Zealand. But I think sometimes the author has forgotten that not everyone is from Auckland or indeed from the land of the long white cloud. The use of the term Kiwi is prevalent throughout the book and while it didn’t bother me as an Aussie, I know its not a commonly known term overseas. For those wondering, a Kiwi is someone from New Zealand.
Jase MacKenzie has won the lottery and not told anyone. He is about to turn 30 when his self-imposed locked trust is opened up for his use. Kyle Foster has run from Texas and a bad relationship to run his father’s first international office. Together they were a good couple. They was no huge excitement for me. But the sex scenes were pretty good.
My biggest issue was that Kyle is meant to be from Texas and yet he doesn’t talk like it. He has no language differences from anyone else except for the use of the words ma’am and darlin’. The pair just didn’t have any of the fun you would expect from two men who come from such different places. It also takes a really long time to get to the end. And for the most part the book is well written. It does have a couple of issues of new authors (over describing etc.).
All of this being said, the ending is great. Once Jase tells people about his lottery win, things happen quickly and its really good reading. I enjoyed this book and would happily read number 2 in the Kiwi Boys series.
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