Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Perfect
SERIES: Soulmates #4
AUTHOR: Felice Stevens
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 253 pages
RELEASE DATE: February 23, 2018
BLURB:
Despite multiple degrees and business success, in his heart Jeremy Strauss feels he’s never measured up. While he hasn’t lacked for men or women to share his bed, Jeremy has yet to find someone who sees beyond his muscles and perfect smile. Taking it slow with a lover isn’t how he operates, but something about the shy accountant he rescues in a snowstorm makes him want this time to be different. So what if Blake drops little comments here and there about Jeremy’s pretty face? Their relationship is perfect.
Or is it?
Lonely most of his life, Blake Myers is as careful with his heart as he is with a balance sheet. The last thing he expects is for a man like Jeremy to fall for him, and he can’t help but wait for the bubble to burst on their relationship. When the stress of a professional crisis turns personal, Blake sees the perfect relationship he and Jeremy have built start to crumble. Caught in an ever-tightening web of lies, rather than wait for Jeremy to leave him, Blake breaks it off and vanishes.
Perfection is an illusion.
Jeremy doesn’t know which way to turn and for the first time in his life, he’s lost and uncertain. Believing he’s no longer the man Jeremy needs, Blake sinks deeper into despair. Both men struggle with secrets, lies, and hurtful memories until they are forced to look inside their hearts and learn the truth—that love is perfectly imperfect.
REVIEW:
You know what is wrong with the word “perfect”…there is no such thing or person.
Jeremy and Blake bump into each other in a snow storm one night. Jeremy takes Blake back to his place for a drink to warm up. Blake can’t believe he is doing this but he follows the gorgeous hunk back to his place. Blake also can’t believe that the muscle bound god is into him…a mousy accountant. Jeremy can’t believe the shy but incredibly gorgeous executive he met could possibly be into him. What will happen if they take their blinders off of perfection.
Okay, who the heck meets a man in the middle of a snow storm and follows him up to his place for a warm cup of anything? I mean these guys are supposedly college educated. One, Blake, is a CPA at a prestigious accounting firm and the other, Jeremy, has two degrees, including a MBA! You don’t do that in a small town in the Midwest let alone in the night in New York!
Even though that worked out these two guys just bugged me the whole time. Each kept thinking how “perfect” the other was but couldn’t see that they were a honest-to-goodness catch also. I know that Jeremy’s mom and Blake’s dad did a number on each of them to put their confidence in the gutter but it got to be too much.
I did like when each of the guys finally figured out what was best for themselves professionally. The fact that neither just settled but found what would work for them.
It says that this is part of a series, which I didn’t realize when I chose it, but that it could be read as a standalone. I don’t know if that was why I didn’t connect or not.
It’s not that I hated the book but that it just got to repetitive and whiny. Too many shiny blue eyes and I’m not good enough. And I hated the lying! I guess this just wasn’t the book for me.
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