Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: A Chance at Love
AUTHOR: Silvia Violet
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 246 pages
RELEASE DATE: May 8, 2018
BLURB:
Can a confident younger man help Darren learn to let go?
On the flight back home to San Diego, Chance Emerson meets an intriguing older man. They flirt, and Chance hopes for more, but the man never calls. Months later, they meet again at a charity auction. Chance decides this time he isn’t walking away.
Darren Walsh can’t stop thinking about the gorgeous grad student who almost had him joining the mile-high club. When Chance suggests they hook up, Darren says the only thing he can—yes.
From their first moments together, Chance and Darren know there’s more between them than lust, but their differences in age and income make a real relationship challenging. They decide to keep things secret, yet as they learn more about each other, Darren realizes he wants something real and open. To have that, he’ll need to convince Chance that he has a place in Darren’s world, and Darren will have to take some risks of his own.
REVIEW:
I really enjoyed this and read straight through in one sitting!
Darren is a successful lawyer turned philanthropist who runs a huge family trust. On a plane trip back from Texas a young man sits next to him in first class dressed in pajama pants carrying a barrel of cheese balls. Chance is heading back to school in San Diego where he is attending a PhD program. After a somewhat bumpy beginning they start to get to know each other and Darren is surprised how much he is opening himself up to the likable young man. But can a 40 year-old man that manages and gives out hundreds of millions of dollars in donations find something in common with a 23 year old enthusiastic college kid studying and doing research in Epigenetic’s?
I really like both of these men from the start. However the young man in the pajamas on the plane just doesn’t click with the rest of Chance. I just couldn’t see him boarding a plane dressed like that after I got to know him. Jeans and cowboy boots yes but just not quite that casually dressed. As for the mile-high club? That was a bit misleading. But the book truly took off for me when they were at the lgbt center fundraiser. These two were attracted to each other like a magnet is to metal. I loved seeing Chance getting Darren to release his tight control on himself and just experience the moment. Darren may have been older and richer but I really saw Chance as just as mature and controlled. The age thing seemed so insignificant until the big Donor’s Dinner. Some of those people were arrogant jerks but that’s not uncommon with the über rich.
The sex scenes were fun and intriguing. I loved seeing Chance push Darren to be more daring and seek what he truly wanted/needed. I did get a bit tired of each of these men second guessing when the other would have enough and bail. Even after they established that they were boyfriends in a committed monogamous relationship.
The part I did have a lot of trouble with was the abrupt ending. It felt like a HFN instead of knowing it was a HEA ending. In shorter stories I have come to almost expect this type of ending but this was a full length novel. An epilogue would, at the very least, have been much appreciated.
All in all, I really liked this book but felt that the ending fell short of the potential.
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