Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: Starting Over

SERIES: The Knight’s Club #1

AUTHOR: C. J. Baty

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 82 pages

RELEASE DATE: September 18, 2018

BLURB:

Xavier Knight was starting his life over. A new city. A new club. The past was gone, and he had everything to look forward to… except… love. That ship had sailed, never to return. He was too old to play the games or stack up the one night stands. Until, an old enemy’s son walked into his club and his heart.

Sebastian Brady was through. Through with hiding who he was. Through letting his brother officers dictate his life. And completely through, with his family telling him who he was. He turned his back on his badge and his family’s heritage in the Atlanta police force. But, he never imagined that he’d be serving drinks in a gay bar and working for the hottest silver fox he had ever seen in his life.

Xavier and Seb have a lot to learn from each other. Hopefully, their growing love will survive Xavier’s past, Seb’s family, and a host of characters with secrets of their own, who all work at the Knights Club.

REVIEW:

A new series from a new-to-me author.

This series sounded like it checked off all the things I like in a book:

• A older (50ish) Silver Fox main character ✅
• Younger man that goes after what he wants ✅
• Starting over after love turned bad ✅
• Hardened man after being let go for someone half his age ✅
• Love over fear ✅
• Relocating to escape past love gone wrong ✅

Then you add in homophobic father and brother that are macho police officers but expect their son/brother to follow the family way and forget his being gay. Seb is a disgrace to the family name in a city that their name meant something big at the Atlanta Police Department. A name that crushed prostitution and had no patience for disgusting homosexuals. When Sebastian Brady had it with the Atlanta PD, and their disgust in him, he walked into his captain’s office and turned in his badge and gun. He was done and no one, not even his domineering/controlling brother was going to change his mind. The moment that Xavier Knight realized that the extremely handsome man his friend sent over needing a job and a place to stay was a Brady all hell broke loose. The Brady’s had screwed up his life enough when he was young and used to live in Atlanta. When Zavier discovers that Seb is gay and had to endure living under Del Brady’s roof his heart softened. But how can they forge on when Seb’s Police Captain’s brother is after all that Zavier has put in to his club and Seb’s independence from his family?

I really wanted to like this book/series and would have rounded up to a 3 Hearts, however this book really, really needs a proofreader/editor to fix all the typos and mistakes that tended to pull you out the story and try and figure out what was meant at that spot. That and, even though this is a novella, and an introduction to the series, I fear that this is going to be Zavier and Seb’s only story. The next book already says it’s about Calypso, the brash and super sexy waiter. And though I am stoked to see where his story is going to go with Benedict, the gorgeous male escort in the Armani suit that lit Calypso’s Fire, I feel like Zavier and Seb’s story was rushed and had to continue to fight with the introduction of all of the Knight’s Club cast of players. I think that they needed a bit more time and growth to get where they were. I am really hoping that more of their story will come through in the future because they are a huge part of why there is a Knight’s Club. I am looking forward to the next book in this series to see how it goes because, even though the editing was rough and the men’s story seemed rushed, I liked the characters and what to know what happens next.

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