Reviewed by Kimberley

TITLE: Mr. January

SERIES: Calendar Men # 1

AUTHOR: Bailey Bradford

PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing

RELEASE DATE: January 2, 2018

BLURB:

There’s no sense in pussy-footing around when it comes to love.

Albert E. Washington is a nerd and proud of it. He’s a cool cat when he shifts, but for the most part, he’s just a guy who sometimes tapes his glasses together and enjoys quality clothing like bowties and suspenders. When his boss has him acting as an errand boy, Albert finds himself in the middle of a sexy calendar photo shoot. It’s a little too much for him to process and he ends up embarrassing himself.

Gregg is Mr. January—or he will be if the photo shoot ever gets going. Injuring his back when he trips on the set isn’t going to speed things up. The appearance of a seriously hot guy who flips the switch on Gregg’s geeky-man button makes a bad day great. Now, if Gregg can just get Albert to agree to a date, if he doesn’t scare Albert off, if Albert will just pick up on the flirtatious things Gregg says…

That’s a lot of ifs, but Gregg isn’t intimidated by them. He knows his dream man when he meets him. Now all Gregg has to do is survive the photo shoot and convince Albert to give him, and love, a chance.

REVIEW:

This was a cute story. Here we have a shy, geeky, awkward house cat shifter who falls for one of the human models on the shoot. Albert checks off every one of Gregg’s boxes in terms of what he’s attracted to. And once Gregg is able to push through the shyness and awkwardness which by the way—let me talk about that for a second. Albert’s awkwardness and shyness…the way that it was written too much. It would’ve been cute and funny if it was written with a little less…less. As it stands now, it was just a little too… extra. The tripping over things, choking, fainting, etc…it was just too much.

Aside from that, it was a cute story. The characters were okay; I liked them. Although the dialogue and some of the character’s actions was bordering on cheesy, I liked the book. I like this author, I’ve always enjoyed her work.

The book struck a good balance between being funny, sexy and sweet though. It’s a decent start and I’m looking forward to reading the rest in the series.

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