Book of the Week Winners!
Here are the winners of this week’s Book of the Week Poll.
Both will go through to the Book of the Month Poll
FIRST PLACE:
Teddy and His Bear (Oh My!#1) Andi James, Lila Wilde
Reviewed by Kimberley
TITLE: Teddy and His Bear
SERIES: Oh My # 1
AUTHOR: Andi James, Lila Wilde
PUBLISHER: Self Publishing
LENGTH: 315 pages
RELEASE DATE: October 22, 2018
BLURB:
At twenty-four, Teddy should be used to feeling abandoned and unwanted. After all, he’s been dealing with it most of his life. But a recent breakup takes him completely by surprise and now he’s on his own again. Nursing new and old hurts, he leans on his makeshift family and finds solace in a growing and unexpected friendship with an older man.
Forty-two-year-old Barrett has successfully ignored his biggest need for years. His last boy left him questioning everything he knew, and he is determined to lead a vanilla life, no matter how much his friends try to convince him to be true to himself. When he learns his favorite barista needs a new place to stay, he offers a solution that leads to spending more time with the younger man.
A change in circumstances brings both men together and their buried feelings to light. Teddy knows he’s attracted to Barrett but isn’t sure if he’s ready to risk his heart again, and Barrett is losing the struggle against his dominant nature. Will learning Barrett’s sexy secret be too much for Teddy, or is it just the thing he never knew he needed?
SECOND PLACE:
Oz (Finding Home #1) by Lily Morton
Reviewed by Taylin
TITLE: Oz
SERIES: Finding Home #1
AUTHOR: Lily Morton
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 287 Pages
RELEASE DATE: November 20, 2018
BLURB:
What happens when temporary becomes forever?
Oz Gallagher does not do relationships well. Bored and jobless after another disastrous hook up, he decides to leave London for a temporary job in the wilds of Cornwall. Surely managing a stately home on a country estate will be easier than navigating the detritus of his relationships at home. Six months there will alleviate a bit of his wanderlust and then he can come back to London as footloose and fancy free as the day he left it.
However, when he gets there he finds a house in danger of crumbling to the ground and a man who is completely unlike anyone he’s ever met. An earl belonging to a family whose roots go back hundreds of years, Silas is the living embodiment of duty and sacrifice. Two things that Oz has never wanted. He’s also warm and funny and he draws Oz to him like a magnet.
Oz banks on the fact that they’re from two very different worlds to stop himself falling for Silas. But what will he do when he realises that these differences are actually part of the pull to one another? Will falling in love be enough to make him stop moving at last and realise that he’s finally home?