Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Kiss Me Tomorrow
SERIES: Valentine’s Inc. #8
AUTHOR: Ashe Winters
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 230 pages
RELEASE DATE: February 7, 2019
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Malcolm
My friends are tired of my moping after my ex packed his bags and took off a year ago. I thought I was in love, he obviously wasn’t. In order to get them off my back, I agree to one Valentine’s date that they’ll set up using the company Valentine’s Inc., which two of my friends run. What I don’t expect is the fun, flirty date with my wet dream—a young Johnny Depp lookalike.
Levi
To make ends meet, I work for Valentine’s Inc doing what I did to survive on the streets… charm the pants off men. Except, with Valentine’s Inc, the clients have to keep their pants on, which means I only have to do the charming part. It’s an easy job until I find myself on a date where the tables are turned, and I’m charmed instead. Too bad it’s against company rules to get physical with a client. For once, I wouldn’t mind exploring this crazy spark between us for something more. Then again, there’s always tomorrow… when I’m off the clock.
Just when Levi thinks things might be perfect between them, a run-in with an old friend reveals his difficult past to Malcolm before Levi is ready. Will Malcolm accept it and fully ignite the spark between them? Or will their whirlwind relationship come to a crashing halt?
REVIEW:
Each book in this series has brought something a little different to the table and I’ve really liked that. This one deals with some heavy issues, and I really enjoyed it. I just had one thing that really stood out to me as….not quite good. And this is a personal thing, so you guys may read it and get something totally different. But for Mal and the depression he was dealing with, it felt blown over. Or like a magic thing and he was all better. For someone like me who deals with severe depression, I had a hard time with that. His friend basically came in, after a year of watching him spiralling worse out of control, finally decided to pull the covers off of him, tells him he stinks and has no coffee and then Mal begrudgingly got up and was more or less okay. Now it wasn’t exactly like that, but pretty close and that’s how it read for me. It was touched on a bit later on in the book but not much and that not how it really goes. But again, my own personal thing. Other than that really, I liked the chemistry they had and the way Mal took care with Levi. He knew something was up in Levi’s life but he didn’t push. He let Levi come to terms and share in his own time. Sex wasn’t rushed. It was intimate. And that made the relationship all the better. I kind of wished there was a little more angst with the reveal of Levi’s past, but again, that’s just a personal thing.
For Mal, nursing depression, it was time to try to move on. And his friends decided it would be with a ‘date’. Not necessarily a date date, but a plus one for a friend’s party. Getting groomed was a priority and when he met Levi to get his hair cut, he felt like he met the man of his dreams. They flirted a bit, strained with sexual tension, but went their separate ways after his hair was done. Little did they know that Levi was Mal’s ‘date’. Paying penance for a date gone wrong, Valentine’s Inc. head guys, and Mal’s friends, set Levi up with Mal as ‘punishment’. What no one realized is they already ‘knew’ each other and quickly hit it off, setting up dates on their own later on. The chemistry makes things rough sometimes, but they take things slow. Levi needed the time. And just when they felt like they had reached a turning point in their relationship, Levi’s past is revealed in a surprising way. Now they have to decide if Mal is ok with it all and if Levi is ready to really reveal all and both move on together or just call it quits and move on.
For Mal, it was a no brainer and I love that. He knew something was up with Levi from the start. He respected Levi and kept things slow. Going at Levi’s pace. He let Levi open up in his own time. He tried to help pull him out of his shell a bit. He didn’t pressure him about his job with Valentine’s Inc. He was a perfect fit for Levi. And Levi was good for Mal. He made Mal happy like he had never really been. He made Mal feel needed and wanted. They both had things the other needed. They just had to get past the past. And that’s never easy. But then, life never is.
Another good book in this series. It’s been a really good one. I hope you all have enjoyed them and will read til the end.
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Great review!
And agreed–sometimes I think authors slap the “depression” label on an MC when, if an MC is going to get over it so quickly, it would be more apropos to use the term “wallowing” or extended wallowing. Wallowing in grief/sadness is WAY different than actual, clinical depression (which is a genetic trait handed down via DNA and will be a life-long struggle to control).
** And I’m not slamming the authors who do this. Quite possibly, the ones who label the wallowing as depression do not realize the difference.
Thank you! and thank you for your comments 🙂