Reviewed by Cindy
TITLE: Loose Lips and Relationships
SERIES: Flaming MO, Book 1
AUTHOR: AJ Rose and Kate Aaron
PUBLISHER: Self-published
LENGTH: 298 Pages
RELEASE DATE: February 25, 2019
BLURB:
Flaming, Missouri is the perfect place for police officer Marc Warren to heal his battered heart after a broken marriage. The tourist town is an easy beat and he finds sanctuary in his beautiful cabin on the Lake of the Ozarks. So when Grant “Good Time” Taylor shows interest, Marc is in no hurry to let Flaming’s resident bad boy rock his boat.
Grant has no interest in dating locals. Tourists are plentiful and don’t want more than he’s willing to give. But a bar bet turns personal when Marc hands him a humiliating public rejection. If Grant wants to get under the mysterious officer’s skin, he’ll have to offer more than a temporary port.
The small town rumor mill gets a jumpstart as Marc and Grant realize what they’ve been missing all along—each other. But not everyone is happy for them. Someone will stop at nothing to sink the budding relationship. Can Marc and Grant overcome their fears to fight for each other, or is their happiness destined to drown?
Award winning authors AJ Rose and Kate Aaron have teamed up to welcome you to Flaming, MO, a cozy thriller series with feel-good themes, charismatic characters, and a small town with a big heart.
REVIEW:
There’s a lot to like about this story. Grant Taylor is not what he seems to be. Instead of the selfish, easy goof that Marc Warren was expecting, Grant turns out to be a sweet, funny and kind individual, even if he doesn’t do relationships…not that Marc is interested in a relationship…he’s had enough of those.
I loved both guys right from the very beginning. It’s easy to fall for them and I really adore the friends and family they’ve surrounded themselves with, with one notable exception. I’m not going to tell you who it is, but trust me when I say, you’re going to want to punch them in the mouth.
Flaming MO is a small town with an open heart. I wish more places could really be as welcoming to the LGTBQ community as this fictional community. The author does a fantastic job of showing us where Marc and Grant live and I have to say, I’d sure like to visit. It wasn’t hard for me to picture the little town, and as someone who lives in a small place, I can attest to the reality of the gossip mills that seem to spread rumors faster than Fox News.
The angst in this story comes from the uncertainty that lurks in both men. They are harder on themselves than anyone else is, with the exception of the person who tries so hard to break them up. It’s the one person who should always have Marc’s back, and they don’t redeem themselves in any way throughout the story.
AJ Rose and Kate Aaron are not new authors for me. Both have written amazing stories in the past and both have wonderful voices in their fiction that stands out as some of the most interesting I have ever read. I really enjoyed the fact that we got to see from both men’s point of view and the authors did this in the perfect way so I was never confused as to whose head I was in.
I had no problems getting swept up in Marc and Grant’s adventures and once I got started, I couldn’t put it down. (This causes problems when I have to go to work though.)
This is a story about finding yourself and working through your past so you can find your future and it resonated with me on a personal level as well. I have no problems recommending this story to anyone who loves a good romance.
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