Book Review: Hot Property by Lou Watton

Reviewed by Becca

 

TITLE: Hot Property

AUTHOR: Lou Watton

PUBLISHER: self-published

LENGTH: 206 pages

RELEASE DATE: November 19, 2018

BLURB:

Paul is a successful barrister living in a trendy area of London. Once he comes back home from work and finds a dashing, topless stranger with a tool belt around his hips. Only gradually he remembers that he has started building works on his property. He invites the stranger to have a glass of wine with him and… the rest is history? Yes, but not of the kind he could have imagined in his wildest dreams. The stranger turns out to be a tad more mysterious than he can handle. In a matter of days he finds himself embroiled in a passionate affair and a dangerous game where he doesn’t make the rules. If only he could run… If only there was anything he wouldn’t do for James… 

REVIEW:

This was a strange book for me and really didn’t get much better til the very end. I’m still kind of baffled over some of it.

Basically, Paul was having his home redone with renovations. He comes home one evening to find a very hot construction worker and ends up asking him to stay for wine. Which leads to much more. But after one night, Paul thinks he’s in love, even though they barely know each other’s names. And that is first names only. James ends up having to leave and Paul is distraught when he’s not working on the house the next day. I feel like it was a soap opera or a teenage drama. The amount of anguish he was going through after James being gone after one night of sex. I admit, I rolled my eyes. And this continued back and forth. James would be there one night and then disappear for a day or two. And what really got me is the fact that if he is so much in love with James, why did he go searching for someone on Grindr? Yeah, he Grindr hookup became his friend anyway, but still. Just weird to me. Then he was following James around trying to find clues to what was going on like a stalker and ended up being busted by James himself. He broke into the man’s house and James wasn’t mad. Really???? The Paul ends up finding out what’s really going on and someone is trying to kill James and his father tried to kill him and he’s gotten shot and caught in the middle and there’s just a whole lot more that makes this book really odd.

I just don’t know what else to say. It was a strange book to me. Very strange. But give it a try and see what you think.

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