Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Red, White & Blew

SERIES: Welcome to Morningwood Omegaverse

AUTHOR: Kiki Burrelli

PUBLISHER: self-published

LENGTH: 162 pages

RELEASE DATE: June 21, 2019

BLURB:

Professor. Single dad. His father’s former best friend…

There is no end to how off-limits Thatcher should be to Dylan. But Dylan is away from home for the first time. An artist at heart, he’s struggling at the normie law school where he’s desperately trying to stand in his father’s footsteps. He’s too gentle, too meek. The members of his family have become lawyers and protected Morningwood—the secretive shifter only community—for generations. Though Dylan is lonely, he can’t tell his dad about the new friend he’s found in Thatcher. His dad would only order Dylan to stay away, and Dylan can’t give Thatcher up. Not just yet.

Thatcher has his hands full as a newly single father. The single part isn’t new, but the father part is. Elijah was ten when services dropped him on Thatcher’s door and in the months since he’s scrambled to change his life from that of a bachelor to a responsible father. But he struggles to connect with his young son. The smartest thing he could do would be to put a stop to the feelings he has for Dylan. While Elijah loves spending time with him and when the three of them are together, it feels like they are a family, Dylan is a student. If the university doesn’t discover their relationship Dylan’s overbearing dad will. He never got over the way Thatcher left Morningwood over a decade ago and if he ever found out Thatcher was interested in his son, he’d go ballistic.

As their bond deepens and the end of term looms ahead, Dylan’s running out of time. The annual Morningwood 4th of July camp-out is on the horizon, yet another tradition Dylan has with his father and he realizes he will have to make a choice between his dad and the town he loves, or his mate and the family that accepts him just the way he is.

Red, White & Blew is the sixth book in the Welcome to Morningwood series, it features an age gap romance with student/teacher themes (that’s a lucky desk). But, it’s a Morningwood story, so there is no question about the HEA, or the steamy, funny bits in between!

REVIEW:

OH do I love Dylan!! This was such a good book. Sweet, shy Dylan who was miserable in law school finally found his backbone and his voice and it was a beautiful thing. I loved this story.

Dylan was more or less a doormat, he felt like. His roommate was a dick who took advantage of him. His father wouldn’t back off and let him breathe. And he was pressured into going into law, which he didn’t want to do. While studying late one night at the library, he runs across a gorgeous older man who immediately sniffed him as he entered his presence. Dylan knew immediately it was another shifter but was so shocked because he was 4 hours away from Morningwood and wasn’t expecting another shifter. As they begin to talk in the library and get to know each other, they realized they were locked in, which sent Dylan in a panic being claustrophobic. Thatcher calmed him down and they began to speak some more. And unfortunately, Thatcher learned who Dylan really was. The son of his ex-best friend. And this was not going to go well. He tried to stay away from Dylan but the pull was too strong and pretty soon their scents were mingling. When Grant, Dylan’s father, came for a surprise visit and caught them, it was not a pretty picture. But to keep things calm, Thatcher walked away for the moment. And Grant was not happy at Dylan defending him. But when it came time for them to go to Morningwood for the 4th of July, it all came to a head. The truth starts flying out in a shouting match in front of the town and ended with Grant with a broken nose by Thatcher. Now Dylan has to figure out how to keep his mate and his father and keep the peace. But it’s not going to be easy.

Dylan grew up so much in this book. I was so proud of him. He went from the shy, naive young man, to one with a steel set of balls and mind and a voice to back them up. He learned to start speaking for himself when all this stuff came to a head. He was miserable and tired of trying to live up to expectations that he would never live up to. He also wasn’t giving up his mate. So he finally put his foot down. And I loved it. Just because he’s an omega doesn’t mean he gets to have his life dictated or treated like crap and he stood up for himself. Even did a little sneaky revenge which was funny as hell.

I love this series. It has been so so good. And I hope there will be more coming. I love this little town.

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