Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Hard Lessons
AUTHOR: Samuel King
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 70 pages
RELEASE DATE: October 1, 2019
BLURB:
When recently single Jake heads off to rural Somerset for a job interview as a reading teacher, he’s expecting his pupil to be a child, but it’s the handsome and charismatic property dealer Nathan Foley who needs his help. Their relationship quickly becomes sexual, and Jake worries he is rushing into another relationship too fast. And, as the heat between them intensifies, Jake begins to question Nathan’s motives.
Adding to the confusion is Nathan’s bitter older sister, Alice, who seems to have taken an instant dislike to Jake, as well as a strange man who Jake spots wandering around the grounds of the house.
What is Alice’s problem? Who is the handsome stranger? And are Nathan Foley’s feelings entirely genuine? Perhaps Jake is the one who is about to learn a hard lesson.
REVIEW:
I wasn’t sure what to think about this book at first, but then I started to get a bit intrigued. I was irritated at what one of the MCs seems to be up to, because it just seemed like he was full of lies. But what we find out is so much worse.
Jake had just broken up with his boyfriend. Unfortunately, he was still stuck with living with the punk until he could get enough money to find another place. A job seems to come just in time to get him away from the mess that is his ex. But he walks from one mess into another. At first, he thinks it’s just mutual attraction, and plenty of it. But he soon sees his newly formed relationship walking out of a cottage with another man. A man that is his ex, that supposedly screwed him over. And then Jake finds out he’s just been played all along. And it’s time for him to go. But Nathan doesn’t want him to go and does all he can to get to Jake. But will it work and will it be enough or is Jake completely done?
Man, I feel for Jake. Going from one bad relationship to finding out you’re being used in another. And finding men with his ex and newly formed, whatever he is, is just too much. I don’t blame him a bit for wanting to run. And doing so. No matter the reasoning behind it, and it’s a doozy, he still didn’t deserve to be treated like crap or used the way he was. So I was torn with wanting to smack Nathan and the ex and for actually feeling a bit sorry Nathan for what he had been put through.
It’s kind of a strange story. But alright. You will find yourself caught up in the middle of a mess and a deranged person. But, like I said, not too bad.
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