Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Snow Job
SERIES: Snowed In – Valentine’s Inc #5
AUTHOR: Beth Bolden
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 219 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 28, 2020
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There’s nobody Micah hates more than his ex-stepbrother, Jake. And nobody he wants quite as desperately. For nine long years, Micah has begrudgingly tried to move on. How could they ever be together when Jake never spends more than a handful of days in the same country, and never more than one night with the same person?
When his job sends Micah to a remote mountain cabin on snowy Mount Hood, a misunderstanding strands Jake there at the same time. Was it actually coincidence or in fact premeditated? Either way, Micah will need to put his resentment—and his longing—aside for long enough to survive the elements that might be conspiring to kill them.
As the snow levels rise, and their situation grows more dire, Micah and Jake might finally be forced to use the heat between them to survive.
Snow Job is a full length novel and book 5 of the Snowed In Valentine’s Inc. series. It can be read as a standalone.
REVIEW:
As much as I love Beth’s books, this one really wasn’t for me. It’s not the writing or anything like that, I’m just not a big fan of the whole step-brother/ex step-brother trope. And that’s my own personal reason. As always, Beth’s writing is good. But I also had a hard time with the guys in general. The two MCs, ex step-brothers, just really got on my nerves a lot lol.
From the time Jake and Micah met, as their parents were getting married, they seemed to have to one up each other. For Micah, it was a defense mechanism, in order to hide that he secretly lusted after Jake. For Jake, he liked Micah himself, but was firmly keeping Micah in the kid category. Even when their parents divorced, their business remained joined. Micah went into the business, Jake had to tour the world, doing a blog to get away. For years and years, they kept at each other. Constantly doing things to tick the other off or something. Until their parents became sneaky and forced them in a cabin to at least try to talk. What no one planned was the blizzard or how the feelings came out. And once they could leave, Micah ran this time. And Jake has decided if he wants to keep Micah, he’s going to have to do something to make Micah really face how he feels. And lay his cards on the table as well.
These two. Shew. I almost wanted to shake them both. For being adults, they still acted so much like children. It was driving me nuts. I know for the both of them, it was a reaction against the other. Neither wanted to admit they liked the other. For Micah, he never wanted to admit it because he felt like Jake looked at him as an inferior because of how smart he was and that Jake got to travel the world. For Jake, it was almost the same. He felt like Micah looked down on him because he could barely finish a year of college before leaving. And Jake also like knowing he could rile Micah up. Which was an extra dig. When they actually decided to talk, and things went further, I could understand why Micah wanted and did run. Jake had the ability to destroy him with a comment or something and Micah wouldn’t be able to handle it.
It’s hard when you care about someone and you don’t know how they feel. Or if the only feeling you’ve ever known from them is animosity. It makes things difficult. But communication is what has to happen in order for anything to change. And actually listening.
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