Reviewed by Kimberley

TITLE:  Valentine’s Day Blues

SERIES: A Little Bit Cupid # 1

AUTHOR: J.P. Bowie

PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing

LENGTH:  106 pages

RELEASE DATE:  February 04, 2020

BLURB:

What does it take for Valentine’s-Day-hating Bryan Colby to discover that he really loves it? Meeting Officer Ben Collins, of course.

Bryan Colby doesn’t like Valentine’s Day. Despite being told by his close friends that he’s silly to fester over something that happened five years ago, he just can’t get excited as yet another Valentine’s Day approaches.

Bryan, a rising star at the local real estate office, prefers to work instead, but is assaulted while showing a vacant property. In the ambulance, he meets Officer Ben Collins and Bryan wastes no time in letting Ben know he finds him attractive and would like to get better acquainted with him, in every possible way.

At first wary of Bryan’s flirty, come-hither attitude, Ben eventually warms to Bryan’s charm, and agrees to meet him for a coffee. But circumstances outside their control change that date to a much more sensual meeting.

After all, it is Valentine’s Day week, and romance is most definitely in the air…

Reader advisory: This book contains references to parental abandonment. There are scenes involving mugging/assault, and armed robbery with hostage-taking. This book also includes a practical joke of a sexual nature.

REVIEW:

This sweet little novella is the first in a series of novellas dedicated to the wretched not-really-a-holiday holiday known as Valentine’s Day. This story gives us Bryan who hates V-Day with the fire of a thousand suns thanks to a prank his sister and friend pulled in him when they were all in college.

Flash forward about a decade and he’s still in his I-loathe-this-infernal not-really-a-holiday holiday feels.

An unfortunate event for Bryan lands a hot cop named Ben right in Bryan’s lap, figuratively speaking, of course.

Both men have issues with romantic relationships—starting and maintaining them. This novella is sweet without being overly so with just the right amount of heat. I always enjoy this author’s work; his stories are always interesting and well written and this one follows along the same path as his other stories.

This story was a nice little read that I enjoyed a great deal.

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