Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: May the Best Man Win
AUTHOR: J.R. Gray & Kate Hawthorne
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 238 pages
RELEASE DATE: February 10, 2020
BLURB:
I hate Jasper Marshal.
Hate is a visceral and terrible word, but it’s the right one.
This guy is everything I’m not.
Jock.
Sports ball obsessed.
Testosterone fueled.
Jacked up.
He’s also sexy as hell with a submissive side I discovered by accident.
Definitely an accident. If you want to call him on his knees in my kitchen an accident.
He pushes all my buttons good and bad.
And to top it off, he’s my best friend Sam’s brother.
I’d become really good at avoiding Jasper since high school, but then Sam asked us both to be the best men at his wedding. Now, not only do I have to work with him to plan a bachelor party in Vegas, we need to survive a destination wedding…in Hawaii.
It’s hard enough to be civil so we don’t ruin the wedding, but on top of that, I have to resist the urge to drag Jasper into every back room I can find and show him how much I hate him, all while trying not to get into a fist fight.
One of us isn’t going to survive this, so may the best man win.
May the Best Man Win is an enemies to lovers romance with the promise of pineapple bushes, tit-glitter (whatever that means), and one definitely unfixable bed.
REVIEW:
I was looking forward to this book. It is from two terrific authors. It’s has a Bachelor Party trip to Vegas and a destination wedding in my beloved Hawaii. Plus it has a submissive character. It’s a total win/win for me…or at least that’s what I thought.
I enjoy a good enemies-to-lovers book. The sexual tension and angst can lead to some explosive sex. Add in a submissive with a good dominant and it can be gold! Unfortunately this book didn’t work for me. Yes Jasper seemed to enjoy being more dominated during sex but that was the only place he was in my opinion. And he and Jasper never set any rules or even discussed it. That fell apart for me completely. As for their years long “Feud” over a girlfriend that one stole to use as his beard from the other in high school. That was so lame.
Another major reason for opting on this book was that it was set in Hawaii for the wedding. Yes there was a defender to going down to the beach and eating pineapple before oral sex but it didn’t even refer to what island they were on. At least when they went to Vegas I felt that the authors had been there before and threw in some references that made me feel like the characters went there.
Then there was the editing at the beginning of the book. I felt like the proofreader didn’t check the first few chapters. I’m usually pretty lenient on this but it was pretty darn bad and kept pulling me from the book. I did actually finish the book but I kept setting it down so it took me much longer than usual to get through. I just didn’t connect with the characters the way I usually do. I want to be clear though. I’m not saying this is a bad book but that, with the errors, lack of character development and misleading blurb, it just didn’t work for me.
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