Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Picking Cherries
SERIES: Welcome to Morningwood #9
AUTHOR: Kiki Burrelli
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 157 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 25, 2020
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Shy and unsure, what Shiloh needs is a steady hand to guide him.
Shiloh Formes has lived his young adult life in fear of turning into his brother. Seamus couldn’t make the right choice if it bit him in the bottom. But Shiloh didn’t graduate high school early to spend his life partying like his brother. Shiloh plans on dedicating his life to his academic passion and he knows just the professor to help him get started.
Secret billionaire and respected professor, Beckett Crawford has everything but a mate to love.
Blind since birth, Beckett is an alpha who knows what it’s like to have to work twice as hard as his peers. He understands Shiloh’s passion but the student asks him for a favor Beckett simply cannot grant. But Shiloh doesn’t leave without making an impression on Beckett, and soon, he can’t stop thinking about the student who should be so clearly off-limits.
Shiloh needs to be careful. He can’t afford to fall into the same downward spiral that dragged down his brother. Even if Shiloh has fallen hard for his teacher, nothing can come of it. But when an old enemy threatens Shiloh, it’s Beckett who rushes to protect him. It’s Beckett who offers Shiloh the key to unlocking his academic future, and it is Beckett who cares for Shiloh like he’s the most precious thing in the world. But with as many reasons Shiloh has for why they should be together, there are just as many threatening to tear them apart.
Picking Cherries is the ninth novel in the Welcome to Morningwood Series. It may absolutely be read as a standalone and features an age/gap, student/professor, omegaverse romance with a dash of domestic discipline (lite) to keep it spicy.
Other books included in the Welcome to Morningwood Series:
Gingerbred Lessons
Ball Drop
Sweet Meat
Sack of Gold
Hop On
Red, White & Blew
Pumpkin Cream Pie
Love Nest
REVIEW:
I love shifter stories, but whoo, this one gave me the willies to a point. I love me some Beckett, don’t get me wrong, but his animal makes me want to run for the hills. But I still love him. And so does someone else.
Shiloh is such a smart shifter, only being 17 and in college. He’s good at his studies and he’s found a course in which he’s passionate about. But the professor won’t let first or second year students enter his class. Mainly because it’s a heavy workload. But Shiloh is determined to make it in. After several run ins with Prof. Crawford, who is not at all what Shiloh expected, he’s extremely upset. Which, of course is what got Seamus in trouble back in his story. But when Beckett comes across Shiloh in a hallway, upset and crying, something in Beckett changes. It’s been hard enough trying to keep Shiloh off his mind and his scent out of his brain. But seeing Shiloh upset, hurts him. But can Shiloh accept the kind of relationship that Beckett needs? And when push comes to shove, will Shiloh stand by Beckett’s side or will his age and uncertainty break them apart?
I knew way back, that Shiloh was going to need a different relationship than the others. He needs someone in control and to take care of him in a way that some wouldn’t understand. And Beckett needs to be the one in control. You’d think it would be a perfect match, right? But sometimes, age can be a factor and other things as well. Such as people’s opinions. It doesn’t mean their opinion is right, but if it gives you pause in what you are doing and what you are thinking, maybe you aren’t where you should be or maybe you shouldn’t be ashamed of what you need and not listen to everyone else. It’s hard. And for Shiloh, I truly felt for him, because he was being torn in so many directions and listening to too many things, instead of the one thing he should have been listening to all along. His heart. And Beckett. But Beckett was right in some things. Some thing he can take the control over and make the decisions about, but some things Shiloh has to do for himself.
But I love them. It’s hard when you’re feeling your way around new territory. It doesn’t help when pheromones are overwhelming you in every sense either. But, the key thing in this book, was a rule of Beckett’s. Be honest and communicate. No one is a mind reader. I love this series so much. I love learning the ins and outs of everyone. Seeing the new characters that come about. It’s interesting in how they all intertwine as well.
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