Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Thinking it Over

SERIES: True-Blue #4

AUTHOR: Becca Seymour

PUBLISHER: Rainbow Tree Publishing

LENGTH: 236 pages

RELEASE DATE: June 13, 2020

BLURB:

When a young teacher connects with the principal of his school, work and ex issues, the possibility of happiness, and a chocolate Labrador called Penny means they have a lot to think over.

Newly appointed teacher, Jasper Taylor, can’t believe his luck. After a year, he’s found a job with the possibility of a permanent contract, which finally allows him to put his teaching degree to good use. After meeting the silver-haired principal of the school, Jasper discovers his new position offers an additional temptation. He knows he should retreat, but who said avoiding attraction was easy, especially when the man he’s crushing on seems too good to be true?

Well-respected and focused on his career, Austin Harrison is at the top of his game. He’s turned a struggling school around, has finally put up boundaries with his demanding ex, and may just have secured full custody of his chocolate Lab, Penny. The appointment of the new English teacher, Jasper, threatens to unsettle the stability he’s been working towards. Austin’s attraction is immediate, heady, and oh so complicated. But does complicated mean he has to walk away?

Join Jasper and Austin in Becca Seymour’s low-angst, feel-good LGBTQ series, True-Blue Book 4. In the small town of Kirkby, there are busybodies, dogs who cause chaos, families who have the “best” of timing, and where good men have the opportunity to find their perfect match.

REVIEW:

If you want a sweet romantic story with low angst, this is the one for you. It’s full of a lab named Penny, crazy friends, hope after loss, finding love again, and families you love but drive you nuts.

Jasper loved working at the Split Bean that his friend Davis owns, but it’s not a teaching job. He misses being in a classroom and desperately wants back in one. But after all he’s done to try to get one, nothing seems to be open. Until one day, he gets a phone call saying he’s needed to fill in a position for the rest of the semester. And Jasper is ecstatic. Especially when he meets the principal, who’s causing him to have a hard time focusing. And Austin is having just as hard of a time. But after being burned by his ex and technically being Jasper’s boss, he knows he has to put the brakes on those feelings. But something about Jasper keeps calling to him and he can’t help but wanting to be around the man. They start casually dating, and someone is already trying to cause trouble. When they find out who, because he keeps showing up, Austin is worried that his ex will make Jasper run away, and he has to do everything he can to make it right. He does, but before you know it, family has now crashed into their world and crashed into a hospital as well. Thankfully, things between them are progressing well and they are falling in love, or this might be a walking point too. Because along with Austin’s brother’s crash, comes a little surprise. And Austin is worried if this is going to be the thing to push Jasper to the edge and him leave.

Jasper and Austin really are the cutest couple. Jasper brings new life to Austin, and everyone is commenting on how much happier he seems. And for Jasper, Austin has someone that he knows he can count on, depend on, and it helps he’s really hot. They have an intimacy to them, a quiet friendship that burns bright with so much more. There are many times when Jasper could have ran, and who would have blamed him, but Jasper knows as anyone else, life sometimes throws you a lot of curveballs. And you just have to roll with them. It doesn’t mean it’s easy, or that there doesn’t need to be a LOT of communication going on, but if it’s worth having, it’s worth the work. And I friggin love Billy. I think he’s my hero. I hope somewhere along the line he finds him someone to settle with, but I love seeing him around with Austin and Jasper. 

There’s a lot of good characters in these stories. Ones that just make you all gooey and happy. But there are a few bad apples as well, and every story I guess needs them lol. Even though you want to smack them. But it’s life. Even in a book. It’s a good story.

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