Reviewed by Danielle
TITLE: Hummingbird Heartbreak
SERIES: The Gold Brothers #1
AUTHOR: Max Walker
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 324 Pages
RELEASE DATE: July 4, 2020
BLURB:
DUSTY GOLD
College is weird. One second you’re studying for a huge exam in integrated physics and the next you’re secretly drooling over the sexy rugby player living in the dorm next door.
The second after that, you’re sharing a bed with that same Insta-famous jock, staring up at the ceiling and wondering what in gay heaven caused such a miraculous and terrifying thing.
Even though it all felt like a dream, logically, I could see that it wasn’t. That everything about Brandon Reed was real. But logic didn’t stop me from feeling an icy-cold wave of fear every time I thought about my heart and my body in his (very large) hands.
Maybe inviting him to stay at my family’s house for the summer wasn’t the greatest idea I’ve ever had?
Or maybe it was the best?
BRANDON REED
I freakin’ loved college. Everything about it, minus the classes obviously. I loved being able to play rugby the most; losing myself to the game, watching the crowds in the stadium grow bigger with every win.
Rugby gave me an escape. An escape I really needed.
Then Dusty Gold springs into my life. Literally.
After we end up as surprise roomies, a spring busts on his bed and we go from roommates to snuggle buddies.
Snuggling somehow turns into staying with him over the summer at his family’s animal sanctuary. Soon, I find myself falling hard for the handsome and shy nerd. I’ve got a messy past, though, and Dusty’s got a bright future. Will my ghosts ruin us before we could ever really begin or will we both get a once-in-a-lifetime shot at a happy ending?
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Hummingbird Heartbreak is the first book in The Gold Brothers series. It’s a full-length, steamy gay romance novel and can read as a stand-alone.
REVIEW:
It has been a while since I picked up a book by this author and I am definitely glad I grabbed this one.
Hummingbird Heartbreak is a sweet, opposites attract, Jock/Nerd story with a lot of sweetness, kindness and definitely some drama put into the mix.
I loved the attraction build up we see between main characters Dusty and Brandon. The way they are both attracted to each other but too nervous/ shy/insecure/worried to act on it.
When, as the blurb says, they up they end up together by accident, things turn heated and intense quickly! There’s exploring and so much more..
Bring on the summer stay at with the family and you have an excellent story. I loved the family, from the sweetness, to the smiles, to the love and support.
The author did a thorough job of building up the (sexual) tension between Dusty and Brandon which I appreciated.
Brandon seems supported by his team and friends and I would have loved to have read a bit more on that. It isn’t often you come across that in the sports world and I would have loved to have seen that part more evolved.
Max Walker has a very pleasant way of writing and bringing you into the story. It took me a little bit to get into this but it definitely grabbed me after a few pages.
You see alternating chapters from both Dusty and Brandon and for some reason what got to me was seeing their full names constantly on top of that, for some reason it stuck out at me. I was like okay I get that those are their full names by now, we don’t have to call them by their full names all the time either, right? (obviously that is just me)
If you like a nice romance story with definitely some additional drama added you should absolutely pick this one up and let yourself be brought into this new series and their characters/family.
Overall I can say this is a great start to a new series by this author and I am definitely looking forward to reading the next books in the series
Bring it on!
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