Reviewed by True
TITLE: Stroll into Love
SERIES: Mulligan in Love
AUTHOR: Sophie E. Russell
PUBLISHER: Self-Publishing
LENGTH: 372 pages
RELEASE DATE: September 30, 2020
BLURB:
I’ve met his gaze weekly for nearly a year. When I finally approach the green-eyed lumberjack, I feel our instant connection. Does he?
The more I discover, the more drawn I am to Sébastien, but the French Canadian can only offer friendship. Admittedly, I’m happy just being near him.
As we get closer, though, remaining friends isn’t enough.
When Séb finally opens up about his daughter, his ex, and why he fears being touched, my feelings intensify. But, I wonder if revealing my own past will be worth the pain of facing it. Can I show Séb who I am behind my playful mask?
Every week, I see the sad man with honey eyes. He makes me crave what I cannot have, if I am to protect my daughter and mon coeur.
When Schuyler approaches me after months of shared looks, I reluctantly offer friendship, though I know he wants more.
My baggage might scare Sky away, but more and more I hope he stays. I might even be able to trust him with what scares me most: touch.
I hope Sky will trust me with his everything because the sadness in his eyes breaks mon coeur.
Stroll into Love is the first book in the Mulligan in Love series and can be read as a standalone. This fluffy, sexy, slow-burn gay romance is sure to make you swoon and giggle. Happily ever after is guaranteed.
REVIEW:
For the first installment of a series, it was a captivating, good, solid story. After I finished it I was content and satisfied.
In the first quarter of this story, the author gifs fragments of their past and of what withhold them to start something. When the picture was clear you’ll finally understand there’s a mountain of hurt to overcome.
Sébastien promised his friend Andes, to get out once a week and make contact or get laid. He has a six-year-old daughter Aimee, who will stay with a friend so he can go out. Sitting at the bar he has eye contact with a beautiful man with honey eyes full of sorrow. This continues, week after week, month after month, every Thursday, eye contact, nothing more. Somehow they depend on the other to be there.
After almost a year Sky approaches the green eyes man, it’s time to connect.
We get to know them and my goodness they both have so much going on in their lives. Both are emotionally closed off. They have to open up to heal. Only, there is a devastating conclusion, some can and some can’t.
We meet family, friends, both old or new. We meet darling little princess Aimee who was the sunshine and glue in this story.
Séb was a mature man, who knew what he wanted and not wanted. He was the one who made the necessary choices, his little girl was the most important one. Sky’s past is hurtful and it got him on his knees. For me, some parts of this story should have been a little bit more spread out. I knew there was a story, only it was a bit much to tell in one time. Everything goes well and then… not. While reading I had trouble with all the France fragments in Séb’s sentences, I understand the use, only they worked distracting and interrupted the flow for me. It’s a slow-burn story, so the lovers of slow-burn get their way here, when they finally come together it was hot and steamy.
All characters together gave me a warm feeling, they were a family, a solid circle of friends. They shared their feelings of grief, they gave each other space to heal, they had joy and above all, they loved each other through thick and thin. I’m so curious about Andes and Joules their story! Overall an entertaining and enjoyable experience, with convincing, plausible characters and plot.
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