Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Sawyer
SERIES: The Gates #7
AUTHOR: M. Tasia
PUBLISHER: Boroughs Publishing Group
LENGTH: 156 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 26, 2021
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ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
When Sawyer Hudson has a run-in with the mercurial executive chef at The Gates where Sawyer works as a dishwasher, he’s certain he’s going to lose his job. For anyone that would be horrible. For Sawyer it’s a death sentence for the person he loves most in the world: his disabled brother.
Award-winning world-renowned executive chef, Alexander Larsen, has time for his kitchen, his culinary creations, and little else. As a member of a family known for its wealth and philanthropy, Alexander enjoys privilege few can imagine.
Living at the extremes of the life situation spectrum, Sawyer and Alexander find themselves thrown together in a series of events that bring the men closer in unexpected ways, and opposites attract becomes the understatement of the year.
Not everyone is happy about the burgeoning love affair, but these two men have found something neither ever expected, and to hell with anyone who tries to keep them apart.
REVIEW:
I’ve loved this series and each of the guys in it. I loved it when it started with the Boys of Brighton and it’s just continued to get better with each one. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed getting to be involved in each of the lives of these men as they struggle to make the changes in their lives that are necessary. And as they’ve learned, that sometimes it’s ok to let someone in.
With Sawyer, his hands are full. I admired him from the minute I started reading about him. He went from being a young man who was on his way to college to start a new life for himself, to being severely injured, losing both of his parents, and having to care for is parapalegic brother. All without having a clue to anything. Not knowing who to talk to, go to, to get help from. But with some help, he’s made it so far. And is so strong for being able to keep going, even when he wants to give up some days. And it’s taken such courage to face everything he’s faced. Including two different bad people who are trying to hurt him in different ways.
And Sawyer was one of those who had to learn, it’s ok to accept help. It doesn’t mean you’re trash or weak or anything else because someone has to give you a hand up. It just means you need help, period. And he’s finally gotten to where he can. Which is why I love Alexander. He doesn’t care that he has money. He’ll be the first to tell you that even though he comes from money, it’s not his. They all use that money to help others and he works his butt off. And he saw something in Sawyer from the first time he really stopped to look at him. Sure, he screwed up their first official meet, but he’s doing his best to make up for it. He’s trying to show Sawyer that people have his back and they will all help to get him and his brother through anything they are dealing with. And he backs it up with a punch and a half.
I think out of them all though, I really love Bobby. Even being stuck in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, having to have help doing simple things we take for granted, he keeps a pretty positive attitude and tries to find the fun in life. And that is very admirable. Because yeah, there are days when maybe he feels like it’s not worth going on, but overall, he has so much to live for. And Alexander is helping with that as well.
It’s a really good book. And a good series as well.
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