Reviewed by Racheal Yunk
TITLE: Hit The Brakes: A Fake Boyfriend Gay Romance
SERIES: Food Truck Warriors Book 2
AUTHOR: Beth Bolden
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 383 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 8, 2021
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Can they fake it til Tate makes it?
Tate Ward is in a bind. His food truck hasn’t been the runaway success he’d always dreamt it would be. When he tries to join a new food truck collective to gain a larger following, his sales aren’t even high enough to win a spot. What he needs is a high profile endorsement—and he knows just the guy.
Tate hasn’t seen Chase Riley since high school. It’s been ten long years of watching from a distance as Chase conquers football fields and fans’ hearts.
Tate never wanted Chase to know that he had the world’s stupidest crush on him, because he always believed Chase was straight.
But desperate times call for desperate measures . . .
When Chase offers a tempting plan that could fulfill all his dreams, Tate knows he can’t say no. All he has to do is pretend that his very real feelings are actually fake.
But faking it with Chase, while leading to wild success and even wilder nights, is everything that Tate feared it would be. All it’s done is leave him wanting the impossible: Chase’s heart.
REVIEW:
Author Beth Bolden, managed to once again to suck me into her fictional series of amazing men! I thought the first book in this series was phenomenal but once again she had me drawn in from the very first page. I was rooting for the character’s of Tate and Chase from the beginning to the end of their story.
What had started off ten years prior as two teenage boys sharing a home economics, one with a huge crush and the other a big time football star were once again reunited by a some what innocent Twitter mention.
Tate for years had kept track of his first secret crush as he watch him played, saw him in numerous articles and many tabloids wondering what would have happened if he had the nerve back in high-school to make his feelings known. However, he let those ideas fade in the background as he and his sister worked hard to make their dreams come to live with their food Truck. I admired the work ethic that I saw in the character of Tate and the fact that he had refused help from a lot of his friends. I also saw it from his sister’s point of view that his stubbornness for any kind of help could jeopardize their chances of belonging to one of the biggest Food Trucking organizations. So when it comes to some siblings, they will do or suggest some pretty sneaky things to make things happen. However, what Tate’s sister does brings the past right to his food Truck.
Chase’s character broke my heart a lot throughout thus book. He was such a lost soul looking for something or someone to calm that unwanted anger he seem to always have inside of him. It was easy to understand a little of the loneliness of his character through the author’s writing. The conflicts he felt seem to be common in some stories as I am sure they are in real experiences. Being an allied to friends and other’s while the whole time hiding that part of yourself. So when Chase finds out that an old classmate of his the only one that he still thinks about used his name to help get sales for his food Truck, he finally sees his lost opportunity.
When these two character’s meet again I could practically feel the fire works written in the author’s words. However, since so much time has passed and neither one is open and honest about their feelings it makes their journey an eye opening experience but so much worth the wait.
I would highly recommend not just their story but the first book that started this amazing series . I cannot wait to read the next book.
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