Reviewed by True

 

TITLE: Ben’s Boss

SERIES: Maine Men #2

AUTHOR: K.C. Wells

PUBLISHER: Self-published

LENGTH: 267 pages

RELEASE DATE: June 12, 2021

BLURB:

“Pearson’s a common name.”

“It can’t be him.”

“God wouldn’t be that cruel.”

 

A painful history

Walking into the job interview confirms Ben White’s worst fears. It’s been eight years since high school, yet he can still recall Wade Pearson’s taunts.

There’s always a chance Wade isn’t the same homophobic asshole Ben knew. Yeah right.

Except the boy Ben remembers has grown into one seriously hot, brooding man. In another life, Ben would have climbed him like a tree. Wade’s gaze still makes Ben shiver – although now for entirely different reasons.

 

A secret longing

As soon as Wade read Ben’s application, he knew he had to see him. Ben’s still as gorgeous as Wade remembers. It’s obvious he doesn’t expect to get the job, given their history.

But Wade has an agenda. He has to make it up to Ben for treating him so badly – not that Ben will ever know why he acted like he did. Seeing him every day only heightens Wade’s regret. If he’d had more courage back then, maybe he and Ben could have been something.

The least he can do is show Ben he’s changed.

There’s no way Wade can get what he really wants – Ben’s heart.

 

REVIEW:

Life couldn’t be that cruel, could it?

Ben has a job interview and what he feared became true, in front of him sits his biggest nightmare, Wade Pearson.

Wade wants to do good, make right what he did wrong all those years ago.
He has to show Ben he changed. How can he ever make up for what he’d done and was going on in his life back in those days?

Ben can’t believe he got hired by Wade, Ben will run the shop with Wade’s mother Mary, and his grandfather ‘Gramps’ and some seasonal staff. Wade himself works around the four shops they got.

From the views we get from Ben and Wade, the picture of what happened in the past is getting clearer and clearer. Been bullied by Wade was horrible, painful, and unforgivable. Ben felt stupid for the attraction he had for his bully. After all these years he still feels things seeing Wade.

Very tentative they build some kind of a friendship. Ben has a big heart and it seems Wade is so not who he thought he was.

Ben is so lucky with his supportive circle of friends, they know all how he suffered because of Wade, they are always available and let him venture about his feelings. Looking at Wade and know who he really is, they even may have a chance. What would his friends say?
Ben knows he and Wade have to convince not one but seven men!

I was looking forward to Ben’s story, I love me some hurt comfort, for me, there could have been much more and more palpable. I think that isn’t the intention of this series, it’s for a wider audience.
When I look back at this story I can conclude it was quite soft, even with the bullying in mind, it was kind of sweet.
Maybe a bit predictable here and there, but no problem. All people are good at heart and good-humored, which shows throughout the story.
It’s somewhat a slow burn romance, but wait for it, when the sky got cleared the heat was on, literally!
The friends popping in was great, we get to know their characteristics more and more this way. The flow of the story was comfortable, the development enough, some side stories made the story fuller, and sometimes secondary characters aren’t quite secondary, I loved them.
The Maine Men series concept is nicely thought out, every installment will have a different main
character from one of these eight men.

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