Reviewed by Stephen K

TITLE: All the Wrong Places

Series: (Bluewater Bay #14)

AUTHOR: Ann Gallagher

PUBLISHER: Riptide Publishing

LENGTH: 238 Pages

RELEASE DATE: August 12^th 2016

BLURB:

Three cheating girlfriends in a row have given skateboarder Brennan Cross the same excuse: he wasn’t meeting their needs. Desperate and humiliated, he goes to the professionals at the local sex shop for advice.

Zafir Hamady, a sales clerk at Red Hot Bluewater, has an unusual theory: he doesn’t think Brennan is a bad lover. In fact, he doesn’t think Brennan is heterosexual. Or sexual at all, for that matter. He also can’t stop thinking about Brennan. But even if he’s right and Brennan really is asexual, that doesn’t mean Zafir has a chance. Brennan’s never dated a man, and Zafir’s never met anyone who’s game for a Muslim single father with a smart mouth and a GED.

Brennan’s always thought of himself as straight. But when sex is explicitly out of the mix, he finds himself drawn to Zafir for the qualities and interests they share. And Zafir can’t help enjoying Brennan’s company and the growing bond between Brennan and his son. They work well together, but with so many issues between them, doubts creep in, and Brennan’s struggle with his identity could push away the one person he didn’t know he could love.

REVIEW:

I just discovered that the Pacific Northwest has another group of interesting dudes… only this time they don’t sparkle in the Sunlight or morph into ginormous wolves.

Brennan Cross is a competitive skateboarder who works in a skateshop by day and is just coming off catching his third girlfriend in a row tell him he wasn’t satisfying them. When he goes into a sex shop to learn how to “up his game” he’s surprised by Zafir Hamady, a muslim single dad who asks Brennan if he’s ever considered if he might be asexual.

Seems Zafir is, despite having had a son with a non-muslim girl that he’s now raising as a single dad. Zafir’s openness and willingness to answer Brennan’s many questions brings the two into repeated contact and as Rick says at the end of Casablanca, “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

This book (and the audio-book version as well ) have been reviewed previously on Love Bytes but for a short time the kindle-edition is free on Amazon.

If you’ve been curious to read a good ACE coming-out/coming to terms story, this is a great opportunity. If you’re like me and just a sucker for an M/M story where you can enjoy enjoy spending time with two likable guys and seeing them end up together, now’s the time. If you’ve got a thing for single kids with adorable kids, now’s the time. I guess what I’m saying is you can’t beat the price on this amazing tale.

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