Reviewed by True
TITLE: Brindisi Bedfellows
AUTHOR: Jamie Craig
PUBLISHER: JMS Books
LENGTH: 169 pages
RELEASE DATE: May 22, 2021
BLURB:
Getting dumped is never fun. Getting dumped by your boyfriend on the eve of your first vacation in six years because he decides to reconcile with his ex-wife is agony.
Heartbroken Christian Davis is drowning his sorrows when his ex-lover’s best friend swoops in and throws his world into chaos. Trip Watson is gorgeous and gregarious and everything Chris doesn’t need right now. But none of that seems to matter when Trip finds out what Andrew did to him. Appalled by Andrew’s callous treatment, Trip announces the best way to get over the break-up — and to rub Andrew’s face in it — is to go to Italy as planned and spend the next three weeks having the time of his life. With Trip.
Mutual lust drives them together. Andrew could very well push them apart. Especially if the truth about Trip’s relationship with him ever comes to light.
REVIEW:
Wow, Trip didn’t hate him, like Chris always thought. Trip likes Chris enough to go on vacation with him, to rub it in Andrew’s face. Andrew broke up with Chris and got back to his demanding ex-wife.
Trip is Andrew’s best friend and until now Chris and Trip didn’t interact a lot. Trip mostly avoided Chris, he was Andrew’s best friend, not Chris’.
Accepting Andrew’s ticket from Chris, Trip and Chris fly to Rome.
The first thing they do is visit the airplane bathroom for a nice shag, many, many encounters will follow.
Italy, here they come!
Ah, there are some unexpected secret things about Trip. Chris can never know. It would ruin everything he built with Chris.
Chris is enjoying Rome, fooling around with a beautiful Italian while Trip is drunk in bed.
Trip acts like a bad boy, but for real he’s just hiding his vulnerability. Opening up to Chris seems so easy. Trip is the creative one and Chris is admiring him. Who knew Chris is the kindest guy he ever met. How stupid could Andrew be!
After Trip confesses something about his friendship with Andrew, Chris has a lot to think about.
Three weeks, it starts quite physically, apart and together, they travel, enjoying Italy, enjoying each other, the conversations added made it something more. It seems they fit perfectly. Pity, it’s just for three weeks after that, nothing. Or could they work back in London?
Both protagonists were lovable and surprisingly mellow, maybe a bit too, there were no arguments, no real hard feelings against Andrew who hurt them both. The hurt from the break-up was so minor, I expected more from it.
It was an easygoing story, I was waiting for something, hurt, struggle, I’m not sure, I missed something. There was a bunch of sexual entertainment, and a lot of kissing, all enjoyable, still I missed something. Maybe because there were too few ups and downs, or it went all too smoothly, or it was mostly focused on the physical part? I’m not sure.
Still, with some complaints, I enjoyed the story.
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