Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Risking It All
SERIES: Brothers Series (Book 2)
AUTHOR: Kathleen Ryder
PUBLISHER: Ryder Publications
LENGTH: 41 pages
RELEASE DATE: October 15, 2021
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Amazon Bestselling Author Kathleen Ryder brings you Risking It All
He’s the billionaire playboy with a reputation to protect.
He’s the small-town doctor with a baby in tow.
Undeniably attracted to each other, will they risk their hearts, and their families, for a future together?
When Jack Marsden, voted most eligible bachelor in Australia, returns to Wallaroo, his goal is simple: Attend his brothers society wedding, appease his mother, then get the hell out of town.
When Luke Harper accepts a six-month placement as GP in Wallaroo, it is a chance for him to recover from his sister’s death, and to bond with his new charge, his six-month-old niece, Holly.
What he didn’t expected was to run in to his old crush, Jack Marsden, looking as sexy as ever.
Jack knows that in order to be happy he has to be honest with himself, but to do so would risk hurting those he loves most, his family.
The timing had never been right for Jack and Luke, but with wedding magic in the air, will they get their own chance at happily ever after, or will the risk be too great?
REVIEW:
A very quick short story.
After doing some research, after reading the story and the author lists all her books, it turns out that this is a short story for what seems to be conclusion to the original full length book The Marriage Deal. Now it makes more sense since there was little character development and I felt like I was plopped in the middle of an on-going story. I am assuming that this short story, only 41 pages, is to give some insight to Sam’s gay but closeted brother and also to give a follow up and conclusion to the original story. The original book was M/F so maybe that’s why it wasn’t mentioned in the promotion.
I’m going to assume that reading the first book might have made this story more satisfying however it, as a stand-alone, for which it was presented for review, just fell flat, was rushed without real development and I found very lacking. The story line held promise/potential for a real book but read more like rough notes for story development.
For those reasons I found myself very dissatisfied and felt cheated.
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