Reviewed by Taylin
TITLE: Blow Me Away
AUTHOR: Billy Bloom
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 198 Pages
RELEASE DATE: January 10, 2022
BLURB:
Things are about to get spicy…
Showing up solo to a wedding where his ex is the best man? That’s a hard pass, even for the brazen and confident Noah Harper. Thankfully, his bestie has a brilliant plan: Take her straight as an arrow brother Nick as his fake boyfriend instead.
Nick is happy to pretend—a free trip to Hawaii is hard to pass up—but apparently it will cost him exactly one existential crisis when sharing a hotel room with the charming and funny Noah turns unexpectedly…complicated.
Their flirting is starting to feel pretty real and when the suddenly curious hockey jock Nick wants to experiment? Hold on to your lei, honey, because things are about to get spicy!
What to Expect: Fake boyfriends, guy talk, secret experiments, hot as heck first times, a bi-awakening and of course a heaping dose of swoon!
REVIEW:
To ‘stick it’ to his ex-fiancée, Noah needs a fake boyfriend for his sister’s wedding. Noah’s best friend, Becca, volunteers her straight brother, Nick. Nick is always up for something new and a challenge but was unaware of the revelation Noah would be.
Blow Me Away is billed as something spicy, and it is undoubtedly that. However, it is more of a Tikka Masala than a Madras, and, my reading experience didn’t reflect the words in the title of the book.
The tale is told in the first person from the viewpoints of Noah and Nick. As I received an uncorrected proof – I won’t be commenting on any technicalities. While worldbuilding is negligible, conversations are quirky and entertaining. And it is the dialogue I’d have liked to see more of to flesh out the story itself.
Noah and Nick are delightful characters. Noah is a rather dramatic individual with a heart. Nick is a curious man with an open mind, willing to have new experiences and see where they may lead.
The lion’s share of the book is sexually-orientated, interspersed with brief social situations that lead to the next bedtime experience, which given the storyline – I get. But sex alone, a story does not make. The dialogue was sufficiently snarky to have been used to, more effectively, deal with social encounters outside of the bedroom and would have added more substance to the narrative in a way that was sympathetic to the arc.
Blow Me Away is low on angst, heavy on explicit intimacy, and simplistic in story. There will always be a time, place, and market for this book genre, and as already said, Nick and Noah are adorable. Sadly, while reading, my heart rate hardly changed.
I found the story a lighthearted, sweet read, with cute characters and quirky conversations. However, it was more sex than substance for my reading tastes, and I’d have preferred more action outside of the sheets than between them – hence the mediocre mark.
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