Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Oh So Oscar
SERIES: Forever Love (Book 3)
AUTHOR: Charlie Novak
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 287 pages
RELEASE DATE: May 5, 2022
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What happens when a prickly travel journalist falls for his fake boyfriend?
Oscar Moore has two problems. One: He’s accidentally managed to convince his boss, the legendary editor of The Traveller, that he has a boyfriend. And two: he now has to persuade photographer and casual acquaintance, Ilias Verrati, to play along for a week-long couple’s retreat in Hawaii.
Ilias is full of sass and sunshine, but his constant flirting grates on Oscar. Unfortunately, unless Oscar wants to confess and risk his job, he has to keep up the ruse. He can manage a week, and if he can pull this off then editorial glory awaits.
Oscar and Ilias both have their own reasons for avoiding relationships—even if they desperately want one—and their work makes finding love even more difficult, but maybe a fake relationship is just what they need to give them a nudge in the right direction.
Under the Hawaiian sun, Oscar discovers there’s more to Ilias than meets the eye. But before Ilias will risk his heart, Oscar will have to find a way to open it.
Oh So Oscar is a 78,000-word contemporary MM romance featuring fake dating, luxurious hotel rooms, star gazing, and delicious food. It also contains discussions of grief, including the past loss of a parent, and the past loss of a partner.
REVIEW:
I’m just not ready to leave the Baker-Moore family.
Oscar Moore is the last brother of the Baker-Moore family to pair up. His family knows and accepts that he is gay. Except for stick-in-the-mud Richard they all fall somewhere on the LGBTQ+ scale. What they don’t know is that he is demisexual. It means he doesn’t experience sexual attraction without feeling a strong emotional connection to that person. That he is always gone on assignment all over the world as a travel journalist makes it harder to connect to someone but easier to hide from his larger, intrusive family. Now that he’s on staff at The Traveler magazine he pitches, by accident, the need to show more LGBTQ+ friendly travel locations. When the Editor-in-Chief gives her go ahead he’s baffled that she wants him to take his boyfriend with him so he can give a true perspective of how a gay couple is treated at these luxury place. She arranges for them to travel to the beautiful town of Kona-Kailua on the majestic Big Island of Hawaii. Now for the tiny bit of the problem. To convince fellow travel Photographer/blogger Ilias Verrati to go with him as his fake boyfriend!
These two men had so much to offer one another. They had both experienced great loss during their youth that changed them. Oscar being the oldest when his dad died when he was only six years old. And Ilias tragically losing his young fiancé at the tender age of nineteen. Although many years had passed for both deep scars ran through each of them. They had to learn to trust but when that trust began to form there was no turning back and love was bound to bloom. I loved how Oscar provided comfort when Ilias finally broke down and confided in him. And I loved that Ilias knew to let Oscar take the lead sexually so that he could build and grow to accept that Ilias was the one.
It was great to get to have little catch-ups with the family. I am going to truly miss this wacky, vibrant family now that we have reached the end of the series. This was my first reading relationship with the talented Charlie Novak but I can guarantee that it will continue. I am looking forward to revisiting Heather Bay now that I discovered it with Oscar and Ilias. This has been a great series and the only thing I’m truly disappointed in was that we never got Eli’s best friend Orlando’s story with his two partners.
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