Reviewed by True
TITLE: The Strings We Play
SERIES: Artists and Athletes #3
AUTHOR: CD Rachels
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 229 pages
RELEASE DATE: August 8, 2022
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Wei
As the new music professor at Korham University, I need to focus on my job. I can’t get entangled with that tall and handsome Facilities Manager who I keep bumping into on campus. Did we have a hot moment together at Christmas? Maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s taking my music lecture. Students are off limits, no matter how flirty and sexy they are.
The problem is that Logan’s not just a student; we’re co-faculty, neighbors, and we’ve become good friends. I’ve started to peel back the layers that make up who he really is. It turns out there’s more to this sweet guy whom I’ve been growing closer and closer to. As the semester winds down, the days of him being my student are numbered. Pretty soon, nothing will stand in the away of us hooking up. It’s scary, but can an athlete like him really fall for a performing artist like me? Because I’m afraid I’m already there.
Logan
I’ve been broken for a long time, so I make my job at KU my life. No one has been able to tug on my heartstrings for years. So of course I’m blindsided by this talented and gorgeous new professor I meet. He makes me smile and gives me something to look forward to for the first time in so long. The one catch: I’m taking his intro to music class.
That’s fine by me, I can push down these feelings. I can totally ignore the blazing hot chemistry Wei and I have in the tiny practice rooms while he teaches me scales. But as the semester goes on, I realize he can offer me so much more than just a pretty face; it’s possible that everything I lost all those years ago exist in Wei. When he plays a song, or whenever it’s just the two of us, it feels just like magic.
I refuse to make a move on my professor, even though we’re both faculty. Good things come to those who wait, right? I just have to not let him realize I have a massive crush on him and not let him kiss me…again. And again.
[“The Strings We Play” is a low-angst, male/male romance about two working adults. It involves music lessons, workout sessions, kissing under the stars, soccer-themed birthday cakes, and discovering the love that only a found-family can bring, HEA guaranteed.
It is the third book in the “Artists and Athletes” series but can be read as a standalone.]
REVIEW:
This was such a sweet mellow romance.
Wei Wong is happy with his new job as Assistant Professor of Music at Korham University. The catering group is another job he fills in.
Logan Micucci is the Facilities Manager of the KU Athletics Center. He is impressed by the Asian guy who plays piano at the Athletics Formal and catering the event, it’s more like he’s head over heels. For more than six years he never felt like this. He feels lucky to get music lessons from Wei at KU.
Logan is confused by Wei’s hot and cold shoulder. Wei is confused by his feelings for Logan. He can’t stay away but also can’t start anything with the man. He’s his teacher, even where they are both adults and also sort of colleagues too. They can’t be more, when you speak that out loud enough times then you gonna believe it yourself.
After Wei gets to know about Logan’s trauma, he wants to comfort him, and that’s what he does.
For my pleasure Wei was way too reserved, he’s in his right because of the teacher-student matter, but still.
In the beginning, they were a bit awkward together, I cringed at times watching them. Later on, they found a way around each other. My heart reached out to Logan, what he’s been through, ugh!
There are a few sharp moments but most of the time it was a sweet easy-going story.
I found the music aspects a wonderful addition! In the end, they have their deserved HEA.
Overall a nicely written story. I think created with the intention to make this an, as much as possible, uncomplicated sweet romantic read, mission accomplished!
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