Reviewed by Cindy
TITLE: Sean’s Sunshine
SERIES: The Flophouse Book 3
AUTHOR: Amy Lane
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 347 Pages
RELEASE DATE: March 7, 2023
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As a young detective, Sean Kryzynski expected violence on the job, not to get stabbed coming back from lunch. Add an angsty bedside breakup, and by the time he gets home from the hospital, he’s over everything, including his irritating, hot-as-balls nurse, Billy No-Last-Name with the big, cynical brown eyes.
Billy’s whole porn-model flophouse is experiencing a wave of altruism and adulting—people getting real jobs and going to shrinks and doing good works. Billy opts in too—he wants to be a good guy—but his assignment is taking care of the world’s most exasperating, headstrong patient. At least bunking with Sean means Billy has his own spare bedroom and some peace and quiet to do classwork.
The porn model and the policeman seem to have no common ground, but Billy’s experience herding his younger siblings helps him manage Sean with unexpected empathy—a skill Sean has been working on too, because he wants to be a good cop. Eventually they chip away at the walls around each other’s hearts and discover a real connection. If not for their incompatible day jobs and inconvenient pasts, they might even be falling in love….
REVIEW:
Billy is starting to get his life figured out, thanks to the good luck at finding the flophouse. It’s amazing how your life can change when someone actually gives a shit about you.
Sean is doing his best during his recovery, but the beautiful young man taking care of him is pushing too many of his buttons for comfort. He needs to get better as quickly as possible.
Billy and Sean are doing a complicated dance around each other. Their circumstances sometimes put them at odds, but they are definitely on a direct path toward one another.
This little universe that Amy Lane has going on is very hard to resist. The characters are all so loveable! Do I think this is how most people involved in porn are treated? Probably not, but I wish they would be.
The characters a wonderfully complex. Sean’s upbringing influences his life as much as Billy’s does his. This story makes an interesting comparison between the two. They are taking two very different journey’s through life, yet somehow end up in the same place when they need to be.
One of my favorite things about these stories is the humor that somehow makes all the emotions the characters are going through feel so much more real.
Also, it’s nice to catch up with the characters from the previous stories in this series and the other series in this universe as well. It’s like visiting old friends.
I honestly can’t find too much to complain about with this book. Did it blow me away? No, and it didn’t go anywhere I didn’t expect, hence the 4.5 rating instead of 5. But it’s a damn good read with a story that was easy to fall into and that wouldn’t let me go until it was finished. And finish it in one reading I did, much to my chagrin. I enjoyed the book so much, I couldn’t even be too angry with myself for staying up well past my bedtime to finish it.
There is some talk about some sad subjects, like bad self-esteem and past abuse, but it never bogs the story down.
Of course the sex is hot, but it’s appropriate for the story and the author never let’s it take the whole thing over. I appreciate a fantastic storyline more than scene after scene of sex these days.
I hope you enjoy this story as much as I did, and as always, I will be waiting to see what Amy Lane comes up with for us next!
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