Reviewed by True
TITLE: The Cockpit
SERIES: Voyagers #3
AUTHOR: Ava Olsen
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 298 pages
RELEASE DATE: June 27, 2023
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Rafe: I’ve given up my modeling career to work on the other side of the lens. And touring the coast of Australia on my brother’s yacht is a dream come true for my first gig as a professional photographer. Only, this dream could end up a nightmare since I’m forced to travel with the one man who gets under my skin – Captain George Bernard.
Our animosity isn’t new, and neither is my curiosity about the quiet man who keeps to himself. But on this trip, I make it my mission to put our arguments to rest. Then, the unthinkable happens – I’m falling for the one person I never expected and for the first time in my life.
We both have careers that take us all over the world. Can George and I make long-distance, long-term, or is our shipboard romance just that?
George: As a former British navy officer, and now charter captain, I’ve traveled the globe and always call the sea my home. And at forty-nine, I’ve resigned myself to a life lived alone. Until the irreverent Rafe Carter steps aboard my ship.
Rafe, brother to my boss. A model turned photographer, he’s everything I’m not – outgoing and flirtatious. I’m flustered by the man and his manner, and now the sailing is anything but smooth.
But I pride myself on being diplomatic and I vow that Rafe and I are going to put aside our differences. Only, it’s not as simple as that. As I get to know the man behind the pictures, a different kind of tension builds between us.
The more I know, the harder I fall. A love I’d never thought possible is suddenly the only thing that matters.
Both of us are wanderers, but I know one thing for sure. Rafe is not walking off this ship and out of my life for good.
The Cockpit is an enemies to lovers, age gap, demi rep, MM romance filled with surprising confessions, possessive chemistry, and an HEA that will leave you breathless. This is Book Three of the Voyagers’ series: one superyacht, four love stories that span the globe.
REVIEW:
Oh, I was so looking forward to this story, enemies-to-lovers is my favorite. And I was thrilled by this story it didn’t disappoint on any front.
We met the main characters already in the previous stories of this awesome series.
So we know George, forty-nine, the captain of the yacht ‘Now, Voyager’, and Rafe is the thirty-three years brother of the owner, Rafe the model, who’s also a photographer, traveling the world, they can’t stand each other.
They have to avoid each other as much as possible for the next two months.
While George is rude towards Rafe, Rafe can’t deny the man is a beautiful silver fox.
“Could I actually die of embarrassment? I was about to test the theory.”
There’s a lot of tension, a lot of unreasonable arguments, avoiding, until George has to make it up and let his screw send an invitation to Rafe for dinner with the captain. That’s the turning point.
George is demi, and needs connection before intimacy, when talking about sex he talks about lovemaking, while in Rafe’s dictionary, there’s only a quick fuck, hand or blow job, hearing George talk like that does the strangest things to Rafe’s heart.
Rafe is questioning himself, he never experienced romance. George loves old-fashion romantic gestures and doesn’t hesitate to show off. What a vision.
He’s so amazing, helpful, attentive, and protective, showing Rafe is his.
Luckily he has his flaws or else it wouldn’t be fun, now would it?
There’s something beautiful growing between them, something precious.
Gosh, what a delightful story, it was everything I hoped for. It started rocky, but oh boy did that change. George and Rafe’s characters are more than nicely developed, with every page I loved them more. Their HEA was breathtaking!
The writing was exquisite, I can’t find a thing that could go better or that I wanted different.
A winner for sure, I’m so looking forward to the next of this series.
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