Reviewed by Lesley
TITLE: Cover up
SERIES: Iron Works #11: Key Largo 3
AUTHOR: E.M. Lindsey
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 256 Pages
RELEASE DATE: 24th September 2023
BLURB:
Felix has a major problem.
He’s pining.
Well, pining might not be the right word for how he feels about the absurdly hot, one-armed chef who works next door, but it’s close enough.
Felix doesn’t have high hopes for romance, though. Not with the fact that his face blindness means every time he looks at Deimos, it’s like he’s seeing him for the first time. After all, who would want a relationship with a man who couldn’t pick him out of a crowd?
But that’s not his actual problem. Felix learns he needs to see his terrible family for his grammy’s funeral, and Dei has offered to go along to act like his boyfriend.
And God help him, but Felix can’t bring himself to say no.
But hey, what’s a little emotional torture when he gets to pretend Dei is his for a little while?
It seems that Dei has softer, kinder plans for Felix’s heart than to torture it, however—and Felix quickly learns there’s no way to cover up being in love. Dei’s words of affection are powerful, and Felix realizes the only thing in the world he wants is to let Dei in.
Cover-Up is a slow burn, friends to lovers romance featuring fake boyfriends, tattoos as a love language, gratuitous use of adorable pet names, pining, there’s only one bed, heavy praise, steamy nights, and the most satisfying happily ever after.
REVIEW:
I love this series for so many different reasons.
I love the fact that we get to see such a diverse range of differently abled characters get to find their happy endings, whilst still facing the real challenges their differences cause as well as the challenges life in general causes.
The books do not hide the fact that having missing limbs, restricted/ minimal or no hearing / sight, a brain injury, mental health issues, abusive childhoods cause different challenges and do impact how people are brought up and how they feel about themselves.
But what the books also do is show that these things don’t need to be the only thing that define you and that they shouldn’t stop you living a happy life, having friends and finding love ( if you want it). Good friends and family (found or otherwise) will find a way to make life do-able and happy for you.
I love the fact that we get to see past characters even from the original Iron Works series still in this book, so we get to see how their stories continue. Tony for instance in this book .
I love the fact that there are always challenges along the way in each of the stories. This just makes them reflect true life so much more to me.
I also love how E.M. Lindsey has manged to create such a great cast of characters through-out these hooks. I like them all and want them all to succeed. I want all their stories!
This is the 3rd book in the Iron Works Key Largo Series and Amazon also lists it as the 11th book in the Iron Works Series. Having read all the book in the series makes it really hard for me to judge if you need to have read them all to fully enjoy this one. I don’t think you do but I would if you can because if nothing else they are really good books.
I am really looking forward to the rest of this series and I really can’t wait to see what the future pairings are as I did not see this one coming despite having just re – read the 1st 2 Key largo books.
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