Reviewed by Valerie

TITLE: Mr. Important

SERIES: Honeybridge #2

AUTHORS: Lucy Lennox & May Archer

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 397 pages

RELEASE DATE: March 14, 2024

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One New Year’s masquerade. One anonymous hookup. One billionaire-sized mistake.

Once upon a time, someone looked at my scrawny, impetuous eight-year-old self and nicknamed me Mr. Important… and I believed them.

That was my first mistake.

Two decades, a dozen failed careers, and a thousand meaningless hookups later, I’ve made more mistakes than I can count. My parents have decided I’m purely decorative, my brother thinks I need pep talks, and the gorgeous billionaire who hired me as a favor to my dad? He’s forgotten I exist.

So I’m done with mistakes.

Call it my New Year’s resolution. From now on, I’m going after what I want… starting with the mysterious silver fox in the Roman warrior mask who approached me at the charity gala and offered me a scorching, anonymous one-night stand.

Unfortunately, when our masks come off I realize mistakes are not done with me.

Because the bossy guy who blew my mind? He’d thought I was someone else. Worse than that, he’s my father’s friend. A supposedly-straight workaholic. The person I’m stuck on a road trip with for the next two weeks. And, oh yeah, my actual boss.

The farther we get from New York, the closer we become, and the harder it is to pretend I’m not falling for him. But I can’t see how someone as brilliant, controlled, and successful as Thatcher Pennington would risk everything to be with someone like me… even if he makes me feel like I’m finally Mr. Important.

REVIEW:   

Lucy Lennox and May Archer are one of the best writing duos in the MM genre; I’m delighted they’re back with the second book in the Honeybridge series. Mr. Important is a highly enjoyable employee/boss, age gap romance between Reagan and his dad’s friend,  Thatcher.

Reagan has recently moved to NYC with the desire to find his purpose.  He’s had numerous failed jobs and it’s time for him to become a new man, independent from his needlesome, interfering mother and disrespectful, politician father. He currently working a low level job at one of Thatcher’s companies. It’s fate one night at a masquerade ball when Thatcher mistakenly propositions Reagan thinking he’s his dating app date. Later, when they end up on a cross country bus trip alone together it becomes too difficult to ignore the chemistry – as  much as Thatcher tries – and they begin a clandestine affair. There’s a subplot concerning problems at work that adds to the depth and enjoyment of the novel.

Both of these men are very likable and you’ll be rooting for them from page one. They have intense chemistry. The eighteen year age gap trope is yummy. I appreciate that Reagan was in his late twenties; large age gaps with an early twenties MC make me a little uncomfortable because it often feels like there’s a power imbalance. That is not the case here. Despite Reagan’s condescending parents and a villain at work, Reagan and Thatcher make it work and find their HEA.

I liked seeing JT, Flynn, and Pop Honeycutt back in Honeybridge, and meeting new character, McGee, who is Thatcher’s driver and man Friday. Newsletter subscribers will find a link to a short story about McGee finding love of his own.

This is definitely a 5 star/heart read. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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