Reviewed by Sadonna

TITLE:  For the Cameras

SERIES:  Fixer Brothers Construction Company

AUTHOR:  Raleigh Ruebins

PUBLISHER:  Self-published

LENGTH:  253 pages

RELEASE DATE:  June 20, 2024

BLURB:

Our fans get to see everything when we’re together on camera.
But what’s between the two of us is strictly for the videos… right?

I’ve been a socially awkward introvert for my whole life—and not a soul knows that I upload anonymous videos to an adult site. By day, I’m a shy office worker. At night, I have my hand, my phone camera, and a little secret.

Chase is my polar opposite. He’s a camera guy who’s in my house every day, filming for the Fixer Brothers Construction TV show as they renovate my place. Chase is confident. Flirty. A colorful social butterfly, charming the pants off of everyone he meets. When he finds out my secret, I’m mortified.

…But I never thought that I would end up in front of his camera.

Doing things I’ve never done with another guy.

But it’s all for the cameras, and for our fans. Chase doesn’t do commitment, and I can’t let myself fall for him. But when his hands are on me, I’m falling harder and faster than I ever thought I could…

Even when the cameras stop rolling.

REVIEW:

Note:  This is book 6 in this series.  It contains major spoilers for the earlier books/couples.  It can be read as a standalone, but I think is much more enjoyable as part of this series order.

Chase, the camera guy on the Fixer Brothers reality TV show has a favorite adult content creator.  When he shows up at the latest job for Fixer Brothers, he realizes immediately that the client Adam Richardson is that guy!  Awkward!  He can tell Adam is a bit shy and socially awkward which honestly endears him even more to Chase.  So he does his job, helps Adam feel comfortable and gets on with his job while also encouraging Adam’s online persona as well.

They get to be somewhat friendly and Adam shares some of his life.  One evening he discovers – just as Chase is about to confess – that Chase is the guy who has been messaging him.  Uh oh.  Chase is very kind and careful and encouraging though.  He tells Adam that it’s Ok and he even volunteers to help him with his content.  Adam has a minimletdown but in the end they work it out.

The begin spending more time together and while both are developing feelings, they are reluctant to share.  Chase because he’s alway been left – told he’s not boyfriend material.  Adam because he can’t understand why a guy as gorgeous and sexy and experienced as Chase would want a gay virgin like him.  He’s got long standing social anxiety issues as well, so they both have things to overcome.   But the closer they become and the better friends they become, the harder it is to see this is as just sex.  Who will crack first though and put his heart out there?  You’ll have to read to find out 🙂

This book.  Gah – so much in all the feals.  Chase has been a good time guy – like people what him for sex, but nobody sticks around for him.  He’s “too much” for people or “too intense” and ended up being rejected by people he’d dated.  He’s not willing to even risk trying a relationship calling himself “emotionally unavailable” and not interested in anything serious.  Put to point, he does not consider himself to be relationship material because that’s what he’s been told over and over.  But Adam sees something more. When Adam realizes it’s Chase who has been messaging him on his OnlyShots content videos, it could have gone so very very wrong.  It’s only because of who Chase really is and how much he really does care about Adam that things begin to change between them.   And the more time they spend together, the more he realizes that maybe he DOES want something more than to pop his gay cherry.  Maybe he does want a relationship.  But he wants it with Chase, the guy who has been so understanding and caring and has done his best to work with Adam on social anxiety and make him feel mort comfortable with people.  Adam really comes out of his shell and is able to do better at his work and his personal life because of Chase’s support and encouragement.  Adam really wants Chase to see himself in a new light too – the one that Adam sees: the fierce, funny, competent, sexy, fun and loving person that he is.  Chase is afraid because he’s been burned but Adam is there to convince him that it’s time.  Time to forge a new path for himself and let himself be loved for the man he has become.  This romance was soooo sweet and Adam and Chase both deserve this HEA.  Highly recommended.

RATING: 

BUY LINKS:

Amazon