Reviewed by Cindy

TITLE: The Husband Experience

SERIES: Sweet Southern Book 1

AUTHOR: Maya Jean

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 152 Pages

RELEASE DATE: May 1st, 2024

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Elijah

Being a fake boyfriend is usually pretty easy. My part time job slots perfectly into my schedule as I pursue my PhD. But when the agency sends me on a week-long vacation to play husband … I don’t expect the experience to feel the opposite of fake. Colby Smith is everything I never knew I needed. He’s sweet, he even blushes, but in the bedroom, he calls all the shots. This experience is supposed to be for him, but as time goes on, I think it’s starting to be real for me.

Colby

After losing my husband, my cousin recommended I reach out to The Boyfriend Experience to get back in the saddle, so to speak. I asked for a husband for a week and they sure delivered. Elijah Ruiz is wild, in a way that shakes my world to the core. But after a week of tender touches, of breathtaking smiles, I start to wonder if it’s really all an act. Can we make this something real after only a week of playing pretend?

The Husband Experience is the 37k novella that starts the Sweet Southern series. It features a professional fake boyfriend, a ready for love again widower, an age gap, fake husbands for a week by the beach, lots of swoon and emotional steam.

REVIEW:

I fell in love with Colby and Elijah from the start.

Colby is sweet and loving and a definite nurturer and caregiver. Losing his husband really broke his heart but he knows that he can’t live alone forever. His husband wouldn’t have wanted that for him at all.

Elijah wasn’t sure that love was real. He sure doesn’t think that he’s worth loving, especially from someone like Colby. He’s also pretty sure that it took about an hour to fall head over heels for the kind, sexy man.

I loved the relationship between these two men. Their chemistry is so off the charts, it’s unreal. I’m not sure I believe in love at first sight but Colby and Elijah might have changed my mind a little. It really didn’t take long for the pretending to move on to something so much more.

The sex in this story is so damn hot and absolutely appropriate. It is a large part of their dynamic at the beginning but it wasn’t everything.

Elijah’s lack of self esteem is really hard to see. He’s so determined that he’s not enough for Colby, no matter how much Colby tries to show him it’s not true.

Colby has his own reservations and it has more to do with wondering if it’s too soon for something real to come back into his life.

There were no big twists or surprises in the story but that’s okay. Sometimes knowing that the two men you have fallen for are going to have a lovely happily-ever-after is exactly what you need.

This author does great character building and creates personalities that are endearing and entertaining. I can’t wait to read the next book in this series.

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